Social Affairs Minister Wael Abou
Faour said around 2,000 people entered from Syria into Lebanon on Sunday,
escaping the deadly crackdown by the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad on
protestors.
“Around 2,000 people entered
Lebanese territories yesterday. Ten percent are families while the rest are
youth,” Abou Faour told An Nahar daily published Monday.
“This will lead to some confusion in
dealing with them,” he said.
Abou Faour stressed that his
ministry can’t take care of the refugees unless they move from the Bekaa valley
to northern Lebanon because the cabinet hasn’t tasked it with providing
assistance to them in the East.
A large number of the refugees will
return as soon as the security situation in their towns and villages improves,
he said.
There are now over 7,000 Syrian
refugees registered with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and the Higher
Relief Council in northern Lebanon.
The movement of refugees came as the
Lebanese army arrested a group of Syrian gunmen who had entered Lebanon through
the border town of al-Qaa and seized a large cache of weapons.
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