Bread bundle sold for 35000 LBP in Nabatieh

Only 10 bundles of bread were given on Friday in Nabatieh for each bakery or store, while bread bundle was sold at the black market for 35000 Lebanese pounds. 

 

This as Syrian families in the square of Kafrjawz town seized more than twenty bundles of bread from a van belonging to a bakery, and paid for them.

 

Citizens resorted to purchasing cakes, pastries, and Markouk bread after bakeries ran out of flour, despite the removal of subsidies and the increase in the price of a bundle of bread to 16 thousand pounds.

 

Head of the National Federation of Employees' and Workers' Unions in Nabatieh Hussein Wahbi Mogharbel warned against “targeting the loaf of the poor, workers, the disadvantaged and the vulnerable.”

 

“If the flour ran out, then the Central Bank should step in and pay the credits and import wheat,” he stressed.

 

He also noted that “the government must provide flour and devise a plan to deal with this matter before it becomes a caretaker government."