Winter storm in Arsal, Lebanon devastates vulnerable Syrian refugee communities
By
Mohammad Abdulssattar Ibrahim, Tom Rollins, and Madeline Edwards from Syria Direct
A winter storm currently sweeping across the region has hit Lebanon hard, leaving tens of thousands of Syrian refugees in the country without proper assistance and shelter. While flooding has inundated and destroyed informal tent settlements dotting the fields and countryside of the Beqaa Valley—a mostly flat, agricultural lowland with Lebanese mountains to the west and the Syrian-Lebanese border to the east—conditions have been particularly poor in northeastern Lebanon’s Arsal region.
