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submitted 3 months ago by Billy@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/world@lemmy.world

At around 4 p.m. on Sunday, hundreds of people began to gather in downtown Beirut, near Martyrs' Square and the Karatina fire station, to commemorate the four years since the explosion at Beirut's port on Aug. 4, 2020. On the placards held up by demonstrators already at the scene were calls for justice for "Beirut and Lebanon."

"It is Hezbollah that is responsible. It is obstructing the course of justice," denounces Nada, who lost her nephew.

Caused by the ignition of large quantities of improperly stored ammonium nitrate, the explosion killed at least 235 people, injured a further 6,500 and devastated entire districts of the Lebanese capital. Ammonium nitrate is a combustible chemical compound commonly used in agriculture as a fertilizer, but can also contribute to the manufacture of explosives.

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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Reported as an "unknown source", and, yeah, it's under the radar of MBFC and other sites for bias and credibility.

L'orient le Jour is a daily French language newspaper in Lebanon, they've been going for 50+ years now. https://today.lorientlejour.com/ is the English language web presence for the newspaper.

Politically, they lean left. I haven't seen any complaints of bias other than they are anti-Hezbolla and anti-Hamas.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Orient-Le_Jour

"L'Orient-Le Jour takes a fierce line against Hezbollah, and also against elite corruption in Lebanon. It was one of the few Arab news outlets to say that the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel was an unjustifiable massacre. Topics that are still taboo in Lebanon, such as homosexuality, domestic violence, suicide and abortion, regularly appear in its columns.[6]"

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