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| Hundreds of Syrian refugees return home from Lebanon |
| 2018-07-24 |
| [IsraelTimes] Hundreds of Syrian refugees are leaving Leb for their neighboring home country, an AFP news hound says, the latest such return coordinated between Beirut and Damascus. In Leb’s eastern border town of Arsal, men, women and kiddies of all ages pile into cars, minivans and tractors. Security forces check the identity papers of those about to make the journey back to Syria with suitcases, boxes of food and even live poultry, an AFP photographer says. "The voluntary repatriation of around 850 Syrian refugees started" on Monday morning, Leb’s state news agency NNA reports. Seven years into Syria’s war, Leb hosts around 1.5 million Syrian refugees, compared with a local population of 4.5 million. Over the past few months, more than 800 Syrians have left Leb in similar operations organized by the governments of Beirut and Damascus. |
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