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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 559

Bachir El Khoury

Lebanese wait in a line outside a closed petrol station in Beirut's Hamra district on August 20, 2021.(Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
August 21, 2021, 4:37 am
‘Hell on earth’: Lebanon unlivable as economic, fuel crises deepen
Residents line up for days to get gas, while electricity only runs for 2 hours a day, and a lack of street and traffic lights creates a dystopian feel in the once vibrant country
By Bachir El Khoury
Lebanese soldiers are seen at a gas station in the capital Beirut, on August 14, 2021, after soldiers were deployed to force several stations to reopen their doors. (Anwar Amro/AFP)
August 14, 2021, 8:47 pm
Lebanese army seizes hoarded fuel at gas stations amid financial crisis
Snatched resources distributed to desperate customers instead; leading hospital says it may have to close due to fuel shortages
By Bachir El Khoury
Lebanese soldiers pass burned tires as they clash with protesters, during a protest against deteriorating living conditions and strict coronavirus lockdown measures, in Tripoli, Lebanon, January 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
January 30, 2021, 6:54 am
What’s fueling Lebanon’s lockdown protests?
Over 400 injured as protesters rage against restrictions they say starve them, and anger mounts over government mismanagement of multiple crises
By Bachir El Khoury
An injured man walks at the explosion scene that hit the seaport in Beirut, Lebanon, August 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
August 5, 2020, 3:48 am
Lebanese PM: 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate caused ‘disaster in every sense’
Hassan Diab says agricultural fertilizer stored for years in a portside warehouse blew up in massive explosion heard in Cyprus, 150 miles away
By Bachir El Khoury and Rouba El Husseini
View of the border fence between Israel and Lebanon in northern Israel, February 16, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)
June 23, 2020, 12:03 pm
Sudanese jobless in Lebanon risk lives to try to cross border into Israel
Local economic crisis is pushing some to attempt perilous crossing over heavily guarded frontier in the hope of finding employment and a better life
By Bachir El Khoury and Rosie SCAMMELL
People look at the broken facade of Bank of Beirut that was smashed by anti-government protesters in Beirut, Lebanon, Jan. 15, 2020 (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
March 8, 2020, 6:30 am
Lebanon to default on eurobonds as financial crisis intensifies
PM Diab says move ‘only way’ to stop reserves from depleting amid severe liquidity crunch and months of anti-establishment protests
By Bachir El Khoury
This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA on October 20, 2018, shows Abeer Shalgheen and her four children after being freed by the Islamic State jihadist group that kidnapped them on July 25 during a raid by the extremists on the southern province of Sweida, Syria. (SANA via AP)
October 20, 2018, 8:23 pm
Islamic State frees 6 Syrian Druze women, children in deal with Assad regime
Monitor says IS to receive 60 of its prisoners, $27 million as part of swap for members of ethno-religious minority taken captive in the war’s deadliest attack on the community
By Bachir El Khoury
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