Delivering help to Palestinian refugees is harder than ever due to fragile relations with host countries, a volatile conflict, and funding cuts, said veteran German humanitarian Dorothée Klaus, who is director of the UN relief agency in Lebanon.
“The US alone has already spent more money on this conflict in the last two and a half weeks than the $23bn (€19.9bn) I need to save 87 million lives this year,” said Tom Fletcher, a senior official at the United Nations.
The ex-ministers, ambassadors, and diplomats accuse French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot of spreading disinformation and called for a correction of his comments about UN rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese.
The United Nations faces financial collapse in July, said Annalena Baerbock, the German former foreign minister who now presides over the UN general assembly.