Incapable to support his wife and four daughters, a Syrian hanged himself in Sidon, the capital of southern Lebanon, illustrating the plight of refugees fleeing civil war in their country and now struggling to survive without help or travail.
"He told us he was going to buy food for the children. Not seeing return, we sought and we found it on the floor, hung with a wire," said to AFP his wife Rima Bakkar, as choc.
Mohammed MELSI, 35, lived in the south of Damascus before fleeing like thousands of other hell fighting between supporters and opponents of the regime of Bashar al-Assad, to find shelter in Lebanon voisin.
Arrivé a month ago with his family, he settled in the Palestinian camp of Ain al-Hilweh, where rents are cheap. Sitting in a hospital ward al-Aqsa camp, his widow tells the tragédie.
"Mohammed suffered a lot because he was unable to find work in the camp. He tried in vain to earn a living to feed his family," said Rima, whose words are interspersed sanglots.
Originaire Idleb, Northern Syria, the father worked in a textile factory in the capital, until the fighting daily shelling and airstrikes pushed him away mid-décembre.< / p>
Mais Lebanon, where NGOs are overwhelmed by the influx of refugees, not expecting that the financial downfall. Tell the neighbors that hard put to find work, sometimes picking up the pieces of metal found in the streets or maisons.
"His psychological condition has worsened, especially when it could no longer pay the rent, milk and medicines for our youngest daughter who is eight months and asthma," says Rima.< / p>
A the floor of the house, the node is still suspended above the mattress, next to a small stove that Mohammed used to warm up when he came to smoke so as not to disturb his daughter asthmatique.
La news of the suicide spread quickly in the camp and his friends are in shock. Rima accompany residents to his home. She holds her baby in her arms while his three other daughters, the eldest of whom was 12 years, suivent.
Face to this drama of misery, Fuad Osman, a member of the popular Palestinian camp of Ain al-Hilweh, blame the "refusal" of international organizations to "take responsibility" .
Selon him, Syrian refugees suffer from discrimination, including from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) "who refuses to distribute medicines and food rations" because they are not Palestinians . But UNRWA has also terrible lack of budgetary constraints contributions suffisantes.
Le UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Lebanese authorities estimate at 200,000 the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon because of the violence that shook the country for 22 mois.
Le Lebanese government divided the Syrian conflict, called in early December for $ 363 million face the burden, particularly financial, which is hosting the réfugiés.
Une donor meeting is scheduled for late January to Kuwait to mobilize humanitarian assistance to civilians syriens.
Devant the entrance of the house Rima, women gathered. "The tragedy in Syria has pushed this family here. Whether God helps," laments Najiba Ali, a neighbor âgée.
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