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Politics
Jacques Neriah

Syrian Refugees In Lebanon Face Existential Threat Amid Anti-refugee Sentiment

A Lebanese man looks towards the sea near the Arida Border Crossing with Syria, on September 23, 2022, as relatives wait for the arrival of the bodies of those drowned when a boat they boarded sank off Syria's coast. - At least 77 migrants drowned when a boat they boarded in Lebanon sank off Syria's coast, Syria's health minister said Friday, in one of the deadliest such shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean. PHOTO BY FATHI AL-MASRI/GETTY IMAGES

Electing a president and nominating a government to replace the caretaker government that governs Lebanon since the vacancy of the presidency in Oct. 2023 are topics of utmost interest to all Lebanese.

However, this is not the most important topic of discussion compared to the existential threat to Lebanon’s national fabric represented by the presence of masses of Syrian refugees who flocked into Lebanon with the outbreak of the civil war in Syria in 2011. Hundreds of thousands of Syrian nationals fled from the terror initiated by the Assad regime against whoever dared to challenge it.

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