• Scores of refugees and migrants clapped and cheered as she walked through the Kara Tepe camp, taking photographs and giving her notes.
    Scores of refugees and migrants clapped and cheered as she walked through the Kara Tepe camp, taking photographs and giving her notes.
  • “It is impossible to really understand the magnitude of the crisis until you come face to face with it,” Queen Rania said after speaking with refugee women in the camp.
    “It is impossible to really understand the magnitude of the crisis until you come face to face with it,” Queen Rania said after speaking with refugee women in the camp.
  • ”These people have gone from suffering to suffering and the one thing I keep hearing time and again is that if they had a choice they would be back in their homes; that this was a last resort.”
    ”These people have gone from suffering to suffering and the one thing I keep hearing time and again is that if they had a choice they would be back in their homes; that this was a last resort.”
  • More than 4,000 refugees and migrants are living on Lesbos, most of them behind the barbed wire fence of a disused military camp.
    More than 4,000 refugees and migrants are living on Lesbos, most of them behind the barbed wire fence of a disused military camp.
  • About 850 people, mostly families, live in Kara Tepe, a municipality-managed site from which 12 refugees were flown out by Pope Francis last week after he visited the island.
    About 850 people, mostly families, live in Kara Tepe, a municipality-managed site from which 12 refugees were flown out by Pope Francis last week after he visited the island.
  • Queen Rania had been invited by the International Rescue Committee (IRC), an aid agency which has installed showers, toilets, laundry facilities and lights at the site.
    Queen Rania had been invited by the International Rescue Committee (IRC), an aid agency which has installed showers, toilets, laundry facilities and lights at the site.
  • Jordan has accepted more than 630,000 Syrian refugees registered with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Most of them are living in poverty outside the refugee camps, according to human rights groups.
    Jordan has accepted more than 630,000 Syrian refugees registered with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Most of them are living in poverty outside the refugee camps, according to human rights groups.
  • At the latest count, some 8,000 refugees and migrants on Greece’s islands could be returned to Turkey if their asylum applications are rejected.
    At the latest count, some 8,000 refugees and migrants on Greece’s islands could be returned to Turkey if their asylum applications are rejected.
  • “This is a crisis about human beings, not about borders and barriers. It is about human dignity, not about deals,” Queen Rania said.
    “This is a crisis about human beings, not about borders and barriers. It is about human dignity, not about deals,” Queen Rania said.

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Queen Rania visits refugee camp on Lesbos — in pictures

Rob Gurdebeke

April 25, 2016

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Queen Rania of Jordan met refugees at a camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday in a visit to highlight the plight of people she said had ‘seen unspeakable horror and experienced unthinkable tragedy’. All photos Royal Hashemite Court via Getty Images

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