In Lebanon, Deir Ammar Power Plant and Zahrani Power Plant, which supplies 40 percent of the country’s electricity needs, stopped production for more than 24 hours due to fuel shortages. The army’s fuel reserves were supplemented to make the power plants operational again. Lebanese think that the power outage in the country is due to widespread corruption in the sector, and they attribute this corruption to the failure of politicians. The power outage directly affects the Lebanese economy. It causes disruptions in key sectors such as industry, agriculture, health.
It is expected that an Iraqi tanker carrying 36 thousand tons of fuel for the 2 power plants, where electricity production was stopped on October 20, will arrive in Lebanon.