The Lebanese National News Agency reported that a demonstration was launched at night in the direction of the US Embassy junction in Lebanon in the Awkar area, “to protest the Israeli attack on the Baptist Hospital in Gaza.”
The agency pointed out that the Lebanese security forces and the army took strict security measures in the vicinity of the embassy, and also cut off all roads leading to it with barbed wire.
Al-Hurra website’s correspondent in Beirut reported that security forces used water cannons and smoke bombs to disperse the demonstrators in front of the American embassy in Awkar.
The Lebanese security forces set up a large iron barrier blocking the road leading towards the embassy, while a number of protesters tried to remove the barbed wire, cut it, and throw stones at it.
Social media sites in Lebanon circulated videos showing dozens of motorcycles in car parades, and it was said that they were heading to the vicinity of the American embassy in Lebanon to participate in the protest.
Part of the demonstration near the US Embassy, according to this tweet.
The vicinity of the French embassy in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, is witnessing an angry protest movement by dozens of angry young men, including skirmishes and shoving with members of the Lebanese army who are deployed in front of the entrance to the embassy to prevent the protesters from entering.
The vicinity of the building of the United Nations ESCWA (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia), in central Beirut, witnessed a gathering of a number of angry young men, who set fires in front of the building, and proceeded to destroy and remove the barriers erected at its entrance.
Social networking sites circulated calls for gatherings in several places in the capital, Beirut, and other cities such as Tripoli, Sidon, Nabatieh, and Tire, which witnessed vigils and marches denouncing the bombing of the Baptist Hospital.
Lebanese parties and Palestinian factions in Lebanon called for participation in a demonstration of anger in front of the American embassy in Awkar, tomorrow afternoon, Wednesday, to denounce the massacre that took place at Baptist Hospital in Gaza.
The Lebanese authorities declared tomorrow, Wednesday, a national day of mourning for the lives of those who fell in the hospital bombing, and the Lebanese Minister of Education, Abbas Al-Halabi, announced the closure of all schools, high schools and universities in the country.
This comes in parallel with similar protests taking place in several Arab countries, including Jordan, Tunisia, and Egypt, in addition to the Palestinian territories.
The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced on Tuesday that at least 500 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on the National Arab Hospital in the Strip, according to what was reported by Reuters.
The Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) indicated that hundreds were killed and wounded in the bombing of Al-Ahly Al-Arabi Hospital (Al-Maamdani) in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
The Palestinian Agency reported that aircraft launched a raid on the hospital while thousands of displaced citizens were present who took refuge there after their homes were destroyed and were searching for a safe place.
For its part, the Israeli army denied responsibility for an attack on a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday, saying that military intelligence information indicated that the hospital “was subjected to a failed missile attack launched by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement in the Strip.”
An Israeli army spokesman said in a statement, “The intelligence information we obtained from multiple sources indicates that the Islamic Jihad movement is responsible for launching the failed missile that hit the hospital in Gaza.”
But a spokesman for Islamic Jihad denied Israel’s account of the movement’s responsibility for the Gaza hospital strike.
2023-10-17 21:25:20
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