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thirst starts august 10th on d. w. ah, ah tripoli, in northern lebanon, the poorest city in the country, and located around 30 kilometers from the syrian border. most of the shops in the center are closed down. a booming business just 2 years ago today, the gold market district resembles a ghost town. the only customers now our residents looking to cash in their remaining belongings here. hey, i came to sell you this ring right? oh and this 12, that's 18. carrot gold. this pensioner is parting with her last items of jewelry. they're all she has to ensure her survival. i'm going us. situation is terrible.
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our government is letting us die, not to shame about the jewelry, but i have 4 children to feed me $155.00. that's all they have. okay. then i've got some silver to she's selling her husband's wedding ring to buy some food for her family. yes, did he get a bison flat rice bull gun and a bit of meat? may god help us handling electric? the co tripoli is bearing the full brunt of the economic crisis that has crippled the country, not $5000.00 for a bunch of charged me. a few stalls still have a full range of products on offer, but the price is of food have shot up. how much is the fish 70000 pounds? we've dropped the price by 5000 with thanks. how much for the chicken leg through the 40000 pounds and the next sell for 28000 over. we used to feed them to the
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doctor today. we'd them ourselves on the dollar the chicken legs, and the fish fillet cost $15.00 times more than they did 2 years ago. but while prices are going through the roof, wages across lebanon have remained static, and as seen in tripoli, getting enough to eat that has become a daily challenge. trouble. i just imagine back in the days of our former prime minister who the government now calls incompetent, get this bag of rice cost 2500 pounds today. it's 7 times that hey, how's that supposed to work? how a poor people in this country supposed to 8 of the 128 representatives or rather complete idiots. there's not a single one of them who's decent and humane, hopefully my field dummy oh, raging discontent has been building now for several years. on october 17th, 2019, it exploded for the
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1st time since the end of the civil war, a broad cross section of lebanese society joined together and took to the streets in unison to demand that the corrupt government resigned. it wasn't so long ago when lebanon was described as the switzerland of the middle east. the economy was strong, and the country attracted investment from all around the globe. the small country shares borders with syria and israel. for decades now, government cabinet positions have been assigned by religious affiliation and distributed among christians, sunni muslims, and shia muslims. a delicate compromise that had long been stable but everything changed in 2019 the banking system collapsed. investors and dollars fled the country. inflation rose to higher than 140 per cent, the highest rate in the world at that time. if we only in the course of what we
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stand in, the lebanese pound or lira lost to 90 per cent of its value. lots of monopoly money would have appeared the monopoly. this unprecedented crisis has plunged a large portion of lebanon's population into poverty. if it pelican, if it hadn't been for the christian community, they would have starved literally starved on, on all this the government failed to maintain investments. now electricity is supplied for just a few hours each day. that's lebanon to day. and for over a decade now, lebanon has also had to master an influx of 1500000 refugees from syria, some blame the government for driving the country to bankruptcy. also given an supposed control over entire sectors. this is one of the loss corrupted areas. love, even 11 am. i believe in the universe. the crisis has re ignited tensions between
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the different religious groups. for many lebanese, their last resort is to leave the country. hands up if you want to lead lebanon off to college. it's the only hope of a better future and reflects a lebanon fighting for its survival. this is osher of j. a christian district of a root father gabriele is getting ready to say mass. he's catholic, a jesuit and french speaking like his congregation and the majority of the countries christian middle class. people come here to do more than hear the word of the lord. many are also in attendance to hear the critical words of the priests sermons. this is today's gospel is really timely. what should we do?
