UN’s Lebanon envoy says fighting puts Mideast on brink of ‘catastrophe’

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli strike that targeted the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Zibqin on September 22, 2024.  (Kawnat Haju / AFP)
Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli strike that targeted the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Zibqin on September 22, 2024. (Kawnat Haju / AFP)

The United Nations special coordinator for Lebanon warns of an “imminent catastrophe” in the Middle East amid spiking violence between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, saying a military solution was not the answer.

“With the region on the brink of an imminent catastrophe, it cannot be overstated enough: there is NO military solution that will make either side safer,” special coordinator Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert says in a statement on X.

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