A Qatari delegation distributed emergency refugee aid Tuesday to more than a thousand Syrian families in Akkar, according to the state-run National News Agency.
“There are 1,200 Syrian families benefiting from this assistance and these families are spread across seven towns in Jabal Akroum,” Qinyeh Mayor Ghazi Khaled said.
Tuesday’s aid distribution comes after Qatar dispatched emergency assistance for Syrian refugees and host communities who had been snowed in by a violent storm that battered Lebanon over three days last week.
Two planes belonging to Qatar’s air force arrived at Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport Sunday night, carrying 26 tons of blankets, warm winter clothes, plastic sheeting, tents, and food, and 2 tons of medicines, airport sources told The Daily Star.
Director of the Department for International Development in the Qatari Foreign Ministry Ahmad al-Moraikhi noted Tuesday that the decision to distribute the aid in the Jabal Akroum region in Akkar was taken in coordination with the Social Affairs Ministry.
The director said that the Qatari delegation and the Social Affairs Ministry were organizing the distribution of aid according to the needs of every region, the number of refugee families present in the area as well as their place of residence.
Tuesday’s aid was distributed in accordance with a list drafted by the Social Affairs Ministry that included the names and needs of every family, the director said.