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good christmas is just around the corner and we can only hope for the penitence of our political class. you can only hope that our political class asks in the sense of saint john, what should we do? he would tell them, give back the money you stole and leave this land. go work on your hands on the french riviera. i won't say more because i want to sleep in my bed and you do too long who's gabrielle makes politically charged digressions like this because he's experiencing the crisis 1st hand. you'll make it if you've gotten to them, i'll give you 10 kilos a mile. every week the priest leaves they route and travels to because a mountainous region and the eastern part of the country. just like he does, every time he gets in his car, gabrielle checks the fuel gauge. they
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come that the answer. every time the tank is down to 2 thirds and get gas so it doesn't feel like you're paying so much that will mother up please. the price of gas has risen $6.00 fooled within one year. but how much my brother? 300000 t go he but i got thanks. while so we're filling in for you 300000. let's math lesson say from so 20 leaders of gas costs half the monthly minimum income in lebanon, exorbitant prices that severely limit the ability of people to get from a to b. said the last, it's amazing that there's hardly any traffic for what it gets. imagine the off to tree off and harris at rush hour on a monday with about 2 thirds fewer cars and then deals of the plant. i think that's
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the way it is. here one is disassembled and suck. gabrielle consternation stems from the fact that 3 years ago, lebanon was doing pretty well. gasoline was cheap, people had worked, the currency was stable today, it's all falling apart. and members of the country's middle class are among the 1st to lose out. they'd been called the new vo pope, the new poor with after a 2 hour drive. father gabriella arrives. exactly. since the start of the crisis, the christian city of $80000.00 residence has become a ghost town. there's not a soul to be seen on the traditional shopping street. the elderly and isolated
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residents are experiencing the worst societal degradation in their history. a local charity group helps the poorest of the poor, godly. i lends a hand with its members every week. how are you, father? and i find thanks keith. we've got a lot to do to day mother. the hood to the biggest of our goal is to get hungry. people who don't have money, something to eat, because they're prepared meals, dental jackets, because of these. here are the salads. so here we have desserts, as of it, and beset, and those are the warm meal jelly flesh. rookie, so not to day father gabriela is working alongside to rashida and uh, let's go to jeanette as she is on it. i put everything on the table for you when, when and how about the bills? this friday. you can share my brother's help me and every month they give me a little money. honda paid with god bless you. my sister the charity supports more than $200.00 families. when where can i put this together?
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i know. mm hm. oh okay. how are you? my dear father, thank you for coming. thank you. christie, alaska in lebanon pensions can be paid out monthly or be received in a one time payment. sadala was a teacher for 30 years and chose the lump sum option. 300 euro's. it's lovely here mozilla. celia missed the who we used to be better off and could buying heating oil and weren't and now everything's extremely expensive. the i have trouble with my eyes and need injections, but a single injection costs 800000 pounds. plus the doctor's fee of $350000.00. he didn't give me the injection this month because i couldn't pay for the one from last month. so what if you miss an injection?
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the law he prescribed drops and sent that i should come back in 6 weeks. time may give it the law. what can i do? me can give them how can you live like this on the i think if, when you only earn a quarter of what you spent and ended up on it of in the bill, i'm masterful not to vouch, doesn't them? huge injection costs, the equivalent of 50 euros. gabrielle does all he can to help her. i can hear take the 300000. that's for the shots. it's from jesus or had them on this thanks. it's too much. at the end of the street, they find greater hardship and rage. this family has lived here for 20 years. the father used to be a painter. he's jobless. now. in the current economic situation, it's impossible to find another job. they simply have no income. inside there's a tiny kitchen, a toilet, and a living room, which the entire family also uses as
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a bedroom. and the refrigerator is desperately bare. come over, what do you do when you want to make a new for the family? oh, sometimes i go to the market and the vendors give me food. they haven't sold for tele otherwise. they're still the johan a restaurant. we can get some food that to f. x was on, the gog isn't forgetting us. well maybe dubbed it, he said, because the mother puts her faith in god while her husband looks to human assistance such as that provided by gabrielle. oh, how do you use the heating let her alone so it's the so forth until hockey no, it's just the shows. huh. she biase, she on the law that he doesn't make you mad that the state doesn't take care of you to say that we had a letter. what can i say? i don't have any work. and i've got 5 people debate from sam nickel. and that not me, if you have the state to state. sure. what state law we'd stop without the help of
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these charities i, if you were working before the crisis, you could pay your electric bill. no trouble. don't go with the inflation. we have to day. that's impossible, it's far too expensive homes me. how are you supposed to manage without going out on the street and begging me to uh, militia, down cri, 136 percent of the population lives in extreme poverty. that's nearly 5 times more than 2 years ago. so the community, what would have happened to this family without the christian community? cuz they would have starved. he's literally literally starved lee gun or modify lucy, well, you're a law shibel communities across the country, whether christian muslim or drew's are relying on local charity to survive. nobody saw this kind of brutal economic collapse coming in which for many people daily
