At least 70 Syrian refugee families in northern Lebanon hve founded nowhere to go after revoking land rent contract and license they were granted for building a camp for them.
The 70 families have been displaced from Idlib and rented a land in the town of Halaba in Akkar district in Lebanon, and paid in advance for three and a half year, but the landlord voided the contract and told them that their rent contract and license are worthless.
Sohaib Hussien al-Ahmad, a representative of the camp in Halba told Ammar Johmani that when they sought help from the municipality where they were granted the license, they were surprise to discover that the license was withdrawn and disappeared from the register after pressure of local residents who refused to let the Syrians live in the area and build or do anything in the land.
The speaker added that they have fenced the land to avoid annoying the local residents, but despite that, they were prevented from doing any minor activity in the camp by the the local security forces till theyreceive the final official decision in regard to letting Syrians to live in the land and build houses.
“we are about 70 families, almost 400 people most of them children, women and elderly, we have no house, no roof other than the sky, no one does a thing to help us, although we have sought help from many bodies”, al-Ahmed said.
The speaker appealed via Ammar Johmani all organisations concerned in Syrian affairs to do anything to save them from the status of displacement without electricity, water, food and houses.
Syrians in Lebanon are subject to huge social, economic and security pressure. The situation has become worse after many anti-Syrians actions, especially Syrian workers, most of them supported and initiated from Hezbollah.
About 1.2 million Syrians live in Lebanon according to figures of the United Nations Higher Commissioner for Refugees, the majority of them live in camps
