Hezbollah blast

Composite work made from videos sent by my Lebanese friends, August 4th 2020.

Hezbollah blast

I have spent part of the night on the phone with my Lebanese friends. Not a single window pane intact in Beirut, within a radius of 30 kilometres; they shattered as far as Cyprus. The media, this morning, is way off the mark: the number of injured is in the tens of thousands, transported to all hospitals across a country already weakened by the economic and healthcare crisis. The apocalyptic explosion, much too enormous to be caused by a bomb, and following a fire, is due to a Hezbollah ammunition and explosives stock. This depot should never have been located in the urban port zone.  Yet again, Hezbollah ! The Shia Islamist militia, responsible for the dilapidation of Lebanon, armed wing of Syria, protecting the looters of the most beautiful country of the Middle East, forbidding all reforms and blocking all foreign aid, is responsible for this destruction of the city of Beirut. My thoughts are with Karyn, Billy, Monique, Jean-Paul and all the men and women of Lebanon as I pray that this cataclysm will wake the international community, beginning with France.