Storms in Lebanon have flooded Syrian refugee camps, ruining tents, mattresses and food and compounding the misery of people enduring powerful winter winds and biting cold.
More than a million Syrians fled to neighboring Lebanon since war broke out at home in 2011, and U.N. agencies say most live of them live in poverty.
"There is almost half a meter of water on the ground and in the tents ... the war in Syria forced us into this situation," said Hussein Zeidan, who came to Lebanon from Homs in Syria in 2011.