Today's top news: Lebanon, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Cameroon

#Lebanon
OCHA says airstrikes continue in Lebanon, deepening the crisis in areas already grappling with the displacement of people.
According to Lebanese authorities, 1.2 million people have been displaced or otherwise directly affected by the crisis. The International Organization for Migration has identified nearly 780,000 displaced people and reports that more than 190,000 of them are now staying in over 1,000 shelters, mostly in Mount Lebanon Governorate and Beirut.
Preliminary assessments led by the Lebanese authorities indicate there are four times more displaced people living outside formal shelters, primarily from Dahiye, South Lebanon, Baalbeck and West Bekaa. Many of them are highly vulnerable and at risk of homelessness and precarious housing situations.
Following the deadly strikes on Nabatieh City, which hit the municipality on 16 October, local authorities report that more than 3,000 of the remaining 12,000 residents have now fled the district.
Meanwhile, the UN and humanitarian partners continue to support the response across the country.
Yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) delivered 35 tons of trauma supplies, treatments for acute malnutrition, and medicines for chronic diseases – enough to help 200,000 people. The supplies will be provided to priority referral hospitals identified by the Ministry of Public Health.
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has distributed more than 10,000 dignity kits to displaced women and girls in collective shelters across Beirut, Mount Lebanon, Akkar, the North, Bekaa and the South. During the distributions, UNFPA teams also provided psychological first aid and the referral of women and girls at risk of gender-based violence.
#Occupied Palestinian Territory
OCHA continues to sound the alarm about the increasingly dire and dangerous situation that civilians in northern Gaza are facing. Families there are trying to survive in atrocious conditions, under heavy bombardment.
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has now confirmed another attack on one of its schools in the north – the third such attack on the agency’s facilities this week alone. Scores of people who were sheltering there, including children, were reportedly killed when the UNRWA school in Jabalya was hit yesterday.
OCHA warns that the ongoing lack of access to the Jabalya area is having life-threatening impacts. Today, OCHA has submitted an urgent request for the Israeli authorities to facilitate the evacuation of a few dozen people reported to be alive and trapped under rubble. We are now awaiting the green light.
In previous instances, OCHA accompanied rescue teams whose access was facilitated too late, resulting in only dead bodies being recovered.
The UN and humanitarian partners also stand ready to provide fuel for essential operations like water pumping and medical equipment, and also to deliver much-needed food supplies in Jabalya and elsewhere.
No food supplies entered the north in early October, and the World Food Programme (WFP) was only able to reach about 100,000 people, given supply shortages, access restrictions, and ongoing fighting. On Tuesday, 12 trucks of wheat flour entered northern Gaza after two weeks of closed crossings, but those supplies were only enough for 9,200 families.
OCHA calls on the Israeli authorities to allow safe, rapid, sustained and unimpeded access to Jabalya and all areas of the north where people are in desperate need of assistance. Aid organizations must be allowed to carry out their life-saving work across the Strip.
In southern Gaza, WHO says its teams have been on the ground there, delivering supplies to health facilities before the second phase of the polio vaccination campaign starts in the south tomorrow.
The UN and partners aim to provide more than 293,000 children in southern Gaza with the second dose of the vaccine, and more than 284,000 with vitamin A supplements.
#Cameroon
The Acting Emergency Relief Coordinator, Joyce Msuya, has allocated US$4 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund to support the flood response in Cameroon.
The resources will support more than 200,000 vulnerable people in the departments of Logone-et-Chari and Mayo-Danai in the Far North region – the most affected by the floods – with health, shelter, food, water and sanitation assistance.
Since August this year, torrential rains in the Far North region have triggered floods affecting over 350,000 people. More than 50,000 homes and over 80,000 hectares of farmland have been damaged. Health centers and schools have also been impacted.