Syrians who were refugees in Lebanon return to their home country after a five-day journey to the northern of Idlib province where they are received at a temporary resting point in the town of Qah, on October 4, 2024. Lebanon became home to hundreds of thousands of Syrians after the repression of anti-government protests in Syria in 2011 sparked a war that has since killed more than half a million people. But intensifying Israeli strikes on Lebanon since September 23 have prompted 310,000 people to flee to Syria, most of them Syrian refugees, according to the Lebanese authorities. (Photo by AAREF WATAD / AFP)
