Syrians at the Masnaa border crossing, on Dec. 8, 2024 in Lebanon, on the border with Syria. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/L'Orient-Le Jour)
At the Lebanese border crossing of Masnaa in the Bekaa, many more cars are coming from Syria to Lebanon than those going the other way. Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad on Dec. 8, dozens of vehicles have been queuing at the arrivals checkpoint at this only official crossing point that is currently operational, according to a source from the Lebanese General Security interviewed by L'Orient-Le Jour. At peak times, traffic jams can stretch for several hundred meters and the wait can last several hours, according to statements collected.On Dec. 10, two days after the fall of the regime, the caretaker interior minister, Bassam Mawlawi, said that 8,400 Syrians had entered Lebanon legally, where more than a million Syrians had already found refuge since the start of the conflict in 2011. Contacted on Thursday, General Security was not able to...
At the Lebanese border crossing of Masnaa in the Bekaa, many more cars are coming from Syria to Lebanon than those going the other way. Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad on Dec. 8, dozens of vehicles have been queuing at the arrivals checkpoint at this only official crossing point that is currently operational, according to a source from the Lebanese General Security interviewed by L'Orient-Le Jour. At peak times, traffic jams can stretch for several hundred meters and the wait can last several hours, according to statements collected.On Dec. 10, two days after the fall of the regime, the caretaker interior minister, Bassam Mawlawi, said that 8,400 Syrians had entered Lebanon legally, where more than a million Syrians had already found refuge since the start of the conflict in 2011. Contacted on Thursday, General Security was not able...