(Photo: AFP)GENEVA - Nearly a month into the Middle East war, Lebanon is facing a deepening humanitarian crisis that now risks teetering over into a catastrophe, the United Nations refugee agency warned Friday. With the numbers continuing to rise, “it is really a deepening humanitarian crisis that we here on the ground are seeing in Lebanon,” said Karolina Lindholm Billing, the agency’s representative in the country. “The situation remains extremely worrying and the risk of a humanitarian catastrophe … is real,” she told reporters in Geneva, speaking from Beirut. UNHCR is appealing for more than $60 million to scale up its response, and warned that needs were rising faster than resources. “Lebanon was already facing multiple crises, and this massive displacement is adding immense pressure on families and services,” Lindholm Billing said.

Source: Bangkok Post March 27, 2026 14:13 UTC