UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator on Haiti Humanitarian Situation

The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Haiti, told reporters in New York that the situation is “strikingly horrific” in the country’s capital Port-au-Price with “3,000 people having been killed in gang related incidents since the beginning of the year.”

She also said, “They have 1.3 million people displaced currently, as a result of the gang violence, as the gangs have sort of rummaged the city. And half of them are children,” noting that 2 million people are in IPC four, meaning at an emergency level of food insecurity.