The United Nations has issued an appeal for more help as the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon is now a million. Although it is estimated hundreds of thousands more undocumented Syrians are in the country.<br /><br />Officials say a lack of funding for the world body is seriously hindering their efforts to feed and shelter people fleeing the conflict.<br /><br />Syrian beggars now walk the streets of the capital Beirut and informal tented settlements have sprung up around the country.<br /><br />Syrian rebels and their Lebanese allies fight openly with the army and militants from the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, which supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a war now in its fourth year.<br /><br />Last month, Lebanon’s foreign minister said the crisis was “threatening the existence of Lebanon”, still recovering from its own bloody 15-year civil war that ended in 1990.
