#BREAKING #Lebanon Fire in the port again in #Beirut. This is from my car. Its confirmed that a warehouse containing oil and tires is burning. pic.twitter.com/Xdy970lVmB
— Luna Safwan - لونا صفوان (@LunaSafwan) September 10, 2020
Insane fire at the port, causing a panic all across #Beirut. We just can’t catch a break. pic.twitter.com/PtdHehPlz0
— Aya Majzoub (@Aya_Majzoub) September 10, 2020
فرار العمال من #مرفأ_بيروت خلال الحريق الجديد pic.twitter.com/nf8lJNGwiv
— O m a r H a r k o u s (@oharkous) September 10, 2020 A large fire erupted at Beirut port on Thursday, engulfing parts of theSHOCKThe Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross said it had aid in a warehouse that was on fire. "Our humanitarian operation risks to be seriously disrupted," ICRC Middle East director Frabrizio Carboni wrote on Twitter.Beirut's port is used by aid agencies to supply refugees in Lebanon and people in need in neighboring Syria.A military source said Thursday's blaze appeared to have started when cooking oil caught fire and spread to stores of tires. Television footage had shown flames licking up near a pile of tires in a warehouse ruined in last month's explosion.Majed Hassanein, 49, was taking his wife and two children out of the capital by car during the height of the blaze. "I am forced to get them out of Beirut from the smoke and the fire that is happening at the port again," he said.He said his son still suffered from shock from the blast that ruined a swathe of capital and left about 300,000 people without inhabitable homes and shattering windows across Beirut.Carmen Geha, an activist and associate professor at the American University of Beirut, said the fire was further proof of mismanagement by a ruling elite, who have dragged the nation into crisis after years of corruption and poor governance."It's a gross crime, gross negligence and gross arrogance," she said. "You can't trust them to manage anything."Firefighters were shown on television dousing the fire surrounded by mangled remains of warehouses destroyed in last month's explosion, which was caused by a store of ammonium nitrate kept in poor condition at the port for years.