Reports: Nearly 90 Lebanese Fired from their Jobs in Saudi Arabia
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Dozens of Lebanese employees have been fired from their jobs in Saudi Arabia, media reports said on Thursday, amid an unprecedented rift in the Saudi-Lebanese relations.
“Around 90 Lebanese citizens have been informed by their employers in Saudi Arabia that they have been laid off,” MTV reported in the afternoon.
The head of the Lebanese-Saudi Business Development Commission, Elie Rizk, confirmed the news to LBCI television.
“Nearly 90 Lebanese from all affiliations and sects have been sacked,” he said.
Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) also reported that around 90 Lebanese have been fired while noting that no decision has been taken to "deport" the laid off employees.
The development is likely linked to the series of measures that Riyadh has taken in recent days in response to verbal attacks from Hizbullah over the wars in Syria and Yemen as well as recent diplomatic stances by Lebanon's foreign ministry.
The measures started last Friday when the Saudi foreign ministry announced that the kingdom was halting around $4 billion in military aid to the Lebanese army and security forces.
On Tuesday, the kingdom advised its citizens against travel to Lebanon and urged those already in the country to leave it, citing “safety” concerns. The rest of the Arab Gulf countries except for Oman followed suit on Tuesday and Wednesday, issuing similar travel warnings.
Announcing the Saudi aid halt on Friday, an official said the kingdom had noticed "hostile Lebanese positions resulting from the stranglehold of Hizbullah on the state."
Riyadh was making "a comprehensive review of its relations with the Lebanese republic," the unnamed official said, cited by the Saudi Press Agency.
The Saudi official also said that Lebanon had not joined condemnation of the attacks on Riyadh's diplomatic missions in Iran, neither at the Arab League nor at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has repeatedly accused Riyadh of backing terrorist groups in Yemen, Iraq and Syria and a Hizbullah statement has linked the Saudi backlash to economic pressures from the war in Yemen and lower oil revenues.
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M.T.
25 February 2016, 20:16
85
Yes merci beaucoup, Saudi Arabia is such a friendly country to Lebanon right?
Yes according to the corrupted sellouts at the March 14 alliance that is.
25 February 2016, 20:33
65
Hey Saudis, it's up to those Lebanese to decide where they want to go, if they wanted to work in Iran, nobody is stopping them from acquiring visas and go there.
The Syrian government opened their borders to the thousands of Lebanese families in 2006, not the Salafis that traveled from all corners of the earth to claim a caliphate there.
26 February 2016, 14:35
40
Work as what in Iran ya Mystic? Who's gonna pay them how much? Do the Lebanese now have to learn Farsi just to be able to put food on their tables? Do you even care at all about the Lebanese or you're just gloating over the fact that Iran, via Hizb, just tore Lebanon a new one? Do you ever think about the Lebanese? Go back to Iran if you love it so much!
25 February 2016, 19:41
72
Telex-Telex-Telex
Just in, this is only the beginning. Iran will graciously compensate the victims of their expansionist policy.
25 February 2016, 19:48
73
u know what, am lebanese, but well done ksa, well done...all the money they inyect in lebanon is stolen by the politicians, and when it comes to support the kingdom that has done real things for lebanon, the government doesnt pay back, well done...lets see if march 8 and all their dictators will take care of all the laid off people and our booming economy, because they are the proxy of other country´s wars and conflicts and what not...yeah go free palestine.
25 February 2016, 20:08
65
Look at you guys bend to House of Saud and to anyone who throws a few dollars at you. No wonder you live in filth.
25 February 2016, 20:47
25
Your view of the world is so skewed I pity it. Why does everything have to do with Iran vs. Saudi Arabia? Can't they be equally as bad?
This is all a reflection of your subservient mentality. You need to be a slave, whether it's to Saudi or Iran. And you love it, otherwise you wouldn't be here spewing crap like this.
You're what's wrong with Lebanon, and unfortunately you represent a substantial portion of Lebanese. Otherwise Lebanon wouldn't be where it is right now.
25 February 2016, 22:58
55
??? Prove you wrong in what? I just wrote that our ailments are neither caused by Iran nor KSA. It's all the Lebanese's fault. You have trouble with English don't you?
You're our problem. Find a gun, blow your brains out and I can assure you Lebanon would be better off.
26 February 2016, 02:13
35
Hahaha what an idiot, yes the dissociation policy is why you're sitting in filth, why you're economy has been tanking for the past 20 years, and why you have war lords and thieves as leaders. Clearly it's Iran the problem.
I'm an idiot for even bothering to argue with you. What a waste of time. Shoot yourself already.
25 February 2016, 21:28
51
Thanks to the enemy from within destroying everything "inside-out"!!!
25 February 2016, 21:42
50
lets hope they don't ship out all Lebanese from the gulf. But if they do that will be the spark to start the revolution in Lebanon against all The Lebanese corrupt politicians.
25 February 2016, 22:01
35
@1anonymetexasusa
Where in anything that I have ever written do I blame all Lebanon's woes on KSA?
I blame Lebanon's woes on Lebanese and the Lebanese people alone. Again it's people like you who only see enemies in their own compatriots that are to blame.
Thank you for "exposing me as another Takiah Pasdaran" whatever that means. Paranoid idiot.
25 February 2016, 23:33
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It´s because of hizbushaitan that so many of us can´t live in Lebanon and are so far away from the country we love and our families.
25 February 2016, 23:50
51
Very good and excellent. There're news this number will multiply rapidly in the next few days. I'm looking firward to the next logical step, i.e. Withdraw all the funds from trashy lebanese banks.
Hip hip Saudi.
26 February 2016, 06:21
50
it is time to divide Lebanon. Let the Nasrallah and Hezbollah and their top cleric Khamanei have their own country and let us have ours. They can call it whatever they want but we will call ours Lebanon.
26 February 2016, 12:12
55
I don't see the reason for so much excitement?
Luckily the were not chopped chopped by Sharia 101.
17 December 2016, 17:50
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It is rich of you to be a Lebanese and live in a foreign country and complain about the problems in Lebanon.
You do not have the right to complain about Lebanon if you are Lebanese and live outside of Lebanon.
Put your money where your mouth is and come back to your own country!!!
Instead you are working for a foreign country helping to advance their GDP while you let your country to rot.
Bravo.
Grow a pair and come back home, I dare you.
Lebanon is calling!
