Residents of Arsal Criticize U.N. Agencies over 'Insufficient' Aid to Syrian Refugees

Residents of the border town of Arsal in eastern Lebanon demanded on Saturday the international agencies to assume their tasks and aid the Syrian refugees in the area.

They accused U.N. officials in a statement of "only providing help for 150 Syrian families out of some 600 families."

The residents of Arsal called on the international agencies, particularly the European organizations, to swiftly intervene and offer help to the refugees.

“We are working according to our conscience and what our historical relations with our neighboring people, who are being subjected to daily atrocities, dictates,” the statement added.

Nearly 27,000 Syrian refugees had fled the crackdown in their country to Lebanon according to the latest report issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, more than 14,400 people have been killed since the uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime erupted in mid-March 2011.