Safadi accused of not helping Syrian refugees

Lebanon’s Future bloc MP Mouin Merhebi said on Sunday that Finance Minister Mohammad Safadi “did not transfer the necessary funds” to aid  Syrian refugees in Lebanon, as  the Lebanese Red Cross on Sunday transferred two wounded Syrian children to a hospital in North Lebanon’s Akkar, the National News Agency NNA reported. The injured Syrians were transported to Lebanon via the northern border, according to the report. According to NNA, Merhebi said the cabinet-approved funds were not transferred to the Higher Relief Commission, preventing the organisation from fulfilling its mandate. Thousands of Syrians have fled the unrest in their country, which according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has left over 9,100 people killed since protests erupted in the country in mid-March 2011.