Syrian refugees in Lebanon number more than 1 million

[al-Hasani]

Syrian refugees who fled the violence from the Syrian town of Flita, near Yabroud, pose for a photograph at the border town of Arsal, in the eastern Bekaa Valley March. (File photo: Reuters)
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By Staff writer | Al Arabiya News
Thursday, 3 April 2014

The number of Syrians registered as refugees in Lebanon after fleeing war in their country has surpassed one million, Agence France-Presse reported the U.N. refugee agency as saying on Thursday.

Refugees from Syria now equal a quarter of Lebanon’s resident population, the UNHCR said, describing the figure as “a devastating milestone worsened by rapidly depleting resources and a host community stretched to breaking point.”

Tiny Lebanon has now become the country with “the highest per capita concentration of refugees worldwide,” said the UNHCR, adding that is “struggling to keep pace.”

“The influx of a million refugees would be massive in any country. For Lebanon, a small nation beset by internal difficulties, the impact is staggering,” UNHCR chief Antonio Guterres said in a statement.

School-aged refugees eclipse the number of Lebanese children in the country's state schools, the U.N. says, and 2,500 new refugees are registered every day.

“The extent of the human tragedy is not just the recitation of numbers,” Reuters quoted UNHCR representative Ninette Kelley as telling reporters in Tripoli. “Each one of these numbers represents a human life who ... have lost their homes, their family members, their sense of future.”

Syrians have also fled to Turkey, Iraq, Jordan and Egypt, and the official total of 2.6 million refugees - which understates the scale of the exodus - means Syrians will soon overtake Afghans as the world’s biggest refugee population.

Many millions more have been displaced inside Syria, and the pace has only accelerated in the last 12 months.

Syria’s three-year civil war has killed more than 150,000 people, a third of them civilians, and caused millions to flee.

Rebels accused of planning gas

In a related story, Syria is charging in a letter to the United Nations that opposition groups are planning a toxic gas attack in a rebel-held area near Damascus so they can then blame it on government security forces, Reuters reported.

In a letter dated March 25 and circulated by the U.N. this week, Syria’s U.N. envoy, Bashar Jaafari, said his government had intercepted communications between “terrorists” that showed a man named Abu Nadir was secretly distributing gas masks in the rebel-held Jobar area.

“The authorities also intercepted another communication between two other terrorists, one of whom is named Abu Jihad,” Reuters quoted Jaafari as saying.

“In that communication, Abu Jihad indicates that toxic gas will be used and asked those who are working with him to supply protective masks.”

Jaafari said in the letter addressed to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the U.N. Security Council that this information “confirms that armed terrorist groups are preparing to use toxic gas in Jobar quarter and other areas, in order to accuse the Syrian government of having committed such an act of terrorism.”

A senior Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said of the Syrian intelligence: “I don’t give any credence to that.”

A United Nations inquiry found in December that sarin gas had likely been used in Jobar in August and also in several other locations, including in the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Ghouta, where hundreds of people were killed.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad agreed to destroy his chemical weapons following global outrage over the large-scale sarin gas attack in Ghouta in August.

Meanwhile, Syria to agree to a new timetable to remove its chemical weapons by late April.

In a separate letter to Ban and the Security Council, Syria’s Ja’afari also warned that “armed terrorist groups continue to threaten and carry out terrorist attacks against chemical weapons facilities and the chemical substances.”

The senior Western diplomat said: “I don’t think there’s any evidence that any of the groups have any interest in attacking the convoys ... we don't see that as a major risk.”

(With Reuters and AFP)

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/New...-refugees-in-Lebanon-more-than-1-million.html

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"Thank you Al-Asshead, Russia and Iran, Lebanon said."

God bless our brothers and sisters in beautiful Lebanon.

 

[Imran Khan]

they can blame themselves . there are many good ways to change gov but Syrian gov and people choose worse on .

