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Tripoli
Friday in Tripoli, the holiest day of the week in Lebanon’s most conservative city. The fighters have knocked holes in the breeze block walls of the buildings so they can move along the frontline without being shot by snipers from the hill above. |
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“Nobody is looking after them.” Families flee Tripoli’s sectarian conflict
Hundreds of Shia Allawi families who have fled the upsurge in deadly violence since 25 July between the Jebel Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhoods of Tripoli are living without basic necessities and have yet to receive support. “Nobody is looking after them. There are many children and they lack the basic everyday needs; food, clothing, medicine,” said Marwan Husseiti, an officer with UNICEF, the UN’s children’s fund, who made a first visit to four Allawi villages in the impoverished north of Lebanon on 30 July. |
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