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August 4, 2021

Lebanon Marks One Year Since Blast at Port of Beirut Killed 218
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Lebanon is marking one year since the devastating explosion at the Port
of Beirut killed 218 people, injured 7,000 and destroyed or damaged
300,000 homes. Lebanon is now facing its worst economic crisis in
history. Meanwhile, no one in the political leadership has been held
accountable for leaving over 2,700 tons of highly explosive ammonium
nitrate fertilizer unattended at Beirut's port. A new report by Human
Rights Watch implicates senior Lebanese officials for failing to protect
the public.

Aya Majzoub: "Culpability for the explosion still rests with those
officials who knew the ammonium nitrate was being stored at the port in
an unconscionable and dangerous manner, and failed to do what was within
their authority and under their responsibility to secure or remove it."



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