U.N. warns of 'unprecedented' humanitarian crisis for 20,000 seafarers stranded in Persian Gulf

Approximately 20,000 maritime workers are stranded in dangerous conditions with limited access to supplies, medical care, and safe passage.

In the narrow waters of the Persian Gulf, twenty thousand ordinary workers — engineers, cooks, deck hands — find themselves imprisoned not by any crime of their own, but by the collision of great powers. The United Nations has raised an alarm that few have paused to hear: that the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most consequential maritime chokepoint, has become a trap with no exit. The International Maritime Organization's secretary-general calls the situation unprecedented, a word chosen carefully by those who have seen much — and a signal that the human cost of geopolitical conflict has once

U.N. warns of 'unprecedented' humanitarian crisis for 20,000 seafarers stranded in Persian Gulf

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