Sidon – When we go beyond the city of Sidon in southern Lebanon and go towards the cities of Tire or Nabatieh, we see small trucks loaded with iron and scrap.
The sons of southern Lebanon, or those who visit him, are used to seeing these scenes, and these transmitted materials to the plural and treatment factories are taken from the remnants of the destroyed houses due to the recent Israeli war on Lebanon.
This flourishing trade in the south raises many questions about the legitimacy of the work of iron and scrap collectors from the destroyed towns. Some citizens asked these to collect scrap from their destroyed homes, but others complained about entering their destroyed homes without permission, and worked to collect all the minerals that can be collected, such as iron, aluminum, copper, metal plates, and what can be sold in the recycling coefficient.
Complaints
In his town, Blaida, the district of Marjayoun in southern Lebanon, Moussa Faour stands on the ruins of his destroyed house, and talks to Al -Jazeera Net, about the reason for his coming daily to his town, “Every day I come to try to get out of the rubble what can be taken out of luggage and purposes, because there are strangers who enter and take everything, even gas cylinders, because if we leave it here We do not find it later. “
Faour complains about the lack of security in the towns of the border strip between Lebanon and occupied Palestine, as the municipality is unable to cover the entire town in light of the difficult financial situation, as he put it.
He hopes that the state will regulate a patrol to protect citizens in the front villages, because the danger is common to Israel and from the graduates of scrap and iron, who may enter into any house and at any time and steal people without any deterrent.
As for Hassan Daher Kanan, he owned a lattice before the war in Blaida, but she currently stopped working, collecting his luggage and what can be taken out of the rubble, and says that he collects his purposes to sell it and benefit from its price, so that the scrap colleges do not steal it.
And he says in his talk to Al -Jazeera Net: Things speak on “Your eye, merchant” (publicly) .. We hope that there will be a real presence of the state, and that they set the barriers in every town, to protect people’s property.
Municipal position
Al Jazeera Net met, Mukhtar, the town of Blaida Hussein Daher, expressed his regret for what is happening by the scrap and iron dealers, and confirmed that this work is forbidden within the municipal domain of Balida except with a written permission from the municipality.
He says that this matter was circulated by the municipalities to all citizens and scrap traffickers, but no one committed to this decision, which led to these abuses, as the destroyed homes of people and others were stolen.
Mukhtar talks about live testimonies about these abuses, and says, “There is a person who installed a solar energy system on the roof of his house to secure electricity, and after hours he returned to find its batteries stole as well as the electricity converter, and another fixed electricity in his house and left to Beirut and upon his return to the town again, he found the locks of the house broken, batteries and wires stolen, depicting the level of insolence!”
“After your house is destroyed, someone comes and takes iron from him, you are stuck and a person comes to increase your cabinet.”
For gangs of scrap opinion
Al -Jazeera Net, and on its tour of many southern towns, tens of sellers of scrap met, including Wissam Hamada, who pointed out that he comes from the Bekaa region with his friends to collect scrap and iron from the destroyed towns, and stresses that he does not enter any house without permission from its owner.
Hamada says: I am wandering in the towns of the south from Bint Jbeil to Aita Al -Shaab to most of the towns, and I call on the loudspeaker.
Regarding the excesses carried out by the scrap colleges, Hamada denies that he is among them, and confirms that he does not take a piece without the permission of its owner.
As for Hatem Kreik, since the ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel began with the work of raising the rubble from the destroyed houses in exchange for taking the recyclable materials.
He says in his interview with Al -Jazeera Net: “The person connects us and asks to remove the rubble, so we remove all the backfilling and extract iron and recyclable materials from it, and the place gave him a ready -made land ready to rebuild.”
Wide spread of scrap trade
The town of Kafrkla in the district of Marjayoun in southern Lebanon, which witnessed destruction that may be the largest among the southern border towns, in which scrap colleges also spread, as a number of families asked them to collect the possible scrap of their destroyed homes.
Hussein Shit, one of these families, confirms in his speech to Al -Jazeera Net, that he noticed after a period of ceasefire that there were missing objects under the rubble of his house, and he called one of the sellers of scrap in his town and asked him to get all the purposes and what can be sold so that it is not stolen.
Sheet notes that not all the graduates of the scrap and iron can be placed in the same field, but rather a distinction must be made between those who are asked to do these works from the owners of destroyed houses, and whoever does these works without the permission of the people.
