considered as Bread crisis in Lebanon One of the old, renewed crises plaguing the country. Recently, the queues and clashes between customers in front of the bakeries have significantly worsened, amid a severe economic crisis and a significant shortage of wheat stocks since the explosion of the port of Beirut.
The bundle of bread has become a daily battle waged by the Lebanese citizen, despite its high price, its scarcity in ovens, its light weight, and the large number of prosthetic solutions offered by the government without any benefit to improve the thorny situation.
As for social media, a number of activists circulated videos and photos documenting the miserable situation of the Lebanese people in front of the bakeries that can no longer meet all requests and fill the hands extended to them with a loaf of bread.
“Queues of Humiliation”
Voices denouncing the state of poverty experienced by the Lebanese people rose, denouncing the quarrels and quarrels that occur between customers to obtain the bundle of bread.
Fatima Abdullah described the pictures that are circulating on the communication sites as “tragic”, noting the division of the Lebanese scene into two contradictory parts: “the vigil, joy and celebration of the return of life, in exchange for humiliation, hunger, poverty and contempt for dignity.”
For his part, a member of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, Sadiq Alawia, criticized the lifting of the subsidy for the price of a bundle of bread and the lack of monitoring and accountability of the concerned authorities.
The Minister of Economy in the caretaker government, Amin Salam, revealed that the subsidy on flour will be lifted, which means that the price of a bundle of bread may reach 30 thousand Lebanese pounds, pointing out that the agreement with the World Bank is to end subsidies on flour.
While the Lebanese journalist Joyce Al-Hajj denounced the current crisis, wishing that the war days would return because they were better, as she put it.
The bakeries and bakeries unions have demanded security protection for the bakeries to prevent any clashes with the crowd, warning in a statement that they “will not continue to work amid the chaos and queues that prevent them from carrying out their role without problems in this delicate period that the country is going through.”
It is noteworthy that Lebanon depends entirely on importing wheat for the manufacture of bread, and wheat importers are facing difficulty in importing due to the failure of the Banque du Liban to open credits.
and affected Lebanon is largely affected by the Ukrainian crisis Because it imports more than 70% from Ukraine, and could not Mikati government Yet finding alternatives despite the many promises it makes.