Monday, November 18, 2013. The Lebanese state continues to shrink from its
responsibilities as the war in Syria destroyed the lives of Syrians and
Lebanese.
http://www.lebanese-transparent-democracy.org/en/13enL/en-actu-131118.htm
Monday, November 18, 2013. The Lebanese state continues to shrink from its
responsibilities as the war in Syria destroyed the lives of Syrians and
Lebanese.
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The Syrian exodus to ARSAL, east of the Bekaa, is just one step further bringing
about a million Syrian refugees in Lebanon. You can not refuse them for
humanitarian reasons. They need to shelter and feed them. We need to organize
urgent ways and adapted actions to rescue them.
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But we must also seek responsibilities and responsibles, upstream, having caused
these damages. The Lebanese state can not continue to pretend to be neutral
between the killers and victims. The Lebanese state has no right letting
Lebanese to go in Syria for militarily support of a terrorist regime, and making
no action to prevent them from committing these crimes.
<<Thousands of Syrian refugees flocked to the Bekaa Valley town of Arsal
over the weekend to escape an expected regime-led offensive in a key
town in the adjacent Qalamoun mountains, as locals feared for the
humanitarian conditions of the new arrivals. The Social Affairs Ministry
said Sunday that over 500 Syrian families had crossed to Arsal, east
Lebanon, in the past few hours, bringing the total number of Syrian
families residing in Arsal to 1,700 .
Until an official center is ready to temporarily house the new refugees,
the ministry said that 350 families had been taken to specific areas,
with 100 in makeshift housing and the rest put up in homes.
The Social Affairs Ministry also said its teams had registered 924
Syrian refugees who flocked to the village of Shebaa in south Lebanon
starting on Oct. 30 .
The statement said that up until now, refugees in Shebaa were staying in
homes with host families.
"The municipality opened Al-Mukhtar wedding halls and the town's mosques
to receive the refugees," Fliti said.
He added that around 150 families were staying at every mosque, but said
that some refugees unable to find accommodations were staying outdoors
Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2013/Nov-18/238152-looming-battle-drives-thousands-of-syrians-to-arsal.ashx#ixzz2kzD1kbBs
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)
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