{"id":56548,"date":"2019-12-28T09:38:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T01:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56548"},"modified":"2019-12-28T09:40:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T01:40:53","slug":"wfp-official-urges-return-of-syrian-refugees-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56548","title":{"rendered":"WFP Official Urges Return Of Syrian Refugees In Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Dec 28 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; An official of the World Food Programme (WFP), urged the return of Syrian refugees in Lebanon to their homeland in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdallah al-Wardat, WFP Lebanon Country Director, said, &#8220;The return of Syrian refugees to their country has become very urgent and it should definitely take place in 2020,&#8221; during a meeting with a delegation from Lebanon Uprise, an association for Syrian refugees&#8217; return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The WFP is currently helping 4.2 million citizens in Syria, and 80 percent of Syrian territories are secure now,&#8221; al-Wardat said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also added that the WFP has increased its support for the most vulnerable Lebanese, which means that 85,000 Lebanese citizens receive help through e-food card, offered by the WFP to secure their food needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flow of Syrian refugees to Lebanon weighed heavily on the country&#8217;s economy and infrastructure, prompting Lebanese officials to urge the international community for support in guaranteeing their return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebanese President, Michel Aoun, noted in Nov that, around 390,000 Syrians had returned to their homeland from Lebanon.&#8211; NNN-NNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Dec 28 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; An official of the World Food Programme (WFP), urged the return of Syrian refugees in Lebanon to their homeland in 2020. Abdallah al-Wardat, WFP Lebanon Country Director, said, &#8220;The return of Syrian refugees to their country has become very urgent and it should definitely take place in 2020,&#8221; during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":56551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[198,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56548"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}