The municipality of the Lebanese Kherbit Dawood town in Akkar province has issued an order to close all camps and collections of Syrians in the town's boundaries within 3 months.
A order to closing all camps and collections of Syrians in Kherbit Dawood town was faced with worries by Syrians and the United Nations Officials in the area. 30 Syrians representing Syrians in the camps and officials of the United nations met at the house of the head of municipality, to discuss the outcomes of the order if it was implemented.
A source attended the meeting spoke to Zaman al-Wasl on condition of anonymity detailed that the head of municipality offered his support and protection to all Syrians who want to return to homeland, and on his cost.
The source considered the order as a pressurising card to force Syrians to return to Syria according to Hezbollah’s agenda, as it started pushing Syrians in Lebanon to return back to their country, especially after news of “Safe Zones” in the border area of Kalamoun.
Residents of Kherbit Dawood condemned the order and organised a sit-in in front of the town council, considering it “racist and provoking”.
Syrians appreciated the residents’ attitude and considered it “honest and honourable” and the first of its kind in Lebanon.
The head of the municipality justified the order by the high intensity of Syrians in the town, as Syrians’ numbers have become more than three folds of Lebanese residents, which overstreched the sevices like water, electricity and transportation, besides affecting the social and development of the town, amid the neglect by the aid and support agency for the town’s demands of support.
The town of Kherbit Dawood has many villages in which Syrian refugees of Kalamoun and Qusayr. In th village of Libra, about 300 Syrian families live, while in the village of Khirbeh hosts 250 families.
Many Lebanese ministers supportive to Hezbollah and Iran had adopted a policy to provoke Lebanese against Syrians in Lebanon, which started to have some outcomes.
There are around 1.2 million Syrians in Lebanon according to figures of the United Nations Higher Commissioner for Refugees, the majority of them live in camps
