UN warns global aid at risk as Middle East war spreads

GENEVA, March 11 (Reuters) – The United Nations aid chief warned on Wednesday that the conflict in the Middle East is straining humanitarian operations worldwide, ​disrupting supply chains and slowing the delivery of life‑saving assistance ‌to numerous crisis zones.

“We are in a moment of grave peril for the Middle East and, actually I believe, for the wider world,” Tom Fletcher, the U.N. aid ​chief, told Reuters.