‘Unprecedented’ hunger in Lebanon as fuel crisis hikes food costs

Families skip meals and forgo staples as Lebanon’s paralysing fuel crisis causes food prices to skyrocket.

Beirut, Lebanon – Mohammad sat in the smaller grocery store where he worked and flipped through the pages of a notebook, filled with a long list of customers indebted to the shop.

“More and more people are struggling with money and asking us to let them pay later,” the 30-year-old Syrian refugee from Deraa told Al Jazeera, as a growing fuel crunch has led food prices to skyrocket.

“We have to try to be patient with them. Things have become much worse with the fuel crisis over the summer.”