Middle East: Complex Emergency

Across the Middle East, millions of people — including children, the elderly, and families torn apart by conflict — have lost their homes, their access to food, clean water, and medical care. Red Cross and Red Crescent teams in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt are already on the ground providing emergency healthcare, shelter, and essential supplies, and are preparing to scale up as needs grow.

Top left: Egyptian Red Crescent volunteers responding to the floods in Aswan in southern Egypt. Top right: Jordan Red Crescent volunteers working to to register all refugees living outside the camps in order to distribute aid effectively and fairly in 2021., bottom left: Lebanese Red Cross volunteers distributing blankets and hygiene kits to 250 families at the a distribution point in Tripoli in Northern Lebanon. bottom right: Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteers unload food, shelter items, hygiene kits.

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