Assad regime is taking advantage of the Lebanese refugee crisis and asking UN for further support for recovery
The “Jusoor Center for Studies and Development” confirmed that Assad regime is taking advantage of the displacement crisis from Lebanon to Syria in an attempt to gain the support and cover its negative position on the Israeli war, in addition to its attempt to lift the Western sanctions as it previously did after the earthquake disaster.
Assad regime is seeking to show what is happening in Lebanon as a worsening humanitarian crisis that increases its burden on it, according to Jusoor Center’s report.
The report made it clear that Assad regime government deliberately shows the deteriorating transportation crisis in the areas under its control coinciding with receiving the Lebanese and Syrians to use it as a tool of coercion on Iran to get further support in petroleum products.
The report pointed out that it is expected that Damascus would use the propaganda of deteriorating transportation crisis to bargain with “Autonomous Administration” of the Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria for increasing the oil shipments which it supplies, in exchange for launching a round of bilateral negotiations, after refusing to resume it in the recent period.
The report pointed out that the Assad regime is working to distract the public of the “Axis of Resistance” from its position on the war, in light of its policy of political and military disengagement in dealing with the “Hezbollah” militia, and is content with issuing statements of condemnation and calling on the United Nations to intervene to stop the war.
The United Nations has previously confirmed that approximately 425,000 people have crossed from Lebanon to Syria since the escalation of the Israeli aggression against Lebanon, including 28% Lebanese and 72% Syrian refugees, noting that women and girls are exposed to human rights and humanitarian violations.
It stated that the Assad regime seeks to exploit the crisis politically, seeking international support to ask for lifting of the sanctions imposed on it and taking advantage of Lebanese emigrants and Syrian refugees fleeing Lebanon as the main pretext for this.
