“The Lebanese army stormed tents, confiscated internet boxes and brutally beat us” | Syrian refugees in Arsal camps appeal to SOHR to highlight their plights

A group of Syrian refugees in Arsal camps in Lebanon communicated with SOHR and expressed their anger and resentment, after the Lebanese army had indiscriminately stormed tents in the camps, searching for narcotics and weapons. The refugees also confirmed that the Lebanese soldiers confiscated the internet boxes, solar panels and bataries.

Speaking to SOHR, an activists in Arsal camp known as Naji Al-Zain said “the Lebanese army assaulted inhabitants of the tents, both who have solar panels and those who do not have them.”

The camp’s inhabitants have appealed, through SOHR, to the Lebanese authorities and human rights organisations to highlight their plights, especially since they are struggling with hunger and extreme poverty and concerned about forcible deportation and arbitrary arrests.

We, at the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), reaffirm our support to Syrian refugees in all countries around the world, and call upon the international community to interfere immediately and stop the provocation by the Lebanese authorities against Syrian refugees and put an end to the racist campaign and anti-Syrian sentiment in Lebanon.