UN: Hormuz closure causing ‘impossible choices’ for aid delivery
6/2/2026 6:07:55 PM
Even if the Middle East war stopped immediately, disrupted global humanitarian supply lines would not recover before 2027, the United Nations says.
Nearly 100 days on from the February 28 US-Israeli attacks on Iran that triggered the conflict, the fallout extends far beyond the Middle East region, said Jean-Cedric Meeus, chief of global transport and logistics for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
“The disruption to the global humanitarian supply chain is impacting children across all the globe with continued congestion in global supply chain routes and higher costs,” he told a press conference in Geneva.
“What begins like a disruption from lanes into the Middle East, the Hormuz Strait, spirals directly into humanitarian crisis. For UNICEF, persistent delays and high operational costs, when they come into the context of global funding crisis, are already causing impossible choices.”
Meeus said even “if we come to an agreement and the Strait of Hormuz is reopened, the situation will not improve before the end of the year” for UNICEF’s supply lines.
Nearly 100 days on from the February 28 US-Israeli attacks on Iran that triggered the conflict, the fallout extends far beyond the Middle East region, said Jean-Cedric Meeus, chief of global transport and logistics for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
“The disruption to the global humanitarian supply chain is impacting children across all the globe with continued congestion in global supply chain routes and higher costs,” he told a press conference in Geneva.
“What begins like a disruption from lanes into the Middle East, the Hormuz Strait, spirals directly into humanitarian crisis. For UNICEF, persistent delays and high operational costs, when they come into the context of global funding crisis, are already causing impossible choices.”
Meeus said even “if we come to an agreement and the Strait of Hormuz is reopened, the situation will not improve before the end of the year” for UNICEF’s supply lines.