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UNHCR sounds alarm as over 200 000 Lebanese refugees flee conflict into Syria

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The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) held an emergency meeting on Tuesday, requested by France and Indonesia, after three UN peacekeepers were killed in southern Lebanon within a 24-hour period. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, cautioned that violence along the Lebanon-Israel border is escalating marked by intensified clashes, daily rocket attacks, air strikes, and increased troop movements near the Blue Line. For a look at the suffering and uncertainty facing these families as they flee one crisis only to enter another, Tsepiso Makwetla spoke to Rula Amin, the Senior Communications Advisor and Spokesperson for the UNHCR Regional Bureau for the Middle East and North Africa

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