400 thousand displaced people crossed from Lebanon to Syria within two weeks

The Lebanese government’s Disaster Risk Management Unit announced that more than 400,000 people have crossed from Lebanon into Syria, most of them Syrians, within two weeks, that is, because Israel more raids on various areas in Lebanon.

The unit said, in a report today, Monday, “from the last date of September 23 to October 5 of this year, the General Security of Lebanon recorded that 300,774 Syrian citizens and 102,283 Lebanese citizens entered the territory of Syria.

Earlier today, the group said Human Rights Watch A human rights activist said that the recent Israeli strikes on the main border crossing between Lebanon and Syria are preventing the escape of displaced people and hindering humanitarian aid operations, warning that they expose civilians to “great risks.”

Last Friday, the Israeli army announced that its planes attacked Hezbollah targets “along the Masnaa border crossing” in the Bekaa region of eastern Lebanon, which, according to Lebanese officials, led to the cutting of the road between the two countries.

Human Rights Watch said, “Even if an Israeli attack is aimed at a legitimate military target, it may still be illegal if it is intended to cause direct civilian harm that is disproportionate to the military gain.” which is expected. “

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The Israeli army, in a statement on Friday, announced that it had destroyed an underground tunnel under the Lebanese-Syrian border, which Hezbollah was using to carry “multiple means of combat,” which are accusations that the army always repeating to justify their bombing. of civilian targets.

The international road between Lebanon and Syria remains closed in both directions as a result of the attack. Tens of thousands of Lebanese and Syrian refugees have been taken since Israel began its heavy raids on Lebanon.

An official in the Syrian Ministry of Transport told Agence France-Presse on Monday that the road between Damascus and Beirut remains “completely blocked” to car traffic, but is “available for people on foot.”

The Lebanese authorities counted that more than 370,000 people went over from Lebanon to Syria, between 23 and 30 September last year, most of them Syrians.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, said when he visited the Syrian side of the crossing that the flow of people “has decreased, but hundreds of people are still flowing, and they are also ‘flow through other endpoints.’

Grandi said that Sudanese, Palestinians, and people of other nationalities crossed the crossing, along with Syrians and Lebanese.

Before the recent increase, the Lebanese authorities estimated that there were nearly two million Syrian refugees on their territory​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​, more than 774,000 of whom were registered with the United Nations.

Since September 23 last year, Israel has expanded the scope of the war it has been fighting against Gaza since October 7, 2023, to include most of the Lebanese regions, taking its -into the capital, Beirut, through an air raid of unprecedented violence and intensity, and has also begun a ground offensive to the south, overcome by international warnings and the resolutions of the UN.

The current Israeli escalation against Lebanon has resulted in the killing of more than 1,200 people and the wounding of 3,400, including a large number of women and children, and more than 1,200,000 displaced people, according to official Lebanese data.

Hezbollah responds to Israel’s attack on Lebanon by launching missiles, drones, and artillery shells targeting military sites, cities, and settlements throughout Israel.