Lawe mai ʻo Iulai i hoʻokahi miliona mau mākaʻikaʻi i Lebanona

BEIRUT - ʻOi aku ma mua o hoʻokahi miliona mau mākaʻikaʻi i kipa aku iā Lebanona i ka mahina o Iulai, kahi helu moʻolelo no ka ʻāina liʻiliʻi Mediterranean, ua ʻōlelo ka ʻoihana mākaʻikaʻi i ka Pōʻalua.

"He mea nui loa - ʻaʻole mākou i ʻike i kēia ma mua," i ʻōlelo ʻia e ka luna Kuhina Nada Sardouk iā AFP.

I ka hopena o ka mahina, ua hoʻopaʻa ʻia nā mea mākaʻikaʻi 1,007,352, ua ʻōlelo ʻo ia, ʻoi aku ma mua o 325,000 Lebanese expatriates a me nā Suria he nui.

Ua kipa pū aku ka poʻe Saudi Arabia a me nā mea mākaʻikaʻi mai nā mokuʻāina ʻē aʻe o Arab, a ʻo ka mālama ʻana no ka mahina hemolele o Ramadan, e hoʻomaka ana ma kahi o ʻAukake 22, "ikaika loa," i hoʻohui ʻia ai ʻo Sardouk.

Nui nā poʻe ʻEulopa e kipa aku nei i kēia kauwela, me kahi kokoke i 79,000 hiki mai i Iulai mai Belgium, Farani, Kelemānia, Italia, Netherlands a me United Kingdom, wahi āna.

Ua ʻōlelo ka ʻoihana ua manaʻo ʻo Lebanona e hoʻokipa i ʻelua miliona mau mākaʻikaʻi ma ka hopena o 2009, kahi helu like me ka hapalua o ka heluna o ka ʻāina.

Ua lanakila ka mākaʻikaʻi ma Lebanona i nā makahiki i hala iho nei ma hope o ka pepehi kanaka politika ma hope o ka pōʻino Beirut i pepehi i ke kuhina mua ʻo Rafiq Hariri i Pepeluali 2005.

I ka makahiki 2006, ua kaua ʻo Israel a me Lebanona Shiite militia Hezbollah i ke kaua hōʻino i ke kauwela, a i ka makahiki aʻe, ua hakakā ka pūʻali koa me nā Islamists i hoʻokumu ʻia e Al-Qaeda i kahi hoʻomoana puʻuhonua Palestinian.

Eia naʻe, ua hoʻihoʻi hou ka mākaʻikaʻi i ka makahiki 2008 me ka hōʻea ʻana mai o 1.3 miliona mau malihini kipa ma ka ʻāina i kapa ʻia ʻo "Switzerland of the Middle East."