Lebanese bus, truck drivers block roads over soaring prices
Arab News says Lebanon’s public transport drivers blocked roads on Thursday, paralyzing traffic throughout the country in protest against the manipulation of exchange rates that has left them out of pocket.
A driver in downtown Beirut said: “We can barely afford hospitalization or medicine. We are begging healthcare associations for our rights that the state is supposed to secure for us.”
Banks did not open on Thursday, as employees were unable to get to work, while schools and universities were also closed.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2004031/middle-east
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