Lebanon is also reeling from a political crisis. Thousands have been taking to the streets for over three months to demand a productive economy, an end to corruption and the ouster of sectarian leaders who have ruled the country since its civil war ended in 1990.

Those protesters brought down the government of former prime minister Saad Hariri on October 29.

The crisis has meanwhile hit hard the migrants.

“My factory was shut in October. Now I am living with some Syrian refugees and finding work hardly three or four days a month. That’s how I’m surviving,” said Rana Ahmed, who went to Lebanon in August 2016.

Forty-year-old Rana, who used to work as a machine operator at a factory in Nahar Ibrahim area, some 47 kilometers north of the Lebanese capital Beirut, said he became an undocumented worker last year.

On February 2, he paid the Lebanese authorities some $300 in fines for staying illegally in the country for nearly a year.