UN’s high commissioner for refugees

World is waiting for you to demand Gaza cease-fire, UN refugee chief tells Security Council

Will you allow the ‘jigsaw of war’ to be completed ‘by your disunity or by sheer neglect,’ or ‘will you take the courageous and necessary steps back from the abyss?’ asks Filipo Grandi
‘Humanitarians are tough,’ he says, but growing shortfalls in aid funding mean they are ‘near breaking point — and what will you be left with when they have to go?’

By Ephrem Kossaify · 31 October 2023