“Death by a thousand cuts”: Syrian refugees face dire conditions as Lebanon unravels
May 3, 2021 Share
Kamel, a native of Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province who uses a pseudonym to protect his identity, says he has been working in Lebanon’s sanitation and agricultural sectors ever since he completed compulsory military service in Syria more than 15 years ago. Like most Syrian seasonal and migrant workers, he spent part of the year in Lebanon and the rest with his wife and children in Deir ez-Zor.
Everything changed for Kamel and many others like him over the past decade as war in Syria brought an estimated 1.5 million refugees to Lebanon, turning one of the smallest countries into the host of the highest number of displaced persons per capita in the world and prompting successive Lebanese governments to pass a series of measures to curb the influx of more refugees and coerce those already here into returning to Syria. Lebanon also refuses to officially recognize t
Death by a thousand cuts : Syrian refugees face dire conditions as Lebanon unravels
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