• Bekaa area in east Lebanon. This informal refugee settlement is one of several in the region. At the time this photo was taken it was a new settlement with just a few tents. The ICRC has distributed emergency food and non-food items to newly arrived refugees in several places.
    • Bekaa area in east Lebanon. This informal refugee settlement is one of several in the region. At the time this photo was taken it was a new settlement with just a few tents. The ICRC has distributed emergency food and non-food items to newly arrived refugees in several places.
      Some of the refugees who stay in these informal tented settlements later move to other places or shelters, such as unfinished apartments, empty warehouses, etc...
      © ICRC / J. Spaull / lb-e-01298
  • The future looks uncertain for this little girl from Deraa, who, along with her family, fled the war in Syria recently. She shares a tent with eight family members in an informal refugee settlement in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.
    • The future looks uncertain for this little girl from Deraa, who, along with her family, fled the war in Syria recently. She shares a tent with eight family members in an informal refugee settlement in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.
      © ICRC / J. Spaull / lb-e-01296
  • Following the destruction of Deraa, this woman and some members of her family managed to escape to safety. Many members of her immediate family are still trapped inside Syria, injured, traumatized by the atrocities they are enduring, separated from their loved ones, missing and/or feared dead.
  • This family of Syrian refugees from Deraa found shelter with other refugees in the basement of a half-built apartment block in Beirut, with neither electricity nor water. A local mosque provides them with assistance in the form of a meal per day.
  • This family from Damascus fled to Lebanon in September 2012 with four children. Several members of this family were killed in Syria. The family found temporary shelter in an old school in Naameh, south of Beirut. For a while the school was home to 53 families.
  • This man and his family were among 53 families housed in an old school that had been converted into temporary refugee shelter. The refugees received food donated by the Red Crescent Society of the United Arab Emirates.
  • This refugee woman left Aleppo, Syria, in 2012 because of the danger that constant sniper fire exposed her sons to. She is living with them in a two-room apartment in Beirut. She has no idea what has become of her house back in Aleppo.
  • This mother and her severely disabled 20-year old daughter fled Aleppo, Syria, and arrived in Beirut in 2011. She has no money to pay for all the drugs and medication that her daughter needs. She wishes her daughter could be admitted to an institution that would provide her with proper care.
  • In 2011 this refugee family fled Aleppo. The family lost one daughter to a viral infection because they lacked the money to seek medical care. The family members live in apartment in Beirut, and have been unable to pay rent for three months.
  • This Syrian refugee family fled Deraa in early 2013. Eight members of the family left Syria, while a few others chose to remain behind. The refugees live in a disused shop in Beirut. So far they have been unable to pay rent, and the children are receiving no education. While the family is concerned about illiteracy and wants the children to get an education, the majority of Syrian refugee children have no opportunity to go to school.

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