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Lebanon at real risk of ‘humanitarian catastrophe,’ UN refugee agency says
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United Nations humanitarian aid parcels are unloaded in the Christian border village of Qlayaa in south-eastern Lebanon on March 27, 2026. (AFP)
Nearly a month into the Middle East war, Lebanon is facing a deepening humanitarian crisis that now risks teetering over into a catastrophe, the UN refugee agency warns.
Since March 2, more than a million people — one in five residents — have been forced to flee their homes, said the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
“The situation remains extremely worrying and the risk of a humanitarian catastrophe… is real,” Karolina Lindholm Billing, the agency’s representative in Lebanon, tells reporters in Geneva, speaking from Beirut.
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