Lebanese protesters block a number of roads in protest
Beirut (ST): Protests renewed in a number of Lebanese regions, especially the Beka’a, Tyre and Sidon, against the background of the deteriorating living and economic conditions.
The Lebanese National News Agency stated that protesters blocked a highway in the southern city of Tyre with burning tires, and a number of other protesters closed an intersection in Sidon with waste containers after turning them over in the middle of the road and setting them on fire.
In turn, the Lebanese Traffic Control Room stated that the protesters blocked the coastal Na’ameh road towards the south of Lebanon with burning tyres, as well as the western lane of the coastal Zouk Mosbeh highway linking Beirut and Tripoli and the Taalbaya highway in the Bekaa in both directions, which caused a stifling traffic jam amid security measures by the Lebanese army in the place to try to overcome the situation.
Since the seventeenth of October 2019, many Lebanese regions have witnessed demonstrations and sit-ins protesting the deteriorating living and economic conditions and demanding the fight against corruption in the country.
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