Perhaps the harshest consequences of wars and crises that countries go through usually come on children, who are not to blame for everything that is happening around them.
Which is exactly what she experienced Lebanese baby She became the talk of social networking sites during the past hours, following a video clip spread to her in the hands of her father trying to give her to a security officer on the road, repeating phrases in the Lebanese dialect: “Him her. He has money to buy food to feed his baby.
The father appeared with his child, no more than a few weeks old, in his hand. He rushed to a security man, giving him his liver, while people gathered around him, supporting his words regarding the difficulty of living in a country he once called “the Switzerland of the East.”
The cries of the burned man and his tears flooded his eyes, stressing that he had no money to feed her, while the crowd tried to calm him in vain.
His shouts resound in the center of the capital: “What seemed to be eating, what seemed to be eating,” in reference to his infant daughter.
A person’s voice can also be heard saying to the security officer: “Give it to the orphanage, you shame on yourself.”
Unbearable economic situation
Lebanon has witnessed since 2019 An unprecedented economic collapseThe World Bank has ranked it among the worst in the world since the middle of the last century.
The deterioration of the exchange rate of the lira once morest the dollar, which crossed the threshold of 27 thousand, greatly affected the way of life of the Lebanese and hit all aspects of life in the small country, to the extent that the Lebanese people’s consumption is limited to basic items such as food, if available.
Also, access to electricity at an average of 20 hours a day has become, most of which provide private generators as “luxuries” with the monthly subscription price exceeding two million pounds.
The economic crisis was accompanied by political paralysis that prevented taking reform steps to limit the deterioration and improve the quality of life of the population, more than 80% of whom are below the poverty line.
Even medicines for chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, heart medicines and cancer medicines, although they are still officially supported by the state, but they are not available at all in pharmacies, and the Lebanese are trying to provide them either by their relatives and friends abroad, or they buy them from Turkey and Jordan, or they exchange and share what is available from Doses and pills thereof.
