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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East?
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'It's freezing now. I seek refuge in God': Plight of the Syrian refugees dying of cold in Lebanon after authorities refuse to grant their camps official recognitionBy Damien Gayle11:35 13 Dec 2013, updated 13:00 13 Dec 2013



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Eastern region near the Syrian border struck by snowstorms this weekUNHCR concerned that conditions this winter will be 'very harsh'There are as many as one million Syrian refugees living in LebanonBut government refuses to grant their refugee camps official statusIn a makeshift camp a few miles from the border in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Ibrahim sat in his tent where the dirt floor had turned to mud.

Strong winds blew snow in the entrance and children huddled in one corner around a fire in a metal crate.

'The storm will finish us. It's freezing now. I seek refugee in God,' the 27-year-old Syrian refugee told Reuters.



Chill: A youngster braces against the cold at a camp for Syrian refugees in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley after the first winter snows fell there this week, bringing fresh misery to the hundreds of thousands who have fled the warChill: A youngster braces against the cold at a camp for Syrian refugees in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley after the first winter snows fell this week, bringing fresh misery to the hundreds of thousands who have fled the war



Syrian refugees play with snow: This week's storm, dubbed Alexa, pushed temperatures below freezing in northern Lebanon and some areas of the Bekaa Valley, which is dotted with informal refugee settlementsSyrian refugees play with snow: This week's storm, dubbed Alexa, pushed temperatures below freezing in northern Lebanon and some areas of the Bekaa Valley, which is dotted with informal refugee settlements



A young Syrian plays with snow following a storm in the town of Arsal in the Lebanese Bekaa valley

A Syrian refugee boy stands in a pool of mud outside his tent the makeshift refugee camp of Terbol near the Bekaa Valley town of ZahlehThe season's first snow settled in parts of Lebanon this week, giving refugee children who have fled the war in Syria the opportunity for a snowball fight outside their tents.

But, children's games aside, the winter weather heaped another layer of misery on the already grim existence of many of the estimated one million Syrians in Lebanon who have fled the civil war raging in their homeland.
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