The signs of fatigue are obvious on the faces of the Lebanese General Security staff charged with stamping the passports of people crossing the Syrian-Lebanese border.
One General Security officer complained about the non-stop convoys of displaced Syrians entering Lebanon. "When the military situation escalates in the Damascus countryside, our work intensifies here. Sometimes we receive more than 500 Syrian and Palestinian refugees in a single day. At other times, things are puzzling, as the number of Syrian refugees coming from Syria is equal to the number of those returning to Syria," he said.