 

[al-Hasani]

they can blame themselves . there are many good ways to change gov but Syrian gov and people choose worse on .

How are they to blame, Imran? For defending themselves against murder and carpet bombing? For not wanting to live under oppression and isolation?

More importantly most of the civilians have and have not had anything to do with the conflict. Why are they to blame?

The reality is that you have an bloodthirsty Ba'athi dictator that is totally disconnected from reality (for instance he still thinks that he is the legitimate "president" and that he has done nothing wrong) and who is willing to do everything to stay in power. That includes using chemical weapons on the civilian population, barrel bombing hundreds of villages and main towns etc. and killing civilians in the thousands indiscriminately and systematically.

I am not saying that the Syrian Opposition has not done crimes. For instance the ISIS retards but unlike Al-Asshead they are not ruling the country or the president of Syria.

Al-Asshaed has been condemned as a war criminal in the Arab League and the UN for a reason.

If he was brought to justice right now while we speak he would be trialled as nothing more than a war criminal.

 

[Cheetah786]

Syrian refugees who fled the violence from the Syrian town of Flita, near Yabroud, pose for a photograph at the border town of Arsal, in the eastern Bekaa Valley March. (File photo: Reuters)
​

By Staff writer | Al Arabiya News
Thursday, 3 April 2014

The number of Syrians registered as refugees in Lebanon after fleeing war in their country has surpassed one million, Agence France-Presse reported the U.N. refugee agency as saying on Thursday.

Refugees from Syria now equal a quarter of Lebanon’s resident population, the UNHCR said, describing the figure as “a devastating milestone worsened by rapidly depleting resources and a host community stretched to breaking point.”

Tiny Lebanon has now become the country with “the highest per capita concentration of refugees worldwide,” said the UNHCR, adding that is “struggling to keep pace.”

“The influx of a million refugees would be massive in any country. For Lebanon, a small nation beset by internal difficulties, the impact is staggering,” UNHCR chief Antonio Guterres said in a statement.

School-aged refugees eclipse the number of Lebanese children in the country's state schools, the U.N. says, and 2,500 new refugees are registered every day.

“The extent of the human tragedy is not just the recitation of numbers,” Reuters quoted UNHCR representative Ninette Kelley as telling reporters in Tripoli. “Each one of these numbers represents a human life who ... have lost their homes, their family members, their sense of future.”

Syrians have also fled to Turkey, Iraq, Jordan and Egypt, and the official total of 2.6 million refugees - which understates the scale of the exodus - means Syrians will soon overtake Afghans as the world’s biggest refugee population.

Many millions more have been displaced inside Syria, and the pace has only accelerated in the last 12 months.

Syria’s three-year civil war has killed more than 150,000 people, a third of them civilians, and caused millions to flee.

Rebels accused of planning gas

In a related story, Syria is charging in a letter to the United Nations that opposition groups are planning a toxic gas attack in a rebel-held area near Damascus so they can then blame it on government security forces, Reuters reported.

In a letter dated March 25 and circulated by the U.N. this week, Syria’s U.N. envoy, Bashar Jaafari, said his government had intercepted communications between “terrorists” that showed a man named Abu Nadir was secretly distributing gas masks in the rebel-held Jobar area.

“The authorities also intercepted another communication between two other terrorists, one of whom is named Abu Jihad,” Reuters quoted Jaafari as saying.

“In that communication, Abu Jihad indicates that toxic gas will be used and asked those who are working with him to supply protective masks.”

Jaafari said in the letter addressed to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the U.N. Security Council that this information “confirms that armed terrorist groups are preparing to use toxic gas in Jobar quarter and other areas, in order to accuse the Syrian government of having committed such an act of terrorism.”

A senior Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said of the Syrian intelligence: “I don’t give any credence to that.”

A United Nations inquiry found in December that sarin gas had likely been used in Jobar in August and also in several other locations, including in the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Ghouta, where hundreds of people were killed.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad agreed to destroy his chemical weapons following global outrage over the large-scale sarin gas attack in Ghouta in August.