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life has become a nightmare within just 2 years. and should have fought a southern suburb of a root. we visit a grocery store. brianna has been running the shop for the last 4 years. the ongoing crisis in the country has seen him become a master of improvisation. murphy, god, oh, there's no electricity any more. so i can't shut my blinds any more. the government hick, mom in sacramento. now he has a new morning ritual. no. so once i get here, if i turn on the phone and check the dollar exchange rate law dollars a dish. the lira and the dollar have always existed side by side and lebanon's economy until 2019 the exchange rate between the 2 currencies with stable with $1.00 equal to $1500.00 pounds. the exchange rate changes daily. on this morning,
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a dollar was worth $21000.00 pounds, almost 15 times more than 2 years ago. i de mom bought the dollar right, keeps rising. so supply price is a rising to. but after continually adjust my prices, you can you give me the calculator machine as your own low ok mix? well, that's, di makes 1.2 liters. circle costs today. cost 16800 pounds. so we put 80 percent onto that and okay. price it at 19824 pounds puppy this a 1000 me out of our scene. that's how he's now pricing is products which even he has trouble finding. the state is only providing one to 2 hours of electricity a day in this area. to keep frozen foods from spoiling ryanne has had to make further adjustments out about my finance. i can't be selling products that make
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people sick. so i decided to only keep using one freeze and unplug the rest. i've also had to reduce my selection as if by magic, the electricity comes back on at noon. the staff can get back to work as normal eggs, potatoes, and that's all for more than a year. now, re odd, hasn't earned a proper profit at his shop. some months he doesn't even break even ah, lebanon is currently a shadow of its former self in more ways than 1 may root was once the night light capital of the middle east. but for most those all night parties are now a distant memory. with the dollar has become a scarce commodity in lebanon.
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a series of foreign investors left the country in 2019 due to dwindling confidence in the lebanese government. their departure sparks, the nations financial collapse. the lira lost almost to 90 percent of its value. with lebanon's banks set severe withdrawal limits for those lebanese who had dollars. the aim was supposedly to prevent the state going bankrupt. rebecca hasn't had any access to some of her bank accounts since 2019 so here it says guards limit exceeded. so i cannot to enjoy anymore as if i exceeded the limits, but i haven't to enjoy any of the others in more than one year. so yeah, as tracy she does have more than $10000.00 on this account. but in light of the situation in lebanon, it's impossible to say that money still exists. oh,
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i see one press, one not to press your daughter, and one live in the you know, whether you good, fresh diaries, fresh dollars is all the daughters that were transferred from outside after 202019 . the other daughter is the one to stuck in the bank. this is everything that you have done is before 2019. you can also do any of the any, any of what you just see it. and you can have her fill the only fresh you can read these fresh dollars or a can to the holy grail. for those who have access to them, they come from outside the country and are now worth a fortune when exchanged against the d valued local currency. they've led to the development of a new privileged social class. our next stop is a beach resort nearby truen, an hours drive north of they route. here, there are a number of people who have been left unscathed by the crisis.
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the big supermarket chains are still crowded. if they're gone, you joseph, now in his early forty's, moved here 4 years ago, this is my village. i'm here often show up at about 3 or 4 times a week. and joseph is a sales representative at an international pharmaceutical company, and he gets his monthly salary in dollars. what found the where are the ride promoters? nice and ripe ones. ok, thanks to those fresh dollars, joseph and his wife romane, now live like royalty and ruin lebanon down call, expensive now, in lebanon. well, did you live in a stable? yes. not lebanese. the, by no, i n,
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but lebanese with fresh money. so essentially, you know, when you type of lebanese and you type of lebanese before, it was like for $10.00, only the bottom now for the loop and it's like a 2000. they cannot afford it anymore. it's nothing for me. 2000 lire. josephs, monthly salary as $3000.00 or $60000000.00 lebanese pounds. have you become rich? yes, i've gotten rid of a new one. we're buying every day. items we don't look at the price anymore. rolled me as a primary school teacher. she's paid and, and he's towns without joseph's dollars. she wouldn't manage to get by now the couple have no reason to worry when they approach the check out their bill to day 685000 pound livable. that's equivalent to $30.00 about equal to the minimum monthly wage in lebanon. a minimum wage that has plummeted by
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a factor of 15 in 2 years. it's now lower than the minimum income in afghanistan. joseph and his wife have built a house in this residential area in the hills above la truen. they started the undertaking in 2017 when they took out a 20 year mortgage for $50000000.00 lebanese pounds. but with a local currency collapsing, their 150 square meter house, cost them only about $2500.00. it was a sum they paid back in 2 months. ah, yes, russia. there are 3 rooms on and a 4th room on the upper floor in the back oh fault, but found that a shawl. we're only using it as a storage room right now. nobody's chum, but we have 3 flows. so 02, i thought you see this sunday they've invited friends to lunch. oh oh
