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Syrian refugees dying of cold after camps are refused official recognition

By C. J. Refsland on December 13, 2013 • ( 0 )

My Comment: This is heartbreaking. I don’t have an answer, I don’t know any agency who is trying to help here. If anyone does, please post a comment. The world is so concerned about aiding evil and overlooks this. Pray, pray for God to send caring hands to these innocent children and people. People fleeing for their lives.

(Daily Mail) In a makeshift camp a few miles from the border in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, Ibrahim sat in his tent where the dirt floor had turned to mud. Strong winds blew snow in the entrance and children huddled in one corner around a fire in a metal crate.’The storm will finish us. It’s freezing now. I seek refugee in God,’ the 27-year-old Syrian refugee told Reuters.

Chill: A youngster braces against the cold at a camp for Syrian refugees in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley after the first winter snows fell this week, bringing fresh misery to the hundreds of thousands who have fled the war

Syrian refugees play with snow: This week’s storm, dubbed Alexa, pushed temperatures below freezing in northern Lebanon and some areas of the Bekaa Valley, which is dotted with informal refugee settlements

A young Syrian plays with snow following a storm in the town of Arsal in the Lebanese Bekaa valley

A Syrian refugee boy stands in a pool of mud outside his tent the makeshift refugee camp of Terbol near the Bekaa Valley town of Zahleh

‘This winter promises to be very harsh’: Dana Sleiman of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees told the Associated Press that at least 80,000 Syrians in Lebanon will spend the winter in tents
The season’s first snow settled in parts of Lebanon this week, giving refugee children who have fled the war in Syria the opportunity for a snowball fight outside their tents.

But, children’s games aside, the winter weather heaped another layer of misery on the already grim existence of many of the estimated one million Syrians in Lebanon who have fled the civil war raging in their homeland.

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