Storm flooding brings misery to Syrian refugees in Lebanon
Submitted by webmaster on 17 January 2019
Storm flooding brings misery to Syrian refugees in Lebanon
One dead and more than 11,000 affected by days of heavy rain and high winds from Storm Norma, with hundreds of refugees forced to abandon their homes.

A Syrian refugee holds one of her seven children outside the family's flooded home at Dalhamiya informal settlement camp in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. © UNHCR/Diego Ibarra Sánchez
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Juriya Ramadan holds one of her children as she inspects her flooded house at Dalhamiya informal settlement camp in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. © UNHCR/Diego Ibarra Sánchez
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Juriya Ramadan, who fled from Deir El Zor in Syria, walks the flooded streets of Dalhamiya informal settlement camp in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. © UNHCR/Diego Ibarra Sánchez
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One of Juriya Ramadan’s sons sits inside his flooded tent. The tent collapsed as a consequence of Storm Norma’s violence. © UNHCR/Diego Ibarra Sánchez