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Arsal refugees doubt their condition may improve after soldiers swap deal

Reporting by Abdulhafiz al Jolani; Translation by Yusra Ahmed


Arsal - (Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese army backed with Shiite Hezbollah militia have renewed ground and missile attacks on border territory controlled by Nusra Front, hours after the al-Qaeda branch in Syria had delivered 16 army hostages who held in captivity for 16 months.

Syrian refugees based in the border town of Arsal have denounced the breach of the Qatari-brokered deal that stated no attacks on refugee areas.

Mohammed Rifai, a teacher from Qalamoon expressed his optimism about the deal, and felt that it would bring welfare Syrian refugees in medical field, and from security point of view and aid. He considered the deal a victory and done from strong position not a sign of weakness and fear.

Dr. Ihsan Alsamar from Al Qusayr and the responsible for the medical body in Ersal, supported the teacher’s point of view and described it as a positive initiative and it would help in releasing tension and spread relief among people in all the camp’s tents. He wished luck to the military members and wished the same thing to take place for detainees in regime’s prisons to return to their families.

Abo Ali Sahli from Yabrud and work now in selling vegetables, looked at the agreement in suspicion relying on the habitual treachery of Hezbollah militia and their hate to refugees, he saw that the agreement has wasted the pressure card from Nusra Front which prevented Hezbollah from exceeding its limits with refugees.

Mohera Khankan, a housewife from Homs city did not see that the agreement would bring any benefit to Syrians as the whole world has conspired against Syrians and their revolution. Om Zohair Raed from Al Qusayr refused to express her opinion because she was worried about her son who works in Lebanon from being hurt by the Lebanese General security.

Mohammed Kadour, the baccalaureate student from Qara town in Kalamoon believed that the Lebanese army is as brutal and insidious as the regime army therefore the solution for the Syrian problem and all refugees will be only by fighting, and the word would be for the battlefields there in Syria.

Activist Zaid Eter said the majority of refugees were worried about aid and support, as they lost their trust in politics as it turned up from being the “art of possible” to the art of deceiving people and killing their ambitions,

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