Kataeb Party leader MP Samy Gemayel on Wednesday condemned the ongoing waste crisis plaguing the Metn district, calling the expanded Jdeideh landfill a “landfill of death.”

In a post on X, Gemayel recalled that the dumping site, imposed on residents ten years ago, has become “a mountain of disease and a source of foul odors,” despite protests and a month-long sit-in that left three people hospitalized.

“Since then, authorities have repeatedly extended, expanded, and raised the landfill,” he wrote. “Each time, they threaten residents with garbage piling up on the streets to justify these extensions and expansions."

Gemayel urged an end to temporary fixes and called on officials to take responsibility by implementing “solutions that are sustainable, healthy, environmentally sound, and decentralized.”

"Enough patchwork and playing with people’s health!" he said.