Ahmed Yahia Dabbas, a Syrian refugee who fled to Lebanon over a decade ago, returns to Syria with his family after their home in Beirut was destroyed during Israel's retaliatory bombardment.
Ahmed Yahia Dabbas fled to Lebanon more than a decade ago to escape the relentless bombardment and frequent airstrikes carried out by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and its Russian allies in northwest Syria. Dabbas, 37, moved to the southern suburbs of Beirut, where he found work as a doorman and began rebuilding a new life away from his war-torn country. He and his wife welcomed four children, two boys and two girls, now between the ages of 4 and 9.
Dabbas spoke with Fox News Digital from northwest Syria by phone in an interview translated by the Syrian Emergency Task Force , a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit and advocacy group, where he described his family’s five-day journey from Lebanon to an area liberated from Assad regime control and the challenges they’ve faced as displaced people. 'We had gone to Lebanon to escape bombardment and war followed us,' he said.
Syria's not safe,' Moustafa said. 'Anywhere regime-held, it is where people would rather continue walking after walking for so long.' The U.N. refugee agency said in early November more than 470,000 people — around 30% of them Lebanese and 70% of them Syrians — had crossed into Syria from Lebanon to escape Israeli bombardment.
The whole thing needs to be stopped. People need to return to their homes to end the suffering, to get their lives back.'
SYRIA REFUGEE LEBAON ISRAEL WAR
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