{"id":28482,"date":"2019-01-09T22:23:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T22:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28482"},"modified":"2019-01-09T22:23:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T22:23:20","slug":"lebanese-security-forces-arrest-three-syrians-with-links-to-daesh-in-middle-east-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28482","title":{"rendered":"Lebanese security forces arrest three Syrians with links to Daesh in Middle East, Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"63\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT: At a makeshift camp in the Lebanese town of Arsal, refugees are burning their clothes trying to ward off the harsh cold as storms flood their tents.<br \/>\u201cWe have no fuel at all. People are tearing up clothes, burning plastic, whatever they can find to get warm,\u201d Abdallah Mokdeh said in the border town.<br \/>\u201cThis is the worst we\u2019ve seen in years.\u201d<br \/>Since 2011, more than a million Syrians have fled the war at home to Lebanon, where aid agencies say most live in severe poverty. Tens of thousands are in Arsal near the hills at the border with Syria.<br \/>\u201cThe roads are blocked. We called an ambulance and it did not come,\u201d said Mokdeh, a refugee who acts as a caretaker for the rows of tents pitched closely together on a patch of earth.<br \/>Floods ruined mattresses and destroyed tents, forcing some people to move in with their neighbors. Many were sick or elderly. Some tents already housed three families, he said.<br \/>\u201cThe snow, the cold have no mercy.\u201d<br \/>Mahmoud Hakouk, a 60-year-old Syrian man at the same site, has struggled to stay dry. \u201cI need a blanket,\u201d he said, shivering. \u201cI swear to God I don\u2019t have enough to buy bread.\u201d<br \/>The UN refugee agency said high winds, rain and snow had \u201cheavily impacted\u201d more than 150 informal settlements, including some that were fully flooded or collapsed. A child was reported missing, it said on Wednesday.<br \/>The heavy storm inundated hundreds of tented settlements across Lebanon and left youngsters stranded in freezing temperatures, charity Save the Children said.<br \/>\u201cIt\u2019s miserable here, we have tents that collapsed because of the intense wind,\u201d said Radwan Raad, standing in the snow at another ramshackle camp in Arsal.<br \/>Many of the camp\u2019s residents did not receive UN aid and could not afford food every day, he added.<br \/>Helem Amer, 85, wrapped herself in a blanket in her flimsy shelter at that camp. \u201cI can\u2019t get up on my own, there\u2019s no fuel, nothing, nobody to help.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT: At a makeshift camp in the Lebanese town of Arsal, refugees are burning their clothes trying to ward off the harsh cold as storms flood their tents.\u201cWe have no fuel at all. People are tearing up clothes, burning plastic, whatever they can find to get warm,\u201d Abdallah Mokdeh said in the border town.\u201cThis is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}