Your head of humanitarian affairs UN Martin Griffiths said today that expresses concern about the possible spread of the war in Gaza throughout the region, including the West Bank, despite humanitarian agencies being adequately prepared for this eventuality.
The UN official warned that a spread in Lebanon, of Israel’s war against Hamas at the Gaza stripit will be “possibly an apocalypse scenario”.
“I see this as the spark that will ignite… (the tension). It will potentially be an apocalypse scenario,” Martin Griffiths, whose term ends at the end of the month, warned reporters in Geneva.
The possible consequences are “unpredictable,” he added.
A conflict involving Lebanon “will hit Syria…it will also hit other” territories in the region, he said.
“This will obviously have consequences in Gaza and will obviously have an impact on the West Bank,” he said. “It’s very worrying.”
Since the war in Gaza broke out nine months ago, “it has shown us a new level of tragedy and brutality”, he added.
“However, we all feared that this could be the beginning”.
The war in the Gaza Strip, which erupted after Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, has led to violent incidents on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, where there are almost daily exchanges of fire between Hezbollah, an ally of Palestinian Islamic movement, and the Israeli army.
The West Bank, where the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority exercises limited rule under Israeli occupation, has already seen its worst unrest in decades, along with war in Gaza, a territory controlled by Hamas.
Hezbollah opened the front with Lebanon in a show of support for Hamas a day after the Palestinian movement’s Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel killed 1,195 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP count based on official figures. Israelis.
Of the 251 people kidnapped during the attack, 116 are still being held hostage, of which 42 are dead, according to the military.
In retaliation, Israel launched an attack on the Gaza Strip, which has so far killed 37,718 people, most of them civilians, according to data from the Ministry of Health of the Hamas-controlled government.
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