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oh, joseph receives his guests with a meal fit for royalty. they need i think more than minutes. he wants to share his new well with others in a very rummy as a public servant, for example, each month he's paid and lebanese pounds. so for this friend of the couple buying a $6.00 bottle of wine was a huge expense in gym to rebut a smash de la, i get paid about 80 or $85.00 a month. that's enough to fill the car twice with gas in the hub, benzene before then. i owned about $1200.00 and lost many now about $80.00. the difference is enormous either. i mean, despite the inflation and lebanon wages have never been adjusted, get there. oh, good luck. as the friends make a toast of joseph adds up, hang in there. only about 13 percent of the lebanese population are paid in
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dollars. every one else is paying a hefty bill for this crisis. the absurdity of the situation has driven some to campaign for a fairer economy. rebecca has an appointment with her lawyer as usual, there is no power across the country. you'll hear the same reaction if it's something that they do the vol that's lebanon today. he said, is it a year ago, rebecca decided to file a lawsuit against her bank for illegally withholding her dollars. it would suggest that what happened was we were supposed to have an appointment at b plus banking. this is yes, but they canceled it. i don't know when we'll be able to resume proceedings in the novel. unfortunately, nothing is moving in our direction at the moment,
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but we shouldn't give up. 07. 0, good job. was less than no. there's no law allowing this informal freeze on her and other people savings of a came and fixed that so anyway, the banks were closed for weeks because of the protests is all over. and when they opened off the 2 weeks, there was nothing left on june on mafia. if we're really dealing with a mafia that decided to steal people's money by transferring it to their own accounts abroad. if you are these people call a titian, some bank is and the governor of the central bank is on re i'd salome if we pci the monkey. i reckon it's the biggest scam in history. we're talking here about $100000000.00. not that just disappeared. la, now found the find a the saw me out. the last you on this about a political and business elite is being blamed for, impoverishing the country to benefit their private interests. and 2019 a french broadcaster asked the governor of the central bank rayon salami about the money that had been wired abroad a little bit. if it's ross fed exist in lebanon,
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we're free to transfer money. the video fee dump we're under, but we're examining events from an ethical standpoint to see it politically exposed . persons who transferred money abroad use their positions in a way that might constitute an abuse of power in an abuse. oh, of course to learn fully short ironically react salami is himself one of the people accused of taking part in this massive capital flight as a private individual. though that he and his brother have around $300000000.00 on one of their bank accounts in switzerland. so is that consistent with his bank salary? i, if you certainly not, but the lebanese banking sector is said to have been functioning for decades like a ponzi or pyramid scheme. a fraudulent financial scam that promise has very attractive interest in order to pay the latter. the banks use the money they get
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from new customers, but when that source of money dries up, the pyramid collapses. when the 1st investors fled lebanon, the entire country ended up paying the price. well, if a thong there are people like rebecca's parents who worked their whole lives, loan and thought, and we saved money for our retirement or to allow our children to study abroad a volume and now they're left with nothing. the whole thing is the bank heist of the centurylink. so full song in iraq. as you said in 2016, a study showed that 90 percent of the majority shareholders and lebanese banks were relatives of politicians. mm. nepotism of this kind has already had devastating consequences. oh,
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on august 4th, 2020 warehouse number 12 exploded in the port of bay root. it's contents $2750.00 tons of ammonium nitrate a highly flammable and explosive fertilizer stored unattended loo. the horrific accident destroyed entire districts of the capitol within a radius of several kilometers. in total, it left $218.00 people dead, and more than 6 and a half 1000 injured. to the surprise of some, after the disaster, the president of lebanon appealed to the resilience of the lebanese people, rather than focusing on an emergency plan that you know, with the young ladies and gentlemen, that were to day favorite, is trying to raise itself from the ruins. and you need to come up with the efforts of every single lebanese and with their support, the cities wounds will heal to them and it will rise again,
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just as it has always done in its history. cohen all that mirror around october 30th. ah, the relatives of the victims have yet to find peace even to day. on the 4th day of every month, they gather at the board to remember their loved ones. santini, today's my jessica's birthday. i know what it's like when a mother cannot celebrate, had daughter's birthday. ah, no home at all. in the space of seconds, my soulmate, my wife, had been taken from me. silly. i spent 34 years with her. so in my the issue is a highly sensitive one, with many blaming the government the subsequent investigation was entrusted to, to rec, better, a judge said to be incorruptible,
