The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees revealed on Saturday that at least 283,000 refugees have fled Syria to Lebanon and are currently receiving aid from the Lebanese cabinet, the U.N. and other non-governmental organizations.
“185,000 refugees have been registered so far while 98,000 are awaiting to be added to the list soon,” the UNHCR detailed in its weekly report on the situation of Syrians in Lebanon.
It explained: “Syrians are arriving at a steady rate and we were able to register more than 10,000 person this week”.
The statement noted that refugees arriving to Lebanon mainly come from the cities of Aleppo, Homs, Idlib and Damascus of the war-torn country.
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres had said last week that the number of people fleeing fighting in Syria could reach 1.1 million by June.
The international community needed to support a $1 billion plan, pushed by his and other international groups, to address the needs of those displaced by the Syrian conflict, he said.
The humanitarian situation in Syria is "the most dramatic crisis we are facing today," he said, adding developed nations, including those in Europe, needed to accept more refugees, as Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon have done.
