Date: March 6th, 2026 6:24 AM Author: UN peacekeeper
The U.N. human rights chief, Volker Türk, called Friday for restraint, de-escalation and a return to negotiations to contain the fighting in the Middle East. “It’s uncontrollable, it’s chaos, it’s disarray, disorder and the world absolutely cannot afford it,” he said urging government leaders to defend international law and the U.N. charter. In particular, he pointed to Israel’s mass displacement orders affecting hundreds of thousands of people in southern Lebanon and called for an investigation into the deadly strike by the U.S. on a school in southern Iran.