After forced displacement of hundreds of people
Tension remains high on Monday in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, following the forced displacement of hundreds of Syrian refugees at the weekend.
Local media reported the possibility that about 400 refugees, including many women and children, may be forcibly transferred to Syria, which is where they originally fled from the armed conflict that is still underway.
The epicentre of the refugee tension in Lebanon is in Deir al-Ahmar in the northern Beqaa Valley.
Since the start of the civil war in Syria in 2011, over a million Syrians have taken refuge in Lebanon, a country whose own population is less than four million.
Lebanese authorities have recently intensified the dismantling of refugee camps and increased pressure on the refugee community.
Lebanon did not sign the 1951 Geneva Refugee Convention, and since 2011 the country has considered the presence of "foreign guests" in its territory as a temporary situation.
SOURCE: ANSAmed
