oPt: Overlapping emergencies deepen humanitarian health needs across the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Countries: occupied Palestinian territory, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic Source: World Health Organization Cairo, 14 October 2026 – Member States gathered at the 73rd session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean (RC73) amid an increasingly complex humanitarian landscape, with 117 million people across the Region requiring humanitarian assistance as conflicts, disease outbreaks, displacement and food insecurity place growing