Resuming registration for Syrian refugees who want to go home in Lebanon

 


The General Security Directorate of Lebanon has started registering Syrian refugees who want to go back to their country once more.

After stopping operations on October 6 of last year owing to logistical considerations, the directorate restarted the operation of a registration centre in Arsal, a town in the northern Bekaa Region, according to Xinhua news agency.

On Wednesday, about 50 Syrian families who want to return to their hometowns in the Western Qalamoun Mountains and Al Qusayr registered their names.

The service would still be offered at the centre three days a week, according to the Directorate.

In light of its severe financial problems and inability to accommodate a large number of displaced persons on its territory, Lebanese authorities have frequently requested assistance from the international community in assisting the country in sending Syrian refugees back to their country of origin.

The UN Refugee Agency reports that Lebanon is presently experiencing its greatest socioeconomic crisis in decades and is home to the most refugees per person and per square kilometre in the whole globe.

According to government estimates, there are 13,715 refugees from other countries and 1.5 million Syrians.

90% of Syrian refugees, the bulk of whom have relocated in the Bekaa valley, live in abject poverty.

Nearly half of Lebanese people and two thirds of the 1.5 million Syrian refugees are food insecure despite prices increasing as a result of a severe economic crisis.

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