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Several citizens of northern Lebanon set fire to a Syrian refugee camp on Saturday night after a dispute broke out between a member of their family and “Syrian workers,” according to the official National News Agency.
The official Lebanese news agency reported that several northern citizens Lebanon They set fire to a Syrian refugee camp on Saturday night after a dispute broke out between a member of his family and “Syrian workers”.
For its part, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced that a large fire broke out in a refugee camp in the Minya area and that several of the injured were transferred to a nearby hospital, without specifying their number. UNHCR spokesman Khaled Kabbara said that “the fire spread to all the camp’s residences”, built with plastic and wooden materials, in which some 75 Syrian refugee families reside.
The spokesperson added that several of these families fled the camp “out of fear caused by the sounds like explosions caused by the explosion of gas cylinders.” He also noted that the size of the fire was enormous due to the highly flammable materials built, including the camp’s house, and the presence of gas bottles in it. “Plastic and wood are two materials that are highly flammable on their own, so what if there are gas bottles too?”
According to the “National News Agency”, “there was a problem between a person from the Mir family and some Syrian workers working in Minya, which caused a clash of hands and the fall of three injuries.”
The agency reported that, after the confusion, “several young people from the Al-Mir family intervened and deliberately set fire to some of the shops of the displaced Syrians in Minya,” before “Civil Defense vehicles intervened and worked to extinguish the fire, while the army and security forces intervened to control the situation ”.
For its part, a security source reported hearing shots.
وقدر Lebanon The number of Syrian refugees residing on their lands is approximately one and a half million, approximately one million of whom are registered with the High Commissioner for Refugees. They live in difficult humanitarian conditions, aggravated by the economic crisis, which was deepened by the outbreak of the new Corona virus, and then by the catastrophic explosion in the port of Beirut last August.
In recent years, Lebanon has witnessed, from time to time, racist campaigns and hate speech against refugees and calls for their deportation.
Lebanon is experiencing a serious economic crisis and many of them see the presence of refugees as an additional burden on the economy.
In late November, some 270 Syrian families left the northern Lebanese city of Bcharre, fearing reprisals, after a young Syrian was accused of killing a city resident.
France 24 / AFP
