Soldiers at the Arida border post, between Syria and Lebanon, after the shipwreck that occurred last week. (Credit:Mohammad Azakir/Reuters)
Leila* compulsively sends messages full of crying emoticons and broken hearts.“Please help me, please. I’m looking for my fiancé. I’m dying, I’m looking everywhere. I just want to know if he’s alive, if he’s in Lebanon, if he’s in Syria.”A week after a boat carrying migrants departed Lebanon and sank off the coast of Tartus, killing more than 100 people, Leila, a young Syrian woman from Latakia, still has no news of Omar,* “the love of [her] life.”Of the 150 Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian passengers on board, only 20 survivors have been rescued. Twelve of them are of Syrian nationality— from Latakia, Idlib and Aleppo, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). Read more: Deadly migrant boat journey highlights lucrative people smuggling market in northern Lebanon The organization said most of the travelers fled...
Leila* compulsively sends messages full of crying emoticons and broken hearts.“Please help me, please. I’m looking for my fiancé. I’m dying, I’m looking everywhere. I just want to know if he’s alive, if he’s in Lebanon, if he’s in Syria.”A week after a boat carrying migrants departed Lebanon and sank off the coast of Tartus, killing more than 100 people, Leila, a young Syrian woman from Latakia, still has no news of Omar,* “the love of [her] life.”Of the 150 Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian passengers on board, only 20 survivors have been rescued. Twelve of them are of Syrian nationality— from Latakia, Idlib and Aleppo, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). Read more: Deadly migrant boat journey highlights lucrative people smuggling market in northern Lebanon The organization said most...