The indictment of politicians over the Beirut blast gives hope of some accountability

Yet even that won’t undo the damage done to the hardest hit by Lebanon’s multiple crises, writes Bel Trew

Aerial view of ruined structures at Beirut’s port (Getty)

In the  departments of Beirut’s destroyed Karantina hospital, the staff are busy working in what looks like a forlorn bombsite along a now-abandoned front line of a former warzone.

The medical centre is located under a kilometre from the warehouse of explosive materials which blew up the Lebanese capital in August, killing more than 200 people and injuring thousands more. And so, the government building and the neighbourhood surrounding it appears to have been chewed up and clawed out by rioting giants.

One of the nurses lives in a nearby area which was also destroyed, so she is staying with relatives since she cannot afford to fix her home.  Her salary is now worth just £75 a month because of Lebanon’s financial collapse, which has seen the value of the local currency tumble by more than 80 per cent.