Lebanese TV channel: President Aoun must resign

A six-year-long ticking bomb, it describes the thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse at the port since 2014. 

Beirut, also called the pearl of the Middle East, has been covered in ash, debris and broken glass since Tuesday. The people of Beirut have gathered strength and together are cleaning away from the destruction that has left hundreds of thousands of people now homeless. 

At the same time, anger against politicians, corruption and the political system is growing. 

"We are furious," Beirut resident Jumanah Zabaneh told TT on Wednesday.

- It's time for us to change our rotten system. We need transparency in how our public funds are used, how community services are handled, and we need accountability.

In recent days, there have been reports that the government has known that the highly explosive material has been stored in such a crucial place for the country. And not acted, writes the New York Times.

The television channel MTV demanded in a broadcast that the president resign. According to news anchors, they will no longer call him president, but from now on he will only be addressed to Michel Aoun. 

On social media, a hashtag is trending, which in Arabic means "hang up the snares". 

“Months ago, we wanted them behind bars. Today we want them all dead. Nothing less ", writes a user on Twitter.

The huge protests of the autumn certainly led to the formation of a new government, but the criticism from the activists has been that they are really the same old players - the ministers only have other names. 

Michel Aoun has said that those responsible will receive severe punishments and on Tuesday, all officials involved in the storage and security of the port were placed under house arrest.

In folklore, Lebanon is called a phoenix, which repeatedly rose from the ashes. The country has been plagued by war, destruction and explosions for decades, but the question many Lebanese are now asking is: "When is that enough?".