(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese authorities have demolished the Rihanya camp north of Akkar province on Thursday, leaving about 1500 people stranded, few days before the Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday
Lebanon has been ordered to demolish about 4,000 hard shelters, which the authorities consider illegal construction.
Lebanese politicians and part of the population have called for Syrian refugees to go home, blaming them for a string of economic woes in the country.
Rights groups, including Amnesty International, have warned that Lebanon is using restrictive measures such as evictions, curfews and raids to encourage repatriation.
Lebanon, a country of some four million people, hosts between 1.5 and two million Syrians on its soil after they fled the eight-year civil war next door.
Nearly a million of these are registered as refugees with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.
Around 35,000 Syrian refugees are affected by the demolition order, including 15,000 people in the Arsal region, UNHCR says.
Zaman Al Wasl
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