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Number of Syria refugees in Lebanon tops 625,000 , UNHCR

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Syrian refugee children queue for aidBeirut, – Over 625,000 Syrian refugees are receiving aid in Lebanon, the UN refugee agency has said.

With the recent increase of 13,000 registered Syrian refugees with the UN office in Lebanon, the number of registered refugees is now more than 530,000, Xinhua cited the UNHCR as saying.

Over 95,000 refugees are still waiting for their registration process to be completed.

Lebanon has called on the UN Security Council and international donors to help it bear the burden of hosting the Syrian refugees, whose number may hit one million by the end of this year.

UNHCR chief Antonio Guterres said last month that the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon had surpassed 25 percent of its own population and was inflicting a huge burden on the Lebanese government and people.

Lebanon’s ambassador to the U.N. told the Security Council last Tuesday that the actual number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon is estimated at 1.2 million , which represents one quarter of the Lebanese population.

Addressing the US representative at the UN , Dr. Nawaf Salam said:
“Madam President, it’s as if your country, the United States of America, were going to have an influx of 75 million refugees,” Salam said. “Could you imagine the impacts of an influx of such magnitude on your country?”

While Lebanon has a population of just over 4 million , the US has a population is 314 million

Xinhua

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8 responses to “Number of Syria refugees in Lebanon tops 625,000 , UNHCR”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Aside from ‘Dr’ Salam making silly population comparisons, and begging the USA for more even when it has given the MOST of all in the UN anyway, I begin to think that the Syrians have finally recognized that Lebanese ARE THE NICEST people anywhere, and want to be close. It’s time, perhaps, to nationalize them and hand out passports and citizenships. Seems they are getting jobs and into businesses anyway.
    Maybe THESE ones will pay the taxes and electrical bills too. (Which would stop the begging. 😉

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      As an ‘aside’ to the refugee crisies of the world, which are real enough, I am curious about how much comes TO the USA from the UN for it’s human disasters of flood, hurricane, fire, earthquake and tornado.
      Anyone have those numbers ???
      (For those who think I ask because I like the USA so much, or agree with something it said, also allow me to say it is ONLY for the sake of comparison and factual accuracy that I ask.)

  2. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Aside from ‘Dr’ Salam making silly population comparisons, and begging the USA for more even when it has given the most of all in the UN anyway, I begin to think that the Syrians have finally recognized that Lebanese ARE THE NICEST people anywhere, and want to be close. It’s time, perhaps, to nationalize them and hand out passports and citizenships. Seems they are getting jobs and into businesses anyway.
    Maybe THESE ones will pay the taxes and electrical bills too. 😉

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      As an ‘aside’ to the refugee crisies of the world, which are real enough, I am curious about how much comes TO the USA from the UN for it’s human disasters of flood, hurricane, fire, earthquake and tornado.
      Anyone have those numbers ???

  3. vasile grasu Avatar
    vasile grasu

    are these refugees sunni? or maybe some shia and christians? druzes?certaonly not alawis..

  4. vasile grasu Avatar
    vasile grasu

    are these refugees sunni? or maybe some shia and christians? druzes?certaonly not alawis..

  5. Leborigine Avatar
    Leborigine

    Why doesn’t HA do something positive for once and house these refugees in the training camps in the Bekaa?

  6. Leborigine Avatar
    Leborigine

    Why doesn’t HA do something positive for once and house these refugees in the training camps in the Bekaa?

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