A Warning Signal for US? Corruption, Gov't Gridlock, Pandemic, drive half a Million Lebanese Children into Hunger

Last month a World Food Program Study found that...

66% of households in Lebanon have suffered a loss in income during the pandemic;

Many of these families have had to
a. dig into their savings,
b. go into debt, or
c. spend less on food.

20 percent of Lebanese families have missed meals or gone without food for as much as a day.

30% of the Syrian refugee families have skipped meals for as much as a day.

50% of Lebanese are afraid of not having enough to eat.

but 63% of Palestinian refugee families (expelled from Israel in 1948) have that same fear.

and three fourths of Syrian refugees in Lebanon have food anxiety

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