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In a Syrian refugee camp: I would tell President Trump ‘to come and see’ us
Families crammed into ramshackle tents. Children playing amid garbage. Their parents, bewildered and fearful — with no place to go.
That is life in Jdita, a settlement center for Syrian refugees in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.
“What you see now is how we live every day,” says Hana Khalaf, surrounded by a half-dozen young children, her nephews, nieces and cousins, huddled together on the tent floor. “Life is monotonous. The situation is difficult. Imagine, you never know when your tent will catch fire.”
Her country has been on fire for six years. There are 4.8 million refugees from Syria’s civil war. That’s more than five times the number of Palestinian refugees created by the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. An estimated 1.6 million Syrians are in Lebanon, where most can’t get work permits due to onerous local regulations. Many of the children in Jdita have no school to attend.
So the families wait endlessly in their tents — for something to change.
But nothing does.
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