Thanks to political pressures, no one has been held responsible to date for the catastrophic 2020 port explosion in Lebanon’s capital. The new government wants to change that. But a treacherous political path lies ahead.

Hundreds of Lebanese gathered solemnly near Beirut's coast on Monday to commemorate a half-decade since the cataclysmic port blast of 2020, when more than 200 people were killed in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history.