Group of Syrian refugees walking through a blizzard in the Beqaa Valley, where most of the Syrian families which ran away from the war live. During winter, storms regularly damage tents and batter the communities with rain, wind and snow. Lebanon is the country with the highest per capita concentration of refugees. Zahle, Lebanon, 2015. Diego Ibarra Sánchez.
Syrian refugees wait for being relocated after Bar Elias informal settlement camp was flooded. Since Storm Norma hit last week, more than 1,000 Syrian refugees have been forced to relocate to other areas, either in nearby camps or with other extended family members.
Syrian refugees try to extinguish a fire after a fire broke out inside a tent located outskirts Zahle, Lebanon. The Tent doesn’t belong to any camp and it holds 22 Syrian refugees. There were several cases of smoke inhalation, but none of them were serious. unsafe heating methods are putting people at higher risk of contracting respiratory diseases and complications related to smoke inhalation.
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Syrian refugees try to calm a woman in sock after a fire broke out inside her tent located outskirts of Zahle, Lebanon. The Tent start burning after a malfunction in the strove. Unsafe heating methods are putting refugees at higher risk. Zahle Lebanon
An informal settlement camp is seen covered by snow. Winter adds to the suffering of Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Situation of Syrian refugees exacerbated by Lebanese economic crisis, a country unable to address needs of refugees Haouch El Omaraa Lebanon
Fatima, a 37 years old Syrian refugee warm her self at her temporally home located in an informal settlement outskirt Zahle. She fled Aleppo 5 months ago. She is working as a farmer 7 hours per day. Cold weather regularly brings snow and sub-zero temperatures across mountainous regions and the Beqaa Valley. This can have a huge impact on vulnerable refugee communities, many of whom live in ill-equipped and poorly heated or insulated tented settlements. Diego Ibarra Sánchez
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Tripoli, North Lebanon. January 2018. Portrait of Abir, 17 years old Syrian refugee,while she holds her little girl Bashaer, 3-year-old. She has lost 6 members of his family while she was trying to reach Lebanon trough the Mountains. She is pregnant. On January, a group of Bodies were discovered on a people-smuggling route after a snowstorm hit the Masnaa area. Diego Ibarra Sánchez for The Post
A young Syrian refugee is seen at his tent inside an informal settlement camp in Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. Since the coronavirus reached Lebanon, there have been growing concerns about the spread of the epidemic inside the country’s overcrowded Palestinian and Syrian refugee camps. Dystopia aims to explore the tensions between a political, social, and cultural state of the world after been sacked by COVID -19 and confronting the idea that the future is already here . Dystopia´s project articulate a dystopian landscape from more than 18 photographers and explore their experience of fear, isolation, lost, hope and resilience proposing a future dystopia through images of the present. Dystopia presents a personal photographic work as a “narrative arc” as the COVID-19 pandemic escalates, and its effects reverberate around the world creating a new social fabric mosaic of challenges “Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
A young Syrian refugee plays at the flooded streets of Dalhamiya informal settlement camp. Hundreds of Syrian refugees were rescued from camps in Lebanon on Monday, as storms batter the country, causing tents and homes to flood. Dalhamiya Lebanon
GHAZZE, LEBANON, DECEMBER 6th, 2017: Portrait of Sariya Walid, a five-year-old young Syrian refugee from Damascus, inside a street shop in the Bekaa Valley. He and his family fled the outskirts of Damascus three years after they were under siege for a year with no access to food. During the siege, a bomb fell on the family’s home, burying Sariya in the rubble. CREDIT: Diego Ibarra Sánchez / MeMo for THE NEW YORK TIMES Ghazze Lebanon
Khalida, a 56 years old Syrian refugee from Homs, talks to her daughter inside a chicken farm that was turned into a residential building by its Lebanese owner Mr Fawaz, a Lebanese former military man. Her Husband died long time ago in a heart attack and one of her son disappeared once he got detained in Tartoos 6 years ago. She is struggling to support her daughter to get educated. Kherbet Dawood Village, North Lebanon. September 18th, 2017. Diego Ibarra Sánchez for SAFERWORLD “I raised my children in a very poor environment; I have a very lovely Lebanese neighbors though, we visit each other, there is a Lebanese family who loves me so much and help me when things go tough on me. I wish to go back to Syria: my home , memories , my beloved ones and my mother's grave are there I wouldn't give up on them , there is nowhere more precious than home”
Un grupo de refugiados reparte bolsas de pan en los campamentos de la Beqaa en Líbano durante la crisis del Corona Virus. Los refugiados se encuentran más desprotegidos, por carecer de medios económicos y de acceso a la información y medidas básicas de prevención del contagio. 10 de Abril de 2020. Diego Ibarra Sánchez
Shatila, Beirut, Lebanon. February 2015. A view shows Shatila camp, located in Southern Beirut. Most of refugees belong to families who had to leave Palestine during the Nakba of 1948. However, since war broke out in Syria in 2011, the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon have seen a dramatic influx of Syrian refugees and are completely overwhelmed. Diego Ibarra Sánchez
