The prices of vegetables and fruits this evening witnessed a crazy rise in the local markets, coinciding with the advent of the holy month of Ramadan. Our source witnessed the arrival of the price of hot peppers in some shops in the capital, Tripoli, to 20 dinars per kilo.

The price of a kilo of cucumbers rose to 12 dinars, tomatoes at 8 dinars per kilo, as well as the price of potatoes and onions to 4 dinars per kilo, while the price of eggplant and zucchini reached 6 dinars, a kilo of bananas reached 9 dinars, and the price of mint, dill and coriander rose to one dinar per bundle.