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a remedy, and lebanon. man, all i want is justice, and i hope judge be tar. see this through to the end. all of us here support him. i had the initial, uh, i, but, but tars investigation got bogged down this day, march the 3rd time, it was suspended. members of the government who refused to be questioned, were obstructing his work through legal challenges. i mean, not the judge knows the truth and we know exactly who killed these victims and blew up the port of hamburg. one, no matter what finds out. and there is one man in the country who has a special degree of interest in this case. oh hello. oh, yes. before we better than been before, another me lucia moved beyond kobe. c is an investigative journalist who was relentlessly trying to get to the bottom of the country's corruption. every morning
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his drive to work takes him past the port a is here somewhere here. idle from the outside, not from the inside because i'm of a lot. yeah. according to kobe, see, several members of the government knew for years about the ammonium nitrate being stored at the port. this is one of the most corrupted areas. not even 11. am i believe in the universe, like the black hole of corruption. the says the next and this place is kind like of a microcosm of level is up, but i did my, my famine appointed. my mother has elected them about the process. you cannot be appointed there is that only that you have to be affiliated with a certain part or the other. some people actually love some people,
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the most of them made a lot of money in order to be appointed here for example, and come for the custom controller with all calculations used to be fade like 2000 dollars per day per day bear day. and if he could, he got only $2000.00, but then he would be pissed. according to official statistics, the port earns about $200000000.00 us dollars and income annually. kobe's. he says that without the corruption, that figure would be close to $25000000000.00. the journalist takes risks that he takes on the powerful after one of his investigations, he was physically attacked a few years ago by a port official since then, he's been taking precautions my own surveillance system. there are like 10 cams inside the car just to make sure that in case anyone decided to attack me just to have my story documented. his wife is a presenter with the same broadcaster. ah,
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miss ali this yeah. are you proud of his work? we may. yes. but sometimes he gives me headaches. i might add a death. why? that's good because it's dangerous. i'm afraid something bad will happen. yeah. coca shows de my employee. yeah. leanne. he's scared for you. yeah, i mean i'm sending him a as in every time i'm sending him vents that sam, it's awesome. you're never going to change your what i told you, i to act like a gazelle didn't talk. why i'm of you. and kobe's, he refuses to be intimidated. the journalist has published the results of his investigation of the port blast online. his website features the faces of politicians linked to the incident and makes all the evidence he's collected
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available. that includes a letter written by colonel joseph's gaff. back in 2014, the customs official had already been sounding the alarm noon. there's a ship by the name of ross's, stockton key. number 11 in the port of beirut. on board is a large cargo of a dangerous explosive. the constitutes of danger to public safety. we ask that the ship be removed from the king. ultimately, no action was taken. the colonel died in suspicious circumstances in march 2017 despite suspicions of murder. the investigation said the cause of death was an accidental fall. this combination of fed through lodge of the gold, the does of negligence of corruption. this is the pure mixture of the bomb by itself. i know that there's a lot of corruption in mexico may be and many other counties what not like and live on why. why? because there are countries where they're like dominant mafias by level on
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this cult is owned by the mafia. so they all were called a country drifting, rudderless, and to make matters worse, it's hungry. in this situation, just the tiniest spark could cause tensions to escalate and explode. which is what happened in october 2021 followers of the shia amal movement, which is allied with the powerful has ball a party were demonstrating in front of the palace of justice. they demanded that the christian judge to rec, baton, be withdrawn from investigating the explosion at the port. they accused him of being under the influence of foreign powers. and in particular of targeting, she a politician's
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sectarianism the plague lebanon was back. late in the afternoon, heavily armed demonstrators went to the entrance of the christian order in bay root . within seconds of the situation took a dramatic turn. as the demonstrators came under fire, the subsequent st. battles between christians and she has lasted 5 hours. 7 people were killed. all of them, shia ali is 60 years old since his youth, he's been a militia man and the armed wing of the shia amal party. a passing she, a resident then joins the conversation. her building was among those that came under the heaviest fire a sort of
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a federal head. we were watching the young people on the street, and then suddenly they started shooting from this site. and evelyn ran away. i brought up on the 2nd, was sickening. where do you live? but what story? i did the thing i a lot of it we were in the apartment. the resident then agrees to us visiting her home as she takes us along to see the damage, the she a militia man, ali follows right on our heels. her home. she's been living here for 14 years with her husband and 3 children. i've been angela. we hid in the bathroom, there was no way out. the shots came from this side. this wall was riddled with bullet holes becca. it was horrible, but we were terrified that the family filmed the hellish scenes on their phones.
