BBCNEWS BBC News August 4, 2021 09:42:00
It is very hard. but i try to not let them feel my pain. i try my best. i stand on one leg and go and play with them. i try to make them not hate lebanon for what happened to me. the port explosion has been another painful symbol of the decay in the system. the country was already facing its deepest financial and economic crisis. more than half the population is living in poverty, amid crippling shortages of medicine, fuel and electricity. the destruction of huge parts of the port and neighbouring areas plunged the country into misery. —— compounded the national plunge into misery.