Unlike the other neighboring countries accepting Syrian refugees — like Turkey and Jordan — there are no official refugee camps in Lebanon.
“We often say that camps are sometimes easy to put up but more difficult to take down,” said Ninette Kelley, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) representative in Lebanon.
Instead, the displaced live among the local population and shoulder the costs of food and housing. They’ve flocked to some of the country’s poorest areas, where they compete with local Lebanese for jobs and resources.
Across the country, stories swirl of violence between Lebanese and Syrians.
Fayyad Haydar is the mayor of Qab Elias, a pretty town tucked between sloping mountains and the rich farmlands of the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon.
Before the war in Syria, 50,000 Lebanese lived here. Now, the community hosts more than 18,000 Syrian refugees, he says.
On the outskirts of town, tent settlements of Syrian communities have sprung up. Many others settle into apartments in the town center.
“We welcomed them in the beginning,” Muntaha Deeb, a Sunni Muslim woman from Qab Elias, said of her new Syrian neighbors. “But they made us hate them.”
The mother of a disabled child, Deeb says aid organizations that used to support Lebanese in need now provide for Syrians instead. Deeb says Lebanese sometimes gather at aid distribution centers to hurl abuse at refugees, picking fights.
Her sister Najat Mehri, a cleaner, said the arrival of so many Syrians has made it more difficult to find work.
“We should find a solution to kick them out of here, because their dirt is reaching us. They are not clean,” Deeb said. “I would not hesitate to carry arms and shoot them like Bashar [al-Assad, the Syrian president] is doing.”
So,no love for your Muslim brothers and sisters? No one Ummah under the banner of Islam? Syrians go home and fight for your own damn country,instead of burdening the whole fucking world. Get it through your thick heads,no country in the world wants you!!!!!
Full story http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/syria/130830/syrian-refugees-lebanon-sectarian-us-military-strikes-assad
Full story http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/syria/130830/syrian-refugees-lebanon-sectarian-us-military-strikes-assad
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