Beirut-Sana
Protest demonstrations were renewed this evening in the city of Tripoli, northern Lebanon, while the Lebanese Army members expelled the protesters from the Saraya building and Abdel Hamid Karami Square.
The Lebanese National News Agency reported that a number of protesters threw stones at the security forces, while the security forces worked to disperse and deport them, while members of the army carried out a security deployment in the vicinity of Abdul Hamid Karami Square and the Banque du Liban branch at the northern entrance to the city.
The Traffic Control Room had announced that traffic was cut off in the aforementioned square in both directions, but the army reopened the roads around the Saraya perimeter.
The clashes in the city of Tripoli yesterday resulted in the injury of more than a hundred people, in addition to members of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces, as a result of protesters throwing firebombs at the municipality of Tripoli and the Serail, which led to the burning of the Sharia court in the city and the burning of its municipality.
In the capital, Beirut, demonstrators gathered in front of the headquarters of the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities on Hamra Street, to protest the living conditions in light of the general closure due to the Corona virus, and chanted slogans denouncing the financial and economic policies.
In Sidon, southern Lebanon, a demonstration set off from Elia Square towards the city’s municipality to demand support for poor families in light of tightening closure restrictions.
The protests renewed in a number of Lebanese regions during the past days, against the background of the living and economic conditions during the general closure period, and there were riots, encroachment on public and private properties, and exposure to security forces.