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A protester covers himself from flames during a protest against deteriorating living conditions and strict coronavirus lockdown measures, in Tripoli, north Lebanon
TENS of thousands of Beirut families remain homeless, six months on from the massive explosion that devastated the city’s port district, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said today.
Lebanon is struggling to cope with a housing crisis amid political paralysis and deepening poverty, which has worsened due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the NRC said.
Some 9,000 homes of the 200,000 damaged or destroyed on August 4 remain to be repaired and an estimated 15,000 people are still receiving support with shelter, food and water. The economic crisis has led to about 70,000 workers losing their jobs.
RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation
