The burning of tents for Syrian refugees in northern Lebanon, due to an individual problem



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The burning of tents for Syrian refugees in northern Lebanon, due to an individual problem

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The burning of tents for Syrian refugees in northern Lebanon, due to an individual problem


Sunday – 13 Jumada I 1442 AH – December 27, 2020 CE


One side of the Syrian refugee tents after the fire broke out in them (AFP)

Beirut: “Middle East Online”

The official Lebanese news agency reported that several citizens of northern Lebanon set fire to a Syrian refugee camp last night (Saturday), after a dispute broke out between a member of his family and “Syrian workers”.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees confirmed that a major fire broke out in a refugee camp in the Minya area, and that several of the injured were taken to a nearby hospital, without specifying their number. “The fire spread to all the camp’s residences,” made of plastic and wooden materials, in which some 75 Syrian refugee families reside, UNHCR spokesman Khaled Kabbara told the French press.
He added that several of these families fled the camp “out of fear caused by the sounds of explosion caused by the explosion of gas cylinders.” The spokesperson explained that the size of the fire was enormous due to the 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 as well?” He said. According to the official “National News Agency”, “there was a problem between a person from the Al-Mir family and some Syrian workers working in Minya, which caused a clash of hands and the fall of three injuries.”
The agency claimed that after the confusion, “several youths from the Al-Mir family intervened and deliberately set fire to some tents for displaced Syrians in Miniyeh,” 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.
Lebanon estimates the number of Syrian refugees residing on its territory at around 1.5 million, of which around one million are registered with UNHCR. 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 that occurred in the port of Beirut last August. 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.

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