A/HRC/2/8 page 12 also concerned at the destruction of agro-processing factories and plants. For example, in the Bekaa valley, the Liban Lait dairy farm and processing plant, the leading producer of milk and dairy products in Lebanon, was completely destroyed in an Israeli aerial attack on 17 July 2006. The Special Rapporteur was told that this attack has left unemployment in its wake, with 170 employees unable to return to work, and the surrounding 40 farms that used to provide milk to Liban Lait have now lost their livelihoods as well. Liban Lait produced more than 90 per cent of long-life pasteurized milk in Lebanon. The destruction of Liban Lait has also had wider impacts given that fresh milk provision to local schools by Liban Lait, in collaboration with NGOs and intergovernmental organizations, has now been interrupted and children are deprived of fresh milk.33 In addition, at least 1,500 Bekaa residents have reportedly lost their sources of livelihood. 25. The Ministry of Social and Family Affairs told the Special Rapporteur that currently, more than 70 per cent of the rural population is unemployed. With the destruction of farms and of 124 medium-sized and large factories, many of them agricultural processing factories, many people have been forced out of work. Many workers were already in a precarious situation: rural farm workers earn only US$ 300 per month and there is normally work only 8 months of the year; small farmers who own their own land earn about US$ 500 per month. Now unemployed, there is little to live on as Lebanon has no unemployment benefit or insurance for those forced out of work, although the Ministry has established emergency assistance programmes to provide families with financial and psycho-social support. The Minister of Social and Family Affairs also told the Special Rapporteur that the war had caused profound trauma owing to the impossibility of burying the dead. He noted that 115 corpses, 50 of them children, had been taken to the Tyre hospital morgue at the end of July 2006 but they could not be buried because of continuous Israeli bombardments, violating the Muslim requirement that a body be buried in dignity within a few days of death. The Special Rapporteur was also concerned to find that one of the vulnerable groups of people particularly badly affected were Palestinian refugees living in unregistered camps, or “gatherings”, who do not benefit from the services of UNRWA and do not have the same rights as Lebanese, in terms of inheritance, ownership or work. There are nine “gatherings” in the area of Tyre and nine in the Bekaa area, and the majority of the Palestinian families survive on casual agricultural work, and/or fishing, which have disappeared since the war, making it more difficult to feed their families. The Special Rapporteur visited two of these “gatherings” in the south: Jall al-Bahr and Wasta. A serious concern that has been raised is that the poorest agricultural labourers, including Palestinians, will also be most at risk from UXO as they will be too desperate not to accept work to clear the fields. Fisheries 26. Fishing activities and livelihoods have also been seriously affected by the war. An estimated 8,000 families in the north and south of Lebanon rely on fishing for their livelihoods, including fisherfolk, fish cleaners, market sellers and boat repairers. People were unable to go out fishing due to destruction of boats, insecurity and the naval blockade imposed during the war.34 The ports of Tyre and Ouzai were heavily damaged: more than 400 boats were destroyed, in addition to fishing nets, fish markets, warehouses and related facilities.35 The Special Rapporteur visited the port of Ouzai, which was reportedly hit by 23 attacks and which, at the time of the visit, had still not resumed working as fisherfolk no longer had boats nor the resources to repair them or buy new ones. The fisherfolk he met spoke about the precarious