After Lebanon’s March 8 coalition rejected the Future Movement’s proposal to build Syrian refugee camps on the Lebanese-Syrian Border in Akkar and central Beqaa, the search for an alternative location to transfer the Syrian refugees, especially those in Ersal, has begun.
Sources told Al-Akhbar that the substitute plan is to transfer the refugees into uninhabited or unfinished buildings.
One of the possible places is an unfinished shopping mall in the town of Makse, nearby Taanayel, in the Beqaa region. The mall is a huge building whose area exceeds 120,000 square meter and is owned by a Lebanese expatriate.
On his side, Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas told al-Akhbar that “there will not be refugee camps on the border, because there is a strong opposition in the government.”