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UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi said an Israeli air strike hit "humanitarian structures" Saturday at a border crossing between Lebanon and Syria that was previously hit last month. The crossing ...
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan. 23 (UPI) --U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi called Thursday for cooperation between Syria's new authorities, host countries and donors to secure the return ...
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has just returned from a trip to Lebanon and Syria, bringing CNN’s Becky Anderson first-hand accounts from the people forced to flee for their ...
T he United Nations' refugee chief Filippo Grandi said on Sunday that airstrikes in Lebanon had violated international humanitarian law by hitting civilian infrastructure and killing civilians, in ...
More than 250,000 people have crossed into Syria since the escalation of the conflict in Lebanon began two weeks ago. Seventy per cent of them are Syrians who had sought safety in Lebanon. UN High ...
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said Thursday that the international community and financial institutions must support efforts to secure the safe return of Syrian refugees to ...
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, left, meets with Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, at the government palace in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, June 19, 2025.
Many displaced families are now living in 900 temporary shelters opened by the authorities in schools and other public buildings. At one school housing 1,200 people in the capital Beirut, displaced ...
Filippo Grandi when he was still head of UNRWA, an agency invested in keeping the ‘Palestinians’ as permanent refugees, February 2, 2010. Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees ...
BEIRUT, Lebanon – At the end of a two-day visit to Lebanon, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi urged the international community to scale up its support to the Lebanese people and the ...
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi concluded a visit to Lebanon by calling on the international community to support the country in its hour of need, as it faces "an almost perfect storm ...
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan. 23 (UPI) --U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi called Thursday for cooperation between Syria's new authorities, host countries and donors to secure the return ...