No less than 6,000 Syrians are believed to have crossed into neighbouring Lebanon in the previous few days to flee violence within the coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus.
The world is a stronghold of Syria’s ousted former President, Bashar al-Assad, and a whole lot of civilians have been killed there by the brand new authorities’s safety forces.
BBC Beirut correspondent Carine Torbey is in Tal el Bireh – an Alawite border village in Lebanon the place Syrians have discovered shelter.