Minister of State for Refugees Affairs Mouin Merhebi told The Associated Press that 20 refugees have been killed since refugee started returning from Lebanon in June. Merhebi said that so far about 12,000 Syrian refugees have returned home from Lebanon since June. Merhebi said that at the height of the war the number of registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon reached 1.2 million, or about a quarter of Lebanon’s population. The Russian military says nearly 270,000 Syrian refugees have returned home in recent months. “The moment Syrian refugees hear that Hezbollah is registering names they get terrified… This is having negative effects.”Hezbollah has rejected Merhebi’s findings, and says it encourages Syrian refugees to return from Lebanon.

Source: Egypt Independent November 28, 2018 09:45 UTC