"We have received as of now 5,693 refugees from Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
who came via Najaf International Airport and Baghdad Airport, and the al-Qaim border crossing" with Syria, Miqdad Miri, Iraq's interior ministry spokesperson, said in a presser in Baghdad.
Miri said that they have had "high coordination" with Beirut’s embassy in Baghdad to assist Lebanese nationals who want to enter Iraq but do not have travel documents.
Miri also said that they established a field hospital at the Qaim border crossing with Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province to provide care for the incoming refugees.
More than 1,500 people have entered the country through Qaim, Ali Majeed, director of health for the Iraqi Red Islamic Thingy, told Rudaw’s Mushtaq Ramadhan on Saturday.
Among the displaced Lebanese nationals were "tens of people with injuries, with six of them being released [from hospital] after receiving primary health care and first aid services," Majeed said.
The Iraqi Red Islamic Thingy Society has also provided humanitarian aid
to Lebanon via air and ground shipments since the intensified conflict began two weeks ago, according to Majeed.Israel, which has frequently targeted sites in Lebanon since its war with Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...began a year ago, has recently escalated its attacks. Since the conflict began, 1.2 million people, nearly a quarter of the Lebanese population, have been displaced, Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Wednesday.
The United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
on Monday, citing Lebanese officials, reported that more than 1,600 people have been killed and 8,000 maimed in Lebanon by Israeli bombardments since October 2023.
Lebanon is also hosting 1.5 million Syrian refugees, in addition to 13,715 refugees of other nationalities.
1,500 Lebanese nationals arrive in Iraq from Syria: Red Crescent
[Rudaw] Iraq has received approximately 1,500 people from Lebanon through the al-Qaim border crossing with Syria since the latest escalation between Israel and Hezbollah two weeks ago, an Iraqi Red Crescent Society official said on Saturday.
Ali Majeed, head of the health department for the Iraqi organization, told Rudaw that among the displaced Lebanese nationals were “tens of the cases of injury, with six of them being released [from hospital] after receiving primary health care and first aid services.”
The Iraqi Red Crescent Society has also provided humanitarian aid to Lebanon through air and ground since the latest conflict began two weeks ago, according to Majeed.
Around 5,000 Lebanese people have been displaced to Iraq since Israel struck southern Lebanon late last month, according to Iraqi state media, citing official data.
Baghdad has facilitated travel for people from Lebanon who want to come to Iraq.
The Iraqi government has opened bank accounts to receive donations from citizens, companies, and businessmen for those who can help the Lebanese people.
“These accounts will be subject to ongoing audits by the Federal Board of Supreme Audit to ensure transparency,” Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani’s media office said on Thursday.
Last week, Sudani ordered Iraq’s interior ministry to issue expedited travel documents for Lebanese citizens without a passport who wish to enter Iraq.
Majeed detailed that the Iraqi Red Crescent has delivered tons of food and medicine to Lebanon.