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SUMMARY: As the civil war in Syria rages on, refugees have fled to nearby Lebanon. Unfortunately, that move has brought new challenges, including inadequate supplies, discrimination, winter weather and hunger. The NewsHour sent video journalist Paige Kollock to Lebanon to report on the crisis first-hand. Ray Suarez reports.
RAY SUAREZ (Newshour): Twenty-two months in and showing no signs of abating, the fight for the future of Syria drags on. Both sides continue to wage all- out war, with more than 60,000 dead and the plight of Syria's displaced and dispossessed only growing worse.
At this tent camp in El-Marj, in the eastern part of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, only 25 miles from the Syrian border, refugees are struggling to adapt to a new, impermanent reality and to winter temperatures that routinely drop below freezing.
ABU MOHAMMED, Syrian refugee: If you want me to compare between living here and living in Syria, we're not living here.
COMMENT: This is evidence of how criminal Bashar al-Assad's war is destabilizing the region.
Meanwhile the UN (including my U.S.) sit by and wring their hands. They are adding and abetting a criminal.
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