Lebanon could explode at any moment , warns Social Affairs Minister

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Social Affairs Minister Rashid DerbasSocial Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas warned on Tuesday that Lebanon could explode at any moment , because of the Syrian refugee crisis.

He issued the warning during a speech at the Social Affairs Ministry during a meeting for the steering committee of The Lebanon Host Communities Support Project.

Around 1.1 million Syrian refugees are officially registered in Lebanon, but Lebanese authorities say the number is much higher and closer to 1.6 million . The influx of the refugees has placed immense pressure on Lebanon’s already ailing infrastructure.

Derbas explained that fragile host communities like Lebanon’s can no longer cope with the lengthy Syrian crisis,

“Small communities with little resources like the Lebanese society can’t tolerate the idea of long years of the Syrian crisis … because it can only stand its consequences for few months at its best,” Derbas said.

In Lebanon , a country of about 4 million, 1 in 3 is a refugee. ( Between the 1.6 million Syrian Refugees and nearly half a million Palestinian refugees over one third of the population is refugees). The main concern for Lebanon is the security issue, since the Syrian and the Palestinian refugee communities are the main source of security challenges.

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12 responses to “Lebanon could explode at any moment , warns Social Affairs Minister”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar

    Let’s not forget the out-of-work Lebanese (especially females) who are internal refugees.
    If you are going to talk about the impoverished and those blown out of homes, you should get them all in, right??
    (and Hariri has yet to begin the rebuilding of homes in Tripoli….)

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar

      “Lebanon’s rubbish state: A metaphor comes to life”
      Don’ expect Hariri to build homes in Tripoli or Onepoli.

      “According to Lebanon’s Al Akhbar newspaper, these were the words of former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in October of 2010, when he warned a cabinet session of the repercussions of failing to renew the contract of private waste management company Sukleen, run by Hariri family friends.”

      http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/lebanon-s-rubbish-state-metaphor-comes-life-1805866377#sthash.RhPwvR6w.dpuf

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar

        Like that one …. and since that report, the garbage litters the country sideroads … out of Beirut.
        “Constant intimacy with other people’s waste… is one of the most profound of social divides. Like the universal prevalence of parasites in the bodies of the poor, living in shit… truly demarcates two existential humanities.”

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar

          Yes indeed….’Oscars Organizers Sue Creators of Luxe Swag Bag That Includes Freebie Israel Trip’

          http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/333680/oscars-organizers-sue-creators-of-luxe-swag-bag-that-includes-freebie-israe/?utm_c

  2. To be fair Lebanon will be divided into New Damascus to the south and New Tehran to the north.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar

      Where has ‘Fair’ ever been in the Muddled East?

      1. When it was not inhabited.

  3. johngilbert Avatar
    johngilbert

    Hezbollah has fears that at some point these Sunni Syrian refugees will somehow turn against them because of what is going on in Syria so that all that is needed is for these refugees to be further angered and united together.

  4. Good way to rid Lebanon from the piles of rubbish.

  5. Michaelinlondon1234 Avatar
    Michaelinlondon1234

    I am all for doing a 1 for 1 swap. One Syrian leaves the country and one Lebanese person in Diaspora is returned.

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