Caretaker Information Minister, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, said via Twitter today: “It is the International Day for Humanitarian Action, and how scarce humanity has become in a time of oppression, injustice, narrow interests and selfishness…”

Abdel Samad added: “The Beirut Humanitarian Award, launched by the Ministry of Information, for the best media work, is a moral step to translate the meanings of humanity so that it may be rooted in the conscience before being in the souls and contents.”