IOM Director General calls Israeli ground operation in Rafah “unbearable”. Amy Pope, Executive Director of the United Nations' International Organization for Migration (IOM), visited Japan and gave an interview to NHK on the 27th.

Pope first talked about the situation in the Palestinian Gaza Strip, saying, ``The situation is critical, with an unprecedented scale of migration occurring in an extremely small area'' "This is a completely intolerable situation," he said, expressing strong concern.