Europe on ‘brink of humanitarian crisis’ as NATO warns of terror infiltrators

The United Nations has warned that Europe is on the brink of a “self-induced humanitarian crisis” caused by the build-up of migrants and refugees on Greece’s border with Macedonia. Food, water and shelter are in short supply for the rising number of families gathering at the border between the two countries. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says better planning and more accommodation must be provided for some 24,000 people who are stuck in Greece.

As we all saw, tensions have been building, fuelling violence and playing into the hands of people smugglers.

UN refugee agency spokesman Adrian Edwards

Army trucks have been stationed at a railway line near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija in anticipation of more trouble after hundreds stormed the border - prompting police to fire tear gas as several migrants were nearly trampled and one officer injured. Near Idomeni on the Greek-Macedonian border itself a tent city has grown, leading to anger among those trapped there. The daily influx is also being used as a cover for terrorists to get into Europe, NATO’s top commander US Air Force General Philip Breedlove said. "This criminality, the terrorists, and the returning foreign fighters are clearly a daily part of the refugee flow in Europe,“ he said.

Macedonian police put us here, the Greeks don’t want us back.

Yase Qued, a 16-year-old from Afghanistan

EU migrants