The Escalation of Hostilities in the oPt Flash Appeal 2026 seeks $4,064,305,808 for 2,970,096 people — 2,100,000 of them in the Gaza Strip and 870,096 in the West Bank including East Jerusalem. That is $1,368.41 for each person targeted, the highest of the 34 costed plans in this year’s Global Humanitarian Overview. Ukraine is next at $559.36, then the Venezuela regional plan at $500.41 and Lebanon at $460.34. It is 7.6 times Yemen’s $180.15, even though Yemen targets four times as many people.
Neither the UN’s financial tracking service nor the Global Humanitarian Overview publishes a per-person figure; requirements and caseloads sit in separate places and the division is left to the reader. The oPt requirement is 11.66 per cent of the $34.87 billion now sought across all 34 plans, a total that has risen from the $33 billion announced when the overview launched in December as individual plans were revised.
It is not a 2026 development. The same appeal was the most expensive per targeted person in 2025 as well, at $1,339.55 against $740.52 for the next plan, across 45 plans that year. Six of this year’s 34 run for less than a full year; annualising each by its own start and end dates leaves the ranking’s top place unchanged. The caveat that matters is the unit: “targeted” is set plan by plan against very different assumptions about what a targeted person receives, so the figure compares budgets per intended recipient rather than aid per head.