Beirut Explosion - Tumblr Posts
my condolences to anyone who lost someone as a result of the beirut bombing 💔 i live in beirut myself and was blessed enough to be spared from injury or loss. please spread awareness about this matter, we need help more than ever
i'm too tired to explain the very extensive list of what fucked over our country and why this could push us over the brink, but please actively educate yourself on the matter and spread awareness, we're a starving and hurting country, y'all showed so much energy for a stupid fucking church in france that was burned down and ignored us when our entire country burned. when we were rebelling desperately against the government. when suicides spiked because parents could no longer afford to feed their children. this deserves more energy than that fucking building got
Beirut explosion - What happened?
This huge explosion shook Beirut, the capital of Lebanon to the core. All of the city was heavily damaged. Shock-waves were felt in all of Lebanon and even in the neighboring country Cyprus (207 km or 128 miles away).
According to Aljazeera news: "Seismologists measured the event, which blew out windows at the city's international airport nine kilometres (more than five miles) away, as the equivalent of a magnitude-3.3 earthquake."
Port Beirut, which is now completely destroyed, is the country's main shipping point in this country that relies majorly on importing food and medicine since the local production is never sufficient. The grain silos that were stored there and contained 3 months worth of wheat were utterly destroyed. The country is facing a very grim future regarding food security.
Amid the most severe economic crisis Lebanon has ever faced, more than 300,000 people have lost their homes, more than 5,000 injured and 137 killed. That is without counting the numerous people that are still missing until today either because they were lost to the sea, trapped under the debris or whose bodies are not yet found...
The Lebanese people are suffering so much, they were already suffering due to the COVID-19 outbreak that exacerbated the country's economic crisis (leading to many people losing their jobs, a 30% unemployment rate, the Lebanese pound losing 60% of its value...) people were barely able to afford their basic necessities, and now this!!! The people cannot take it anymore!!
This corrupt government, which is the reason of the economic crisis, does not even have the decency to take responsibility for what happened! They are not helping the already broken people get back on their feet!! Instead we are relying on help from other countries because those corrupt pieces of s*** do not even have the decency to use the money they stole from people to help them!! Even foreign governments now know that they should not send help to the government or it will evaporate, instead they should send it directly to the people through NGOs. Right now, it's the people who are helping the people and not the government helping the people. We are surviving due to the solidarity between the Lebanese in times of crises and due to the help of other countries.
I am from Lebanon, I live about 3 km away from the epicenter of the explosion. My whole house shook, i thought it was an earthquake, i thought the whole building was gonna crumble on top of our heads (me and my family), i thought then and there that we were all gonna die. But thank God no one was hurt, and that was only due to God protecting us, some of our windows broke, large and sharp glass shards flew inside my brother's room who was having a nap on his bed near the window. My father and sister who were in the kitchen (where the window also broke), found themselves in another room still trying to understand what happened. Brown dust flew into the house from all directions and even entered from the closed windows. The panic, the mix of emotions, the despair, the fear, that immediate moment afterwards when we were trying to understand what happened... Did a building nearby collapse? Was there a gas explosion in the building? Was it a car that exploded in the street? Was someone assassinated?
We never would have imagined that this explosion was so far from our home. That day, on August 4th, a weapon of mass destruction was detonated in the heart of the capital. There are many theories as to what caused it (accident, negligence, attack from Israel...) , there is no way to know the truth since our corrupt government will probably hide it. But one thing is for sure, first we will pick ourselves up, then we will mourn but after that we will have our revenge, the revolution of 17 October will be back, and stronger than ever before.
Everyone please pray for Lebanon, pray for its people, and pray for those people that have already suffered so much.
Wonderful initiative by the lebanese people.
A bunch of NGOs have setup a basecamp to help those who were affected by the beirut expolosion, since, of course, we cannot count on our government except to divide us and use us and steal from us.
We are beautiful people, we are the real government here!
https://youtu.be/-JHXGRmX2q0