Meanwhile, Syria to agree to a new timetable to remove its chemical weapons by late April.

In a separate letter to Ban and the Security Council, Syria’s Ja’afari also warned that “armed terrorist groups continue to threaten and carry out terrorist attacks against chemical weapons facilities and the chemical substances.”

The senior Western diplomat said: “I don’t think there’s any evidence that any of the groups have any interest in attacking the convoys ... we don't see that as a major risk.”

(With Reuters and AFP)

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/New...-refugees-in-Lebanon-more-than-1-million.html

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"Thank you Al-Asshead, Russia and Iran, Lebanon said."

God bless our brothers and sisters in beautiful Lebanon.

1)IRAN AND RUSSIA BEAT SAUDI TERRORIST IN SYRIA BILLIONS/YEAR
2)SAUDI TERRORIST BLAME THE WORLD FOR HELPING THE VICTIMS PRICELESS


FINALLY
Thank you HOUSE of Saud FOR Every terrorist victim Around the world.

AND NOW WE CONTINUE WITH AL-HASANIS USUAL JIBRISH

 

[al-Hasani]

1)IRAN AND RUSSIA BEAT SAUDI TERRORIST IN SYRIA BILLIONS/YEAR
2)SAUDI TERRORIST BLAME THE WORLD FOR HELPING THE VICTIMS PRICELESS


FINALLY
Thank you HOUSE of Saud FOR Every terrorist victim Around the world say

Go to sleep Mullah and worry about issues that are of a concern for you. Such as pleasing the fake wannabe Arab Mullah's that you adore and are a loyal servant of. Issues in the Arab world are none of your concern. The last thing we need are more Shia terrorist and Child-Murderer supporters from abroad.

 

[Imran Khan]

How are they to blame, Imran? For defending themselves against murder and carpet bombing? For not wanting to live under oppression and isolation?

More importantly most of the civilians have and have not had anything to do with the conflict. Why are they to blame?

The reality is that you have an bloodthirsty Ba'athi dictator that is totally disconnected from reality (for instance he still thinks that he is the legitimate "president" and that he has done nothing wrong) and who is willing to do everything to stay in power. That includes using chemical weapons on the civilian population, barrel bombing hundreds of villages and main towns etc. and killing civilians in the thousands indiscriminately and systematically.

brother i am talking abut start now its look like mixed dish you can't divide it or blame one side . TBH is was bad start and we all know it.they were too late too much they should do it on 1971 when hafiz was installed . now after 50 years roots of this tree are very deep they need to carefully cut it but they didn't now alqaida taliban and many uncountable groups entered in game international politics and parties also in game its now not civil war but a play ground of international players . they handed over their nice country first to bishar family 50 years and now terrorists and world powers for god knows how many more decades .

for me i just remember these days bro

 

[Al Bhatti]

they can blame themselves . there are many good ways to change gov but Syrian gov and people choose worse on .

Going as per your logic these useless politicians and rulers will not leave unless they die and that also after ensuring that their family get a fair chance to be in politics after them. It is a family business for them not a national issue.

Change has to come by force and i wish in Pakistan the whole nation realize their mistake and get to the streets and drag each and very politician from the parliament and lynch them so that their relatives and next generation will see with their eyes that playing with a nation is not safe.

All Pakistanis should join in front of the parliament and in front of their residences and give an ultimatum to either implement the constitution or face the worse.

If this does not happen, Pakistan will be what it is now for at least the next 70 years.

brother i am talking abut start now its look like mixed dish you can't divide it or blame one side . TBH is was bad start and we all know it.they were too late too much they should do it on 1971 when hafiz was installed . now after 50 years roots of this tree are very deep they need to carefully cut it but they didn't now alqaida taliban and many uncountable groups entered in game international politics and parties also in game its now not civil war but a play ground of international players . they handed over their nice country first to bishar family 50 years and now terrorists and world powers for god knows how many more decades .

for me i just remember these days bro

Had he stepped down or made measures long before this would not have happened.

