Beirut’s residents are in shock and mourning after an enormous explosion at the city’s port, killing at least 135 people, injuring more than 4,000 and displacing some 300,000, according to emergency services.
Yumna Fawaz, a local journalist, described the population as "shocked." "We lost our people and our city. My entire apartment is destroyed," she said. Another witness described "chaos," and said that many friends were injured, with some still searching for family members.
Among the facilities destroyed at Beirut's port was the country's main grain silo — the blast has left Lebanon withNumerous countries have offered to come to Lebanon's aid, including France, the U.S., the U.K., the UAE, Qatar, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, and more unexpectedly, Israel — with whom Lebanon has no diplomatic relations.
Lebanon is facing the most severe economic crisis in its history — which economists are calling worse than its bloody 1975-1990 civil war — with skyrocketing inflation and unemployment and a currency in free fall, largely brought on by endemic state-level corruption and financial mismanagement. People's life savings in the local currency, the Lebanese pound, have seen their value wiped out. The World Bank warned in November that half of the country's population of 6.
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