The United Nations began registering Syrian refugees in South Lebanon on Wednesday for the first time since the beginning of the Syrian conflict last year. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN’s refugee agency, registered nearly 100 people on its first day at the new site in Ghaziye, just south of Sidon, with an additional 1,700 having approached the body for registration. But those numbers pale into insignificance when compared with the 13,000 Syrians estimated to be in the area. Click here or on the map below to explore our interactive infographic mapping UNHCR registered refugees across Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Iraq. The graph will be updated regularly in the coming months. The new branch comes as the increasingly bitter civil war is continuing to force thousands of Syrians to flee their homes. There are now more than 70,000 registered with UNHCR’s Lebanon branch, (as well as another
Ben is a Beirut based investigative journalist. He served as Executive's resident data geek from 2013 to 2014, and as managing editor from 2014 to 2015.
