Understatement and Palestinian Refugees

Palestinian refugees: Of those displaced by the violence, more than one million have sought refuge in neighbouring Lebanon, according to Huffington Post Canada. It would be an understatement to say that Lebanon is struggling to keep up with this challenge. The civil war -- now entering its fourth year -- has now claimed more than 200,000 lives and forced more than three million people to flee the country. The small Mediterranean state is already home to more than 450,000 Palestinian refugees. The situation will not get any better soon. There are a further 50,000 displaced Lebanese civilians who fled to Syria during the fighting in 2006 and have since returned to their home country, and Syrian refugees now account for 26 per cent of the total population in Lebanon. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.