This is the fourth and last article from my visit to Lebanon in late February 2019. This time I want to share my impressions from a visit to the Bekaa valley, an area where more than 340 000 Syrian refugees were living at the time of my visit.
It´s the last week of my stay, and I have just left my friends in the Palestinian refugee camp Rashidieh in southern Lebanon, to join a group of young Palestinian volunteers on a relief supply mission to a Syrian refugee camp (or rather an informal settlement) in the Bekaa valley. As you may understand from reading my previous articles from Lebanon, my feelings after getting a glimpse into the daily life and struggles of the Palestinian refugees are quite mixed to say the least, but by the end of this day, I will experience conditions even worse. But I´ll start with a bit of context information...
