David Cameron says British aid has prevented ‘hundreds of thousands’ of refugees from trying to reach Europe – but aid agencies reject claim

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‘Hundreds of thousands more Syrian refugees would have “risked their lives to get to Europe” if it were not for British aid, David Cameron claimed, as he arrived in Lebanon to witness first hand the humanitarian crisis engulfing the region.

Mr Cameron travelled by army helicopter to the Bekaa Valley, which is now home to 400,000 of the million Syrian refugees in the country who live in unofficial make-shift camps near the Syrian border. There are now almost as many Syrians living in Bekaa as Lebonese.

At a UNHCR-operated camp, less than a mile from the Syrian border, some 500 people, including many children, were crowded into 90 tents laid out in ranks behind a breeze-block wall.’

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