On Friday, the National Information Agency quoted Lebanese Health Minister Hamad Hassan as saying that the death toll from the Beirut port explosion had risen to 154.

He added that 20 percent of the approximately 5,000 injured people required hospitalization, and that 120 were in critical condition.

For its part, the United Nations organizations collapsed to warn of the tragic situation and the terrible catastrophe that fell on Tuesday evening in the Lebanese capital, which is still searching for its missing persons under the rubble.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights confirmed on Friday that the situation in Beirut is truly tragic

With the displacement of thousands after the destruction of the homes, UNHCR also stressed the great need to provide shelters in Beirut.

The World Health Organization, in turn, warned of the deterioration of the already weak health system in Lebanon, saying that the health situation in the country has become a serious problem after the terrible explosion.

She stressed that there is currently a shortage of beds due to the damage caused to hospitals, especially since four hospitals in the capital were destroyed, while the number of the injured reached more than 5 thousand.

Moreover, "UNICEF warned of the impact of this tragedy on children in the capital, stressing that the damage was done to the homes of up to 100,000 children who were forced to leave their homes.

It also indicated that 120 schools serving 55,000 children were subjected to various damages.

As for the great calamity in Lebanon, which is suffering from an already deteriorating economic and living situation, it was prolonged as a result of the wheat silos, some of which were leveled to the ground, following the explosion of the port.

In this context, the Food and Agriculture Organization and an official from the port of Tripoli (North Lebanon) explained that the Beirut silo destroyed by Tuesday's explosion was the only grain silo in a Lebanese port.

In the face of this tragic situation, the United Nations World Food Program announced today, Friday, that it intends to import wheat flour, grain flour for bakeries and mills to help prevent food shortages across Lebanon.

"The World Food Program is concerned that the explosion and damage to the port will exacerbate the already difficult food security situation, which has deteriorated due to the severe financial crisis in the country and the Covid-19 pandemic," she said, adding that the program would distribute grants. Food for thousands of families.

She assured that "the food program is also ready to provide management of supply and support chains and logistical expertise for Lebanon."

This comes at a time when rescue teams are still searching for about 100 missing persons under the rubble left by the explosion, while the Lebanese curse rises on the ruling political class, and the country escapes and lack of accountability, as well as the absence of the state from monitoring many facilities and crossings.

At the Beirut port, which has become more like a huge scrap yard, rescue workers have been busy from the early morning hours, continuing to search for missing persons among mountains of rubble and piles of grains that have spread everywhere in the vicinity of the collapsing silos caused by the explosion.

A reporter at the search site saw heavy machinery and bulldozers working to lift the rubble, cut huge iron bars and transport freight containers, in preparation for opening a corridor between the rubble and trying to reach the stranded building employees.

French, Italian, German and Russian rescue teams are searching the site for at least seven employees working in the management and control room.

At the site of the blast, the sound of bulldozers violates calm amid great destruction. Car bodies and containers in every corner, heaps of rubble, iron, and scattered goods, including bags of crunchy potatoes and mountains of harmful grains.

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