 |
SlideshowA Deteriorating Humanitarian Situation for Syrian Refugees in LebanonFebruary 6, 2013The MSF report, “Misery Beyond the War Zone,” shows that many of the 220,000 Syrians who have sought refuge in Lebanon cannot obtain the health care they need, among other worrisome findings. The survey, which follows a similar study carried out by MSF last June, reveals a marked deterioration of the humanitarian situation for refugees and other displaced people in Lebanon, in large part due to extremely lengthy registration delays. Refugees in Lebanon are not entitled to formal assistance if they are not registered. 
Lebanon 2013 © Michael Goldfarb Members of a Syrian refugee family from Homs gather in a room in the unfinished house they are occupying in the town of Majdal Aanjar in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, January 17, 2013. Nineteen people live in the half-built house, which is exposed to the elements. Though the house's owner, who is allowing them to stay there for free, provided them with a stove, they do not have enough fuel to keep themselves warm. # 
Lebanon 2013 © Michael Goldfarb A refugee from Homs lights a heating stove with scraps of paper in a half-built house in the town of Majdal Aanjar in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, as his wife looks on, January 17, 2013. Eleven relatives are staying rent-free in the house, but the cold is a constant issue. # 
Lebanon 2013 © Michael Goldfarb A Syrian refugee carries his two-year-old daughter in the makeshift and rain-soaked Taybeh refugee camp outside Baalbek in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, January 18, 2013. Unhygienic conditions in the camp are leading to various communicable illnesses, especially among children. The camp is home to approximately 300 people who fled conflict in Syria. # 
Lebanon 2013 © Michael Goldfarb A Syrian refugee drinks from a water tank in the Taybeh refugee camp, January 18, 2013. # 
Lebanon 2013 © Michael Goldfarb A water-logged latrine stands in a makeshift refugee camp in Deir Zenoun, a town in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, January 20, 2013. The mud-strewn camp is home to roughly 500 people who fled conflict in Syria. Residents suffer from a lack of clean water and proper latrines, inadequate shelter, and unreliable access to food, all of which heighten the risk of communicable disease, especially among children. . # 
Lebanon 2013 © Michael Goldfarb Dr. Ibrahim Saleh, a Lebanese physician, examines a Syrian refugee at the MSF medical clinic in the town of Majdal Aanjar in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, January 21, 2013. Tens of thousands of refugees have settled in the valley, living in half-built homes and makeshift camps, and do not have regular access to medical care. The clinic operates in a youth sports center. # 
Lebanon 2013 © Michael Goldfarb Syrian refugee boys sit by a cooking fire in their ramshackle home on a cattle ground in Tripoli, Lebanon, January 22, 2013. A family of 20 people from Idlib shares two cramped rooms in the fetid settlement, paying $175 for the shelter, which has no heating or refrigerator. They draw water from a nearby well that is likely contaminated by cow manure. # 
Lebanon 2013 © Michael Goldfarb An elderly Syrian refugee suffering from Parkinson's disease sleeps, surrounded by his daughter-in-law and granddaughter, January 22, 2013. # 
Lebanon 2013 © Michael Goldfarb Syrian refugees in the bedroom of their two-room structure on the grounds of a stone-cutting factory in the town of Arsal in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, January 23, 2013. The factory workers provide them with food. #
Related:
Tags: Syria, Lebanon, Refugees and IDPs |
||
|
|
||
