After Israel launched its full-scale offensive in Lebanon in September, many fled to the Mediterranean island.
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A Cypriot court sentenced a Syrian man who captained a migrant boat from Lebanon to three years in prison over causing the ...
the captain had told the passengers at some point in the journey to throw any remaining bottles of water overboard in a bid to remove any indications that the boat had departed from Lebanon.
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP ... to stem the arrival of thousands of migrants either by boat from neighboring Lebanon or Syria or from Turkey via the island’s breakaway Turkish Cypriot north.