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her youngest son abbas is 13. he still in shock when he saw it put this up as a barricade to protect ourselves if they came with a rocket launcher. there were 4 of us here. one got, were you afraid of the rocket launchers or yes, they had rocket launches and fourteen's m sixteens and a few grenades, so as, as abuse and per the good. why think i was here not was my name. it was head of it my father here. oh birthday see him but his ear, my son, my sister further away and how long were you in there? oh, at least 2 and a half hours does 2 and a half hours. yes she will you scant. tabitha, a bit not. not sure about the whole family was evacuated after what seemed like an
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eternity. are you afraid it was start again? yes, yes, of course. express, but i live with the stress on the hello. hello, kate reminded me of the civil war. i thought here it goes again. the family does not want to see the different religious communities at war with each other. their children go to a christian school and alongside the koran, they even have an image of the patron saint of christians and lebanon. no vase as our neighbors are christians, muslims, all religions with one hipaa. that's not the problem. at the same time, it almost seems as if ali is getting ready for a possible return of civil war slash neck. but men, us like all of lebanon, his arm to had a mom was there now, and there are weapons everywhere design salaam in the 1990s show, the militia had to surrender their arms to the government kilowatt anonymous. that the amal group did a tooth ebi lately, but when they began to provoke us again, we went out and got some other guns and one up. yet as well as
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a militia men hold. i'm not afraid of. i'm ready to go to war for my parting is a lot of law cubans al jerry, an alarm his gave this. i don't agree with what he sang or that it's an absurd war as a she, it's not in the interests of any one in lebanon to live like that on a lot of manion, but not least for love. you live. we want to live in peace and raise our children in peace. mamma never had the letter. it's nonsense that every citizen should be armed had on the model to her the one who did what the new lungs. 8 the ghost of bloody sectarianism returned to haunt lebanon on that fateful day. even if a majority of people in the country are trying to exercise this specter. 1000000 lebanese have already left this broken land. public services in all areas have come to a standstill. the government allowed health services to fall into disrepair
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as a did public construction projects and the power grid tired of promises of a better life that will never be realised. some are ready to risk their lives, to flee the country. among them is mohammed who lives in tripoli. let him go the little get out of the kitchen that the 35 year old former to her guide lives with his entire family in this 2 room apartment with his mother, his sisters, and his 4 children. in october 2021. he and his son jose tried to enter europe illegally by the see the plan was to have the rest of the family follow after they got there. but the trip was a short one. but it wasn't for sure. mannequin nathan, they were 82 of us and we bought a big boat now. both to be at plan was to go to italy and from day each of us would
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find their own way through europe. one is log arkansas, slumber doodle, but fate had different plans. we lost everything. so mana, was the turkish coast guard, arrested us, she not a stub. and when did we meet again? why then, why did aetna in jail you were in jail? oh yes. okay. and how old were you? then? there are 7. i was there were 16 people to a cell in jail. it was tough. just imagine it. my son was sleeping with me on a bench that surrounded by desh terror with mana, out of her being though esh. mohammad and his son were arrested during the crossing to europe and spent 29 days in jail before being sent back to lebanon. ah, in spite of the traumatic experience, the temptation to leave, the country has become even stronger for the family.
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oh, really. when you look at the see what you think. i think about a day when the weather is good and we can set off again on the block. and that's your dream had move. i just want to leave this country with my children, and they will set off again. yes. and why? because people die every day. as lebanon continues to be ravaged by a crippling financial crisis mohammed and host som look out to see hoping that maybe there is a better life waiting for them. beyond the waves and the horizon. there have never been this many deaths at europe's external borders. the enclave of militia, between morocco and speed. it's also where a true, a city needs asylum seeker tried to cross over to here i'm barely surviving. he
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