Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi: Egypt's hands are stretched out to support Lebanon
Today, Wednesday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi stressed that Egypt's hands are extended to the international community to unite and harness all possibilities to support Lebanon and build a better future for its people.
Al-Sisi said that “Lebanon, which has always been a beacon of culture, art and thought, and an important tributary of Arab creativity, is still able, with the determination of its sons, to rise from the current setback, and return again to be prosperous and unique as we like to see it.”
This came during Sisi's participation, this morning, via video conference technology, in the International Conference in Support of the Lebanese People, which is being held at the initiative of French President Emmanuel Macron.
The conference comes on the first anniversary of the explosion of the Port of Beirut, which occurred on August 4, 2020, due to the explosion of a quantity of ammonium nitrate, which damaged a number of the capital's streets, killing more than 200 people, wounding more than 6000, and leaving 300,000 people homeless.
The explosion also destroyed 226 schools, 20 training centers and 32 university campuses. Investigations have not revealed until today how the explosion occurred.