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Lebanese men look towards the sea near the Arida Border Crossing with Syria, on September 23, 2022, as relatives wait for the arrival of the bodies of those drowned when a boat they boarded sank off Syria's coast. At least 77 migrants drowned when a boat they boarded in Lebanon sank off Syria's coast, Syria's health minister said Friday, in one of the deadliest such shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean. Lebanon, which since 2019 has been mired in a financial crisis branded by the World Bank as one of the worst in modern times, has become a launchpad for illegal migration, with its own citizens joining Syrian and Palestinian refugees clamouring to leave their homeland. Around 150 people, mostly Lebanese and Syrians, were on board the small boat that went down Thursday off the Syrian city of Tartus. (Photo by Fathi Al-Masri/AFP Photo)
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