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It’s been a month after the Beirut port explosion, the situation hasn’t changed much after that, as poverty and immigration rates continue to rise, amid instability due to the new Corona virus.
Beirut had experienced a terrible explosion, on August 4, 2020, as a result of the outbreak of a fire with a huge reserve of ammonium nitrate, estimated at 2,750 tons, which was stored in the port of Beirut.
Explosion #Beirut… from many angles#View for free#the big bang
Follow the latest news from Lebanon and the big explosion that hit the port of the capital Beirut via the Al-Hurra website ⬅️ https://t.co/gBFnrwum9i pic.twitter.com/87LHI9bvmj– Alhurra Channel (@alhurranews) August 5, 2020
On the occasion of the one-month anniversary since the tragic event, the Lebanese have taken to social media to reveal their thoughts.
Who, like me, feels like Beirut, when life has been assaulted or hard on us, or has tried to break us. Whoever finds us like Beirut rises from under the rubble and cleans the dust from us and smiles at life.
– Suheir Al-Taqsh (@ SouLu2121) September 4, 2020
What effective operational steps are you taking to save #Lebanon And return to the living buried under the rubble Port explosion؟
What are the advances in research that we promised a month ago?
What is the strategy to save our economy and our currency?
They answered us @LBpresidency
– ah md (@ ahmed_jamal92) September 4, 2020
Today and a month after a crime Beirut port explosion General sentiment among authority officials still fluctuates between “something and it happened”, “I did not press the detonation button” and therefore “I am not responsible”. #Lebanon
– roland barbar (ffoffzrecord) September 4, 2020
One month into the world’s third largest explosion
Nothing has changed 💔Port explosion pic.twitter.com/7518ZmNQxK– Nisrine Zawahra (@nisrinezawahra) September 4, 2020
The rescue dog “Flash” received a notable part of the tweets from the Lebanese, who arrived with the Chilean rescue team, and sensed the presence of a person striking under the rubble despite the passage of a month after the accident, while others they questioned this possibility.
Now from Mar Mikhael: Lebanese Red Cross volunteers with “Flash”.#Beat_beirut pic.twitter.com/JO3291ClZM
– lucien bourjeily (@lucienbourjeily) September 4, 2020
Like all Lebanese, we pray for the pulse that resisted for a whole month under the rubble, and we salute all the friends of Lebanon who helped in this great ordeal, especially the Chilean team that showed their love for Lebanon, and greetings to the heroine “Flash”.#Beat_beirut pic.twitter.com/FjJLLvjIC8
– Misbah Ahdab (@MisbahAhdab) September 4, 2020
The dog Flash, a member of the Chilean rescue team, is the hero who sensed the presence of the missing and threw the rubble. pic.twitter.com/brNsLsbPOW
– Homer (@ SHE5WN6ON) September 4, 2020
At the end of the 30 days after the explosion, the number of human and material losses has largely stabilized, and on the occasion of the painful anniversary, Reuters published facts and figures about the Beirut port explosion.
1- The explosion caused housing and infrastructure losses estimated at $ 4.6 billion, in addition to other economic losses estimated at $ 3.5 billion.
2- Poverty rates increased from 28 percent to 55 percent in 2019, as a result of the economic crisis, the Corona virus and the recent bombing.
3- The explosion killed 190 people, injured 6,500, left 300,000 homeless and damaged some 50,000 homes.
4- Hunger is expected to worsen, with more than 50 percent of the population at risk of not having access to basic foods by the end of 2020.
5- The capacity of the port of Beirut, “the most important window for imported food”, to handle grain imports, was reduced to about a fifth of its capacity after the explosion.
6. Lebanon needs US $ 35-40 million over the next three months for an immediate and large-scale cash transfer to meet the basic needs of 90,000 affected people and create short-term jobs for 15,000 people.
7- Some Lebanese have started to leave the country, while a research company confirms that the number of flights leaving Lebanon has increased by 36 percent per day since the explosion, while the word migration in the search engine of Google in Lebanon has reached the top of the most searched words in ten years.
Between 8 and 25 thousand foreign workers in Lebanon, most of them from Ethiopia, Bangladesh and the Philippines, were directly affected by the explosion, 150 foreign workers were injured and 15 people died.
9- Hospitals, health centers and maternity wards were seriously damaged by the explosion and some 4,000 pregnant women were displaced, requiring prenatal care.
10- Approximately 640 historic buildings were damaged due to the explosion, which has cultural significance for Lebanon, including 60 historic buildings that are vulnerable to collapse.
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