 

[Cheetah786]

Go to sleep Mullah and worry about issues that are of a concern for you. Such as pleasing the fake wannabe Arab Mullah's that you adore and are a loyal servant of. Issues in the Arab world are none of your concern. The last thing we need are more Shia terrorist and Child-Murderer supporters from abroad.

OH MY GOD ARAB HAS LEARNED A NEW WORD ''FAKE WANNA BE ARAB MULLAH''. we call them Wahhabi or paudies in pakistan.

L O L this is a pakistani forum, oh now i will have to explain what a forum is to you. Just ask the Westerner typing on your behalf to explain it you what a pakistani forum means.

 

[Imran Khan]

Going as per your logic these useless politicians and rulers will not leave unless they die and that also after ensuring that their family get a fair chance to be in politics after them. It is a family business for them not a national issue.

Change has to come by force and i wish in Pakistan the whole nation realize their mistake and get to the streets and drag each and very politician from the parliament and lynch them so that their relatives and next generation will see with their eyes that playing with a nation is not safe.

All Pakistanis should join in front of the parliament and in front of their residences and give an ultimatum to either implement the constitution or face the worse.

If this does not happen, Pakistan will be what it is now for at least the next 70 years.

bhai you love so much civil war asking for drag on street is ok but livin in syria is hard can you move few weeks to afghanistan or syria under rebels area ? sitting in home typing with nice keyboards and having coffee on table while kids play outside in garden and wife cooking biryani in kitchen is so much easy but living some 50km from kabul or humus is really not good idea . let us live i peace even under a jew or obama .

 

[Cheetah786]

Going as per your logic these useless politicians and rulers will not leave unless they die and that also after ensuring that their family get a fair chance to be in politics after them. It is a family business for them not a national issue.

Change has to come by force and i wish in Pakistan the whole nation realize their mistake and get to the streets and drag each and very politician from the parliament and lynch them so that their relatives and next generation will see with their eyes that playing with a nation is not safe.

All Pakistanis should join in front of the parliament and in front of their residences and give an ultimatum to either implement the constitution or face the worse.

If this does not happen, Pakistan will be what it is now for at least the next 70 years.



Had he stepped down or made measures long before this would not have happened.

Had the pakistani government surrendered long time ago to terrorist as they are now we wouldn't had 1000s of terrorism victims now. Is that what you are saying

 

[al-Hasani]

@Cheetah786

Pakistani forum or not your opinion is that of an outsider and an unwanted element as the Shia terrorist supporter that you are.

Another supporter of a Child-Murderer and war criminal is the last thing this thread needs.

Stop derailing the thread.

 

[Imran Khan]

Had he stepped down or made measures long before this would not have happened.

still i am out we must not be or no one face what they face for change . change can be done with peace education and awareness also

 

[Cheetah786]

@Cheetah786

Pakistani forum or not your opinion is that of an outsider and an unwanted element as the Shia terrorist supporter that you are.

OH i give up can some one please explain it to him what a public forum is?

Not all Wahhabi are terrorist but all terrorist are Wahhabi

Now run to Mods and ask for this thread to be closed as you cant carry on a conversation without attacking and barking

 

[Al Bhatti]

Had the pakistani government surrendered long time ago to terrorist as they are now we wouldn't had 1000s of terrorism victims now. Is that what you are saying

Had the Pakistani politicians ensured that all citizens receive quality education, health care and all basic rights as per the constitution nothing more, we would not be in the situation we are now.

But the citizens are the politicians only.

 

[Cheetah786]

Had the Pakistani politicians ensured that all citizens receive quality education, health care and all basic rights as per the constitution nothing more, we would not be in the situation we are now.

But the citizens are the politicians only.

I couldn't agree more.