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Beirut / Youssef Hussein / Anatolia
The Lebanese army announced, on Monday, the resumption of the process of distributing compensation to those affected by the explosion in the port of Beirut.
The explosion in the port, which occurred on August 4, 2020, killed about 200 people and injured more than 6,000, as well as massive material damage to residential buildings and commercial establishments.
“The army units in question have resumed the process of distributing compensation to those affected, as soon as the amount of 50,000 million Lebanese pounds (about 33 million dollars) was transferred to the army treasury,” the army said in a statement. statement, which Anadolu Agency received.
The statement noted that “the number of homes that benefited from these compensations, which are classified as medium and sub-average, amounted to 356 homes distributed in various areas of the capital, Beirut.”
Previously, official Lebanese institutions distributed around $ 99 million to those affected by the blast, in various installments, before distribution was stopped last month.
Damage from the Beirut port explosion was estimated at more than $ 4.5 billion, including the port and areas that destroyed more than 85,000 housing units between homes and offices.
The catastrophic explosion aggravated the situation in a country that has been suffering for months, an economic crisis that is the worst since the end of the civil war (1975-1990), and an acute political polarization, in a scenario in which interests Clash between regional and western countries.
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