HUMANITARIAN: Help for refugees in Lebanon and Jordan

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HUMANITARIAN: Help for refugees in Lebanon and Jordan

Postby meeberg » 11 Feb 2013 10:02

Lebanon and Jordan should consider setting up transit centers to absorb the waves of refugees fleeing neighboring Syria and may have to establish formal refugee camps if the influx continues.
The tiny and fragile Mediterranean state Lebanon already hosts 260,000 refugees - equivalent to 6.5 percent of its population - and has sought to absorb them in homes and communities, fearing large camps of Sunni Muslim Syrians could inflame sectarian tensions still smoldering from its own 1975-1990 civil war.
Thel Za'atri refugee camp is located near the Jordanian city of Mafraq, home to more than 90,000 Syrian refugees since opening in July, and the camp has been the scene of frequent riots due to poor living conditions. A week ago camp residents fought over tents being distributed by the same Norwegian charity that was targeted this week ??? also prompting police to employ tear gas to control the mob.
The Hashemite Kingdom has announced it is setting up a second refugee camp northeast of Amman to absorb some of the overflow. At present the Jordanian government is hosting some 340,000 Syrian refugees, of whom only 200,000 are registered with the United Nations.
But the accelerating exodus from Syria's bloodshed means that the number of Syrians seeking help in Lebanon and Jordan is growing day by day, leaving authorities and the UNHCR refugee agency struggling to provide for them. A report by the French aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres said half the refugees in Lebanon were not receiving sufficient medical care and many more were living in inadequate winter shelter.

UNHCR has increased registration of new refugees to 50,000 a month, but even that may not keep pace with new arrivals and its capacity is stretched to the limit.

The AirSource Humanitarian division is flying with a C-130 to Lebanon and Jordan with tents, food, medicines and other needed goods.
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