ANJAR, LEBANON-FEBRUARY 22th, 2017. The son of Sayah El Mosli is seen while he wakes up inside his temporally home located at the informal settlement of Anjar, near the Masnaa´s border with Syria. During six years of civil war, the majority of Syria’s refugee children have been forced out of school, and the longer a child is out of school the more difficult it is to get them back in. Without education, Syria’s children will be a lost generation. Diego Ibarra Sánchez for The New York Times
Tyre, South Lebanon. SHAWAKEER Camp-June 22th, 2018. Rawba, 16 years old young Syrian refugee from Homs, and Abd Al Hamid, 10 years old. They work inside a greenhouse for 5 $ per day. Diego Ibarra Sánchez
Fatima, A 9 years old Syrian refugee form Aleppo attends lessons at her school in – Taalabaya city, Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. She has been in the country for the last 3 years. She wants to be a painter. Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. March 2017. Diego Ibarra Sánchez
Syrian refugees work on the potato season in Kefraya, Beqaa Valley. Host to hundreds of thousands of refugees who have fled the war in neighbouring Syria, Lebanon has witnessed a rise in child labour in recent years, largely in the hazardous agricultural sector. July 2017, West Beqaa. Lebanon. Diego Ibarra Sánchez
Beqaa Valley, 2016. Architecture of Exile: They watch as what they thought would be a temporary stay in Lebanon becomes a more permanent life. Diego Ibarra Sánchez
A Syrian family living in an unfinished building next to Chtaura town, Bekaa Valley. Lebanon. September 13th, 2017. Diego Ibarra Sánchez for SAFERWORLD
More than half of Syrian refugees in Lebanon live in precarious shelters such as unfinished buildings, garages and shops. Their already difficult conditions are made worse by the winter weather.
Beirut, Lebanon. July 2015. Syrian workers labours inside a construction building in Beirut. Syrian construction workers suffer from poor living conditions and sponsorship system restrictions. Even before the flood of war refugees, Syrian workers in Lebanon were often treated with a mixture of condescension or mistrust, in part a legacy of resentment over Syria's 30-year military presence in Lebanon. Diego Ibarra Sánchez
April 10th, 2020. Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. A couple of Syrian widows prepares bread during the lockdown. Lebanon's economic crisis has brought mounting hardship for its roughly six million people. Prices have soared, the result of a dollar crunch that has sunk the local currency since October and eviscerated purchasing powe Diego Ibarra Sánchez
On May 5th, 2023, Yazi, 45, a Syrian refugee from Raqqa tries to rebuild her tent near Marj, Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. She is afraid after the Army intelligence destroyed her tent on May 2nd. Diego Ibarra Sánchez for NRC Lebanon
Una mujer refugiada coge agua en en Valle de La Bekaa. Enero 2019. Diego Ibarra Sánchez
The most important belongings Mohamed’s family took to Canada after four years living in Lebanon. 2015. Diego Ibarra Sánchez.
Hundreds of refugees take ferries every day. The majority are new arrivals from Syria Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli has become a way out for Syrians and a transit point for those who are trying to reach Europe.Syrians do not need visas to enter Turkey, but they need transit visas to enter Lebanon after the government imposed new restrictions as a way to prevent more refugees from entering. August 2015. Diego Ibarra Sánchez
A Syrian women and her son are seeing while they are watching the sunset at the prow of the ferry. Ferry companies sell the trip as an amazing experience full of pleasure with theater, movies an also with a playing room. But it’s in reality a way to transfer people from a country in war into the doors of Europe. August 2015. Diego Ibarra Sánchez / MeMo Lebanon
Farewell through a mirror bus at the assembly point for voluntary return in Burj Hammnoud´s municipal stadium. Hundreds of Syrian refugees return home from Lebanon despite safety fears. Beirut, Lebanon 2018. Diego Ibarra Sánchez
On May 5th, 2023, a group of Syrian refugees from Raqqa, warm themselves with a bonfire in an informal settlement near Marj, Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. Since the beginning of April, dozens of Syrians have been deported as part of Lebanon's harsh policing of the refugee community and as a growing anti-Syrian rhetoric across the country Diego Ibarra Sánchez for NRC
On May 5th, 2023, a group of Syrian refugees from Raqqa, warm themselves with a bonfire in an informal settlement near Marj, Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. Since the beginning of April, dozens of Syrians have been deported as part of Lebanon's harsh policing of the refugee community and as a growing anti-Syrian rhetoric across the country Diego Ibarra Sánchez for NRC
On May 5th, 2023, a group of Syrian refugees from Raqqa, warm themselves with a bonfire in an informal settlement near Marj, Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. Since the beginning of April, dozens of Syrians have been deported as part of Lebanon's harsh policing of the refugee community and as a growing anti-Syrian rhetoric across the country Diego Ibarra Sánchez for NRC
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