In August, people queue to buy bread from a Tripoli bakery after the central bank effectively ended subsidies on fuel imports (Reuters)
“There is no bread, there is no work,” says Ibrahim Katab, speaking in his home on the outskirts of Lebanon’s northernmost city of Tripoli. “It’s very hard.”
He doesn’t blink when five gunshots echo off the buildings a street or two away, followed seconds later by several more. “People don’t have food, don’t have jobs, don’t have gas,” he says. “So if you don’t have these things, you fight.”
No bread, no work: Lebanon’s Tripoli faces growing hunger crisis | Middle East Eye
