Lebanon

Jabal (Mountain) Mohsen, stronghold of Alawite Muslims. Destruction and poverty are consequences of recurring fightings with Sunnis of Tebenneh. Tripoli, Lebanon 2014
Jabal (Mountain) Mohsen, stronghold of Alawite Muslims. Destruction and poverty are consequences of recurring fightings with Sunnis of Tebenneh. Tripoli, Lebanon 2014
Jabal (Mountain) Mohsen, stronghold of Alawite Muslims. Destruction and poverty are consequences of recurring fightings with Sunnis of Tebenneh. Tripoli, Lebanon 2014
Jabal (Mountain) Mohsen, stronghold of Alawite Muslims. Here a building collapsed for the fightings last year. The frontline between Tebenneh and Jabal Mohsen is between the building on the right, ant the ones on the centre and left. Destruction and poverty are consequences of recurring fightings with Sunnis of Tebenneh. Tripoli, Lebanon 2014
Jabal (Mountain) Mohsen, stronghold of Alawite Muslims. Destruction and poverty are consequences of recurring fightings with Sunnis of Tebenneh. Tripoli, Lebanon 2014
Jabal (Mountain) Mohsen, stronghold of Alawite Muslims. Destruction and poverty are consequences of recurring fightings with Sunnis of Tebenneh. Tripoli, Lebanon 2014
Jabal (Mountain) Mohsen, stronghold of Alawite Muslims. Destruction and poverty are consequences of recurring fightings with Sunnis of Tebenneh. Tripoli, Lebanon 2014
Jabal (Mountain) Mohsen, stronghold of Alawite Muslims. Destruction and poverty are consequences of recurring fightings with Sunnis of Tebenneh. Tripoli, Lebanon 2014
Jabal (Mountain) Mohsen, stronghold of Alawite Muslims. Destruction and poverty are consequences of recurring fightings with Sunnis of Tebenneh. Tripoli, Lebanon 2014
Tebenneh, stronghold of Sunni Muslims. The black flag belongs to ISIS. Destruction and poverty are consequences of recurring fightings with Alawites of Jabal Mohsen or with the Libanese army. Tripoli, Lebanon, 2014
Tebenneh, stronghold of Sunni Muslims. Destruction and poverty are consequences of recurring fightings with Alawites of Jabal Mohsen or with the Libanese army. Tripoli, Lebanon, 2014
Nazira, who doesn't know her age. She lives with two sisters, one of whom has been severely injured during the fightings. Jabal (Mountain) Mohsen, stronghold of Alawite Muslims. Destruction and poverty are consequences of recurring fightings with Sunnis of Tebenneh. Tripoli, Lebanon 2014
Badiah, who doesn't know her age. The walls in her house are full of holes of bullets, but luckily nobody was injured. Jabal (Mountain) Mohsen, stronghold of Alawite Muslims. Tripoli, Lebanon 2014
Children playing in Tebenneh, stronghold of Sunni Muslims. Destruction and poverty are consequences of recurring fightings with Alawites of Jabal Mohsen or with the Libanese army. Tripoli, Lebanon, 2014
Children playing in Tebenneh, stronghold of Sunni Muslims. Destruction and poverty are consequences of recurring fightings with Alawites of Jabal Mohsen or with the Libanese army. Tripoli, Lebanon, 2014
Children playing in Jabal (Mountain) Mohsen, stronghold of Alawite Muslims. Destruction and poverty are consequences of recurring fightings with Sunnis of Tebenneh. Tripoli, Lebanon 2014
A barbershop at Tebenneh, stronghold of Sunni Muslims. Destruction and poverty are consequences of recurring fightings with Alawites of Jabal Mohsen or with the Libanese army.Tripoli, Lebanon, 2014
Abu Mohammad, son-in-law, and Sheikha Fatima Abdel Razzak, mother, beneficiaries of the ICRC's kitchen project. Tebenneh, Sunni neighbourhood of Tripoli. Lebanon, 2014
Najat Fadel, one of the poor beneficiaries of the ICRC's kitchen project of Jabal (Mountain) Mohsen. Jabal Mohsen is the Alawite neighborhood of Tripoli. Lebanon, 2014
A mixed family: the husband is Sunni and the wife Alawite. Taleb Domar Dib, the husband, and Dahiya Handé Khoder, his mother-in-law, beneficiaries of the ICRC's kitchen project. Jabal (Mountain) Mohsen, stronghold of Alawite Muslims. Tripoli, Lebanon, 2014
A mixed family: the husband is Sunni and the wife Alawite. Dahiya Handé Khoder, mother of Jouhaina Khaled Khaled, beneficiary of the ICRC's kitchen project. Jabal (Mountain) Mohsen, stronghold of Alawite Muslims. Tripoli, Lebanon, 2014
On a frontline between Tebenneh (left), stronghold of Sunni Muslims, and Jabal (Mountain) Mohsen (right), stronghold of Alawite Muslims. ICRC's cash for work project: men are cleaning the area, while others will fix its sewage. Tripoli, Lebanon, 2014
Cooks preparing lunch for the most vulnerable. The ICRC's kitchen project in Tebenneh produces 280 meals every day. Tripoli, Lebanon, 2014
Cooks preparing lunch for the most vulnerable. The ICRC's kitchen project in Tebenneh produces 280 meals every day. Tripoli, Lebanon, 2014
Doha Mahfouz, cook preparing lunch for the most vulnerable. The ICRC's kitchen project in Jabal (Mountain) Mohsen produces 100 meals every day. Tripoli, Lebanon, 2014
Cooks preparing lunch for the most vulnerable. The ICRC's kitchen project in Tebenneh produces 280 meals every day. Tripoli, Lebanon, 2014

The Bab al-Tabbaneh – Jabal Mohsen conflict is a recurring conflict between Sunni Muslim residents of the Bab-al-Tebbaneh and Alawite Muslim residents of the Jabal Mohsen neighbourhoods of Tripoli, Lebanon. Residents of the two neighbourhoods have been rivals since the Lebanese Civil War, and have often engaged in violence. Moreover, the Syrian conflict spilled over into Lebanon, thus further exacerbating tensions. Now Bab al-Tabbaneh is the headquarter of ISIS, and Jabal Mohsen of the Lebanese pro-Assad army. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has launched several projects to help the most vulnerable members of both communities to rebuild their lives.

The ICRC has embarked, in cooperation with the Lebanese Red Cross (LRC) and two local NGOs, on a project enabling women and men to earn a living by supplying meals to the most vulnerable families in both areas. A team of 40 women are cooking hot meals that are delivered every day to the homes of 110 vulnerable households, or over 500 people.

To ensure that the garbage littering the streets is collected and properly disposed of, the ICRC and the LRC, in cooperation with the municipal authorities of Tripoli, have so far enrolled 113 men in a cash-for-work scheme. These men are also cleaning streets and repainting walls.