Beirut-Sana
Protests renewed today in the Lebanese city of Tripoli, calling for an improvement in the living situation.
The Lebanese National News Agency reported that a number of people tried to provoke the security forces in charge of protecting the protesters and the Saraya and institutions building in the city, and started throwing stones at the building.
The Lebanese army closed the entrances to Abd al-Hamid Karami Square in the city, coinciding with calls for a sit-in there, while protesters headed to the entrance to the Saraya and set fire to tires in front of the guard room, then went to the back door of the companies and threw stones intensively towards the security forces, who in turn responded by firing tear gas bombs to disperse and drive them away. .
In Beirut tonight, protesters blocked the road at the Ring Bridge that connects to Hamra Street, the City of Peace, while others gathered in the square of the poet Khalil Mutran in Baalbek amid heavy security deployment, and protesters blocked Rayak Baalbek road with burning tires at Tal Amara.
In turn, the General Directorate of the Internal Security Forces issued today a statement about what happened in Tripoli two days ago, in which it said, “The rioters deliberately stormed the Serail of Tripoli using 16 military bombs and about 600 Molotov cocktails and other bombs with the aim of killing the largest number of members, wounding them and burning the brigades. To the Tripoli municipality building and burned it.
More than a hundred people were injured in clashes between protesters and security forces in Tripoli, while the Lebanese army announced the restoration of calm in the city and the arrest of five people in connection with the events.
