Army Allows ICRC to Treat Wounded Syrians on Mount Hermon
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The Lebanese army on Friday allowed Red Cross medics to treat a number of wounded people in the Syrian heights of Mount Hermon near the Lebanese town of Shebaa, despite a decision taken by the government last month not to accept any more refugees from the neighboring country.
“The Lebanese army allowed the International Committee of the Red Cross to treat seven wounded Syrians in the heights of Mount Hermon,” Turkey's Anatolia news agency quoted a security source as saying.
Al-Jadeed television for its part broadcast pictures of Red Cross medics offering first aid to a number of wounded people in the mountainous region.
Earlier in the day, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said the army barred 11 injured Syrians from entering Lebanese territories in Hasbaya in line with the government decision.
NNA said that Syrian factions tried to bring the wounded to Lebanese hospitals from the heights of Mount Hermon.
But they had to go back to the Syrian town of Beit Jinn after troops stopped them at the border, the agency added.
The government announced on October 23 that it would not accept any more refugees from Syria, except in what the authorities deem to be “exceptional” cases.
Lebanon has 1.5 million Syrian refugees while there are over 3 million Syrian refugees from the war, mostly in neighboring countries.
The refugees have stretched Lebanon's already fragile infrastructure and compete with Lebanon's poorest for low-paid jobs, causing tensions. Tens of thousands of Syrian children are out of school because there is nowhere to place them.
Another 6 million have been displaced within Syria, making it one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
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07 November 2014, 13:26
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exactly, they attack the army then come back to cry and ask us to treat their wounds.
07 November 2014, 14:17
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You beat me to it mowaten. I was thinking the same thing, exactly the same! We are so so similar: we are both narcissists, both shia extremists who pretend to be moderates, both have an inferiority complex, both pretend to be secular, and both have multiple accounts. I just hope readers don't think we are the same poster.
07 November 2014, 16:49
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If they can't enter without bringing weapons, there must be consequences.
07 November 2014, 17:21
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instead of barring those 11 wounded from getting in, focus instead on putting the 500000 whose regions are less unsafe to return.
07 November 2014, 23:03
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go and tell that to the army that authorized their treatment, ya chater.....
you want to appear smarter than the army or you have info that the army does not have or are you just plain stupid?
08 November 2014, 00:27
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I don't understand you, Hizb has to go at some point and it will, no organized militia could or would survive in the long term in such political circumstances, but it has to be done politically. You on the other hand are willing to sleep with the devil to make this happen, and if you do, you will stand tall victorious over nothing but sand and debris and destruction, but i can assure you then that you would be smiling for a few seconds before you realize that there's nothing left to build or live for.
08 November 2014, 13:53
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I am one who will always hail our army and pray for it, but now our army has pushed its generosity too far, such people should not come to us and we should not treat them either.
