Word: beirutization
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...While the bombardment of Beirut airport makes front page news, small strikes like these are spreading disruption over a larger area. "The entire logistics of the country are coming to a halt," Minister of Public Works Mohammed Safadi told TIME...
...Supplies - fuel and drinking water especially - are running short, and there seems little immediate prospect of resupply from Beirut. U.N. staff are negotiating with Israel to grant safe passage to a resupply column and also to allow APCs to rescue trapped villagers looking to leave and transport casualties to hospitals. The response from the Israeli military, according to Strugar, "was not forthcoming...
...ongoing Israeli air campaign has hamstrung the government's ability to cope with the flood of refuges trying to escape the Israeli onslaught in the south and in southern Beirut. Volunteers have had to take matters into their own hands. "We are welcoming thousands of refugees," said Salim Abu Ismail, the president of the civic center in Baaqline, the largest town in the Chouf, an oasis of calm amid the escalating violence. But the town is struggling to keep up. "Fruits and vegetables are available from the farms but some supplies have to come from Beirut. This will...
...Outside the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees office in east Beirut, Abdou Shafai Ismael, 38, from Sudan, has a story that contrasts sharply with that of the American tourists and students being floated to safety on Norwegian cruise ships. While they may complain about having to pay back the U.S. government for the costs of their evacuations, from the darting look in his eyes, I think Ismael would go to great lengths (perhaps questionable ones) in order to have a spot on a boat to Cyprus. Many of the 100 or so other men milling around...
...Beirut's poor and stateless have the U.N. to look after them, Beirut's rich and almost-rich can look after themselves. The signs of a mass exodus of Lebanon's wealthy class are everywhere - and telling. The city's ATMs, which normally disburse both Lebanese pounds and American dollars, are now only spitting out the brightly colored pounds, a sign that those who could have already fled - and took their hard currency with them. I took out 1 million pounds today, about $670, but I worry about how long that will last. Even the Western Union is unable...