(MENAFN) Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah movement, said on Friday that the international organizations and some Lebanese actors have been intimidating Syrian refugees and asylum seekers displaced by war and who want to return to their country from Lebanon.
"According to our data, there are some international organizations, and certain local parties, which intimidate the refugees and provoke concerns about the return," Nasrallah told the Al-Manar broadcaster.
The Hezbollah leader urged for an action to ensure a safe and comfortable return to Syria of those willing to go back to their homeland.
Since the beginning of the Syrian military conflict in 2011, millions of Syrians have fled the country to other states, including neighboring Lebanon. The situation around Syrian asylum seekers and refugees in Lebanon has recently exacerbated in a wake of the authorities" claims that the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR had been discouraging those displaced by the Syrian war from returning to their home country.
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