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Lebanese presenter resigns on broadcast: "The country is a cemetery for dreams, I am leaving"

Wissam Urabi, from the public channel, surprised viewers by announcing the end of his work after 11 years following the collapse of the country after the disaster in Beirut. "After explosions, assassinations, wars - I wish everyone who went to find a homeland again, to which we will return not only to be buried. You are tired," he slammed the politicians

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Yifat Rosenberg

A TV presenter in Lebanon resigned live due to the difficult situation in the country, about two weeks after the explosion in the port of Beirut that left the capital destroyed and exacerbated its economic and political crisis. "I am leaving the country because you have melted down," presenter Wissam Urabi, of the public channel, slammed the country's politicians.

"This was the last edition I broadcast to you, after 11 years of being on this screen, at this national station," Urabi surprised viewers at the end of the edition. "11 years in which I covered events, which unfortunately, most of them were sad and all were etched in my memory, like explosions, assassinations, civil wars. Today my career ended here not because the channel gave up on me, but because I can no longer stay in a land that is a dream cemetery. I leave Because I'm disgusted with you. "

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Urabi, one of the best-known presenters in the country, thanked all his supporters, as well as those who did not. "These and these made me stronger," he said. "I wish everyone who went to find a homeland again, to which we will return to live with dignity and not in humiliation, to which we will return not only to be buried."