Registered Syrian #refugees in #Lebanon passes 1 million mark
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A Syrian man, with his wife and children, poses on a motorcycle nearby a refugee camp in the city of Ersal in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley on March 28, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Joseph Eid)
The number of Syrians registered as refugees in Lebanon after fleeing war in their country has surpassed one million, the UN refugee agency said on Thursday. Refugees from #syria, half of them children, now equal a quarter of Lebanon’s resident population, the #UNHCR said in a statement, warning that most of them live in poverty and depend on aid for survival. The UN agency said the figure is “a devastating milestone worsened by rapidly depleting resources and a host community stretched to breaking point”. read (...)