Thousands of people demonstrated in Beirut on Thursday against the Lebanese gove...
BEIRUT - Thousands of people demonstrated in Beirut on Thursday against the Lebanese government’s management of an economic crisis in one of the biggest protests in years, leading the Cabinet to pull a proposed new levy on WhatsApp calls.
“I was sitting at home and I saw the people on the move and so I came out,” said Cezar Shaaya, an accountant protesting in Beirut. “I am married, I have mortgage payments due every month