Beirut-Sana
Beirut and Lebanese regions witnessed new sit-ins and protests tonight, denouncing the conditions and living conditions focused on banks and their centers.
The Lebanese National Media Agency reported that the protesters protested in front of the Banque du Liban in downtown Beirut, and then roamed the internal streets of Hamra and headed in front of the Banque du Liban and Diaspora administration building amid the widespread deployment of the Lebanese security forces that prevented the protesters from entering the main Hamra Street for fear of sabotage.
In Zahle, a number of protesters broke down the facades of the Byblos Bank and the Banque Libano-Française in Bar Elias, as well as destroying cameras and ATMs, and a Lebanese army force came to the scene.
In Minya, in Akkar, in northern Lebanon, protesters cut the Minya / Abda International Highway at the Minya municipality building in both directions towards Akkar and towards Tripoli in protest at living conditions, high prices, and a high dollar exchange rate.
In Saida, dozens of demonstrators protested in front of the Banque du Liban in the city and threw firecrackers and stones towards the building amid tight security measures, as security forces put a thorny fence to prevent approaching it in a situation of anger and boiling, the fourth vigil days ago.
In Saida, protesters threw a Molotov cocktails at the Bank of Lebanon and the Diaspora, and they also threw explosives at the Banque du Liban in Saida.
In Tripoli, protest actions continued tonight with violence and violence in Abdel Hamid Karami Square, and the protesters chanted slogans calling for improving the living conditions and fighting corruption.
In turn, the Lebanese army threw several smoke bombs to remove the stone-throwing demonstrators, Miqati Palace, in the port of Tripoli.
The protests that took place yesterday night and this morning in Tripoli and some Lebanese regions resulted in the injury of 54 soldiers, in addition to burning and destroying a number of banks, as the Lebanese Army Command announced in a statement today.
