Plan to Set up Camps for Syrian Refugees in Lebanon Away from Border
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The director of UNHCR's Middle East and North Africa Bureau has said that the U.N. is discussing with Lebanese authorities the possibility of setting up camps for Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
An Nahar daily quoted Amin Awad as saying on Saturday that the proposal calls for establishing the camps in Lebanese territories away from the border with Syria and the dividing lines between the warring sides ... to limit the presence of refugees in several locations.”
Those camps would preserve their safety and help organizations deliver aid more easily to them, said Awad, who heads the U.N. refugee agency Syria response.
“There should be an international strategy to support the Lebanese state and the different organizations from donor countries,” he said, adding that it was up to the Lebanese authorities to specify the locations of the camps.
More than one million Syrians have registered as refugees in Lebanon after fleeing war in their country.
The conflict has killed more than 150,000 people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, while half of the population is estimated to have fled their homes.
In what An Nahar said was a sign that the U.N. had a long-term plan on housing the refugees in Lebanon, John Ging, the Director of Operations for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), urged the international community to rapidly provide financial assistance to Lebanon.
The Lebanese have helped the Syrian refugees and opened their doors to them, the newspaper quoted him as saying.
The assistance should be made to all of Lebanon and not just the Syrian refugees, he said.
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10 May 2014, 08:18
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Dear Amin Awad, we as Lebanese will never accept new camps in our country. We already had a 15 years civil war due to Palestinian camps. You should be ashamed to propose such ideas and Ban Kimoon must replace you Amin Awad because you have no clue of the Lebanese history nor politics.
What a sham that the UN nominates such un-professional staff employees such as Amin Awad who is clearly not competant
10 May 2014, 12:28
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damn UNHCR, a willing and active accomplice in human trafficking on a mega scale. Every effort should be made to be assist the Syrians to relocate back to Syria instead of establishing permanent camps else where.
10 May 2014, 12:34
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what is your point jb. _Karim makes a political statement and you reply with an idiotic sectarian comment. Are you that inferior to debate on here with out resorting to a weak sectarian mentality.
10 May 2014, 14:36
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No no and NO, no more camps for anyone in Lebanon. UN, go away to other countries, do not discuss with any Lebanese authority, we know that you can buy decisions with them, but we the people of Lebanon don't want anymore. We've been mentioning this for months now, that since the Syrian regime has now consolidated territory to itself, latest of which Homs, and the Syrian opposition too has territory under its control, let the Syrians who are in our territory go to those areas they support. We Lebanese are no longer capable of tolerating them Syrians of Palestinians, imagine the cockiness of groups of Syrians wondering around our country with luggage and mattresses in hand looking for lodging and aiming to take our jobs and businesses?! The patience of the Lebanese is being manifested daily now, let them go back home, or you ya UN find them other hosting lands, well away from Lebanon. We've paid the highest price ever.
10 May 2014, 16:32
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There is only one solution to this if you don't want to stay, there's nothing you can do about their camps. If you want them to go back, don't give them jobs!!
10 May 2014, 18:49
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A disaster. We already have Palestinian camps for displaced Palestinians from 1948, now this?? The Assad Regime was set up by Israel and now it acts like Israel by dumping those who are opposed to their rule in Lebanon and then not thinking about the welfare of those dumped but saddling them to Lebanon's back.
10 May 2014, 19:14
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if this happens, then we will have officially over 3 million sunnis in Lebanon. (that being Lebanese, Palestinians, and Syrian.
this will trigger an even bigger war in Lebanon with the heavily armed shia (who are a small minority compared to these numbers)
a war that will devastate the whole country for years.
10 May 2014, 20:27
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geha, what is a disaster waiting to happen is your sectarian way of thinking. Why do you assume that the vast majority of Lebanese sunni are accepting of the Syrians in Lebanon. Some of the greatest hostility towards the Syrians can be found in what you refer to as sunni communities in Lebanon. Try to analyze situations without referring to sectarianism when it doesn't warrant it.
10 May 2014, 20:32
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City, about Alfinik, don't bother, it's just another profile used by Bani Maarouf, now posting as Ibinbatrakrahi or better known Ibinwalidjumblat. He posts silly things, then gets banned, then changes the name and avatar, and whilst at it will use his little pickings to pick on people. masalan with Alfinik, the specialty is to copy and paste things I and others wrote before. Then will come the Wolf Rear, the Profile and heavens know what. Then they got themselves that Thumbing Machine, it keeps them busy, or him rather.
10 May 2014, 20:33
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Humanitarian inside Syria or in any other country. let us be humanitarian with ourselves first, quite enough right now.
11 May 2014, 05:10
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Why not turn Lebanon into one massive refugee camp run by UNHCR? That way they can bring in some South Sudanese, Yemeni and Bahraini's as well. We will all get free bread and polio vaccinations.
11 May 2014, 06:51
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roar-wolf 9 hours ago
lol karoomi shouldn't the dash in your name be on the left handside?
karim_ 9 hours ago 30
It was banned because the Al Qaeda sympathizers kept reporting me.
LOL, banned but you still can post with alias _karim, very weird!
11 May 2014, 07:58
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I dont think any country in the world has paid as big a price for refugees as Lebanon has. We've had Palestinian refugees for the past 60+ years, and what did they do? They started a civil war and killed thousands of Lebanese. Then they go off and start the skirmish in Nahr El Bared in 2007 which left hundreds of our soldiers dead.
Now we have more than a million Syrian refugees that are straining our resources, while the wealthy Gulf Arab states dont take in a single refugee but instead sit back and laugh at us. When is enough, enough? Why do we always have to take care of other people's problems and wars? How do we know that, if camps are set up for the Syrian refugees, the wont still be here 70 years from now, as with the Palestinians?
