One year after the blast that flattened the port of Beirut and destroyed a large part of the city, the families of the dead are still looking for answers.
– and the price of food and drink has risen by 670%. That has left 1.5 million people in need of humanitarian and financial aid.
“The militia heads [were allowed] to simply move into government positions,” she said. “They treated the state and its institutions as a war booty. They turned to state institutions into extensions of their own fiefdoms.” Elie Jabbour, 24, a recent graduate with a civil engineering degree, told ABC News that of his class of 100, only two had gone on to find meaningful work, and around half at left the country. Each day comes a period, he said, there are hours without electricity, which has become a daily routine.In this June 27, 2021, file photo, drivers wait in a long line to get fuel at a gas station along the airport highway, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon.
Many young, educated Lebanese are now fleeing the country in search of “dignity,” Rani, a 25-year-old resident of Beirut, told ABC News. He is planning to join abroad.“The situation right now in Lebanon is beyond horrendous,” he said. “We have multiple crises. We have the crisis of the pandemic, an economic crisis, an ethical crisis, a cultural crisis. Education is going down.
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