United Nations refugee chief Barham Salih has called on the international community to provide urgent support to Lebanon, with a fifth of the country’s population displaced by the war, AFP reports.

“I call upon the international community to provide urgent support and relief to Lebanon,” he said after meeting Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam.

“The humanitarian consequences of this war are immense, and I emphasise the need to spare civilians and civilian infrastructure from the ravages of attack. Lebanon does not deserve to be trapped in a recurring cycle of violence, it deserves support and stability.”

He added that UNHCR has received “a portion” of the $61 million it had appealed for during the war to support Lebanon in its “unprecedented” displacement crisis, as more than a million people, or a fifth of the Lebanese population, are displaced by the conflict.