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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
UN peacekeepers rescue 36 migrants outside Lebanese waters
2020-09-15
[Al Ahram] The UN peacekeeping force in Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
 said it rescued on Monday 36 people onboard a ship carrying migrants colonists outside Lebanon's territorial waters.
The force, known as UNIFIL, said there were 37 migrants colonists on the ship but that one had died by the time the peacekeepers rescued the migrants colonists. The statement did not give a cause of death.It did not say where the ship was heading. Some Lebanese have been trying to flee the tiny Mediterranean nation lately, after Lebanon has been shaken by multiple crises, including its worst economic and financial crisis in decades.

Tens of thousands have lost jobs over the past year while the local currency, the Lebanese pound, lost nearly 80% of its value, plunging half the country's population into poverty.

The survivors were being provided immediate medical assistance on board the UNIFIL Maritime Task Force vessel before being transferred to the Lebanese authorities, the UN force said. It added that UNIFIL's ship was en route toward the Port of Beirut.

Last week, authorities in Cyprus said they were alarmed over the arrival of four boats carrying Syrian and Lebanese migrants colonists in waters off its coastline. European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
 member Cyprus and Lebanon have an agreement to prevent migrants colonists from reaching the island nation.

Lebanon, a country of 5 million people, is also home to nearly 1 million Syrian refugees, as well as tens of thousands of Paleostinians.

Over the past years, hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees have fled their country's civil war, seeking sanctuary in EU countries. Most of the Syrians have made it to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
through The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
Lebanese naval forces have in the past prevented ships carrying migrants colonists from leaving Lebanon but the force has been overwhelmed since the Aug. 4 explosion at Beirut's port that killed at least 190 and injured thousands. Much of the port was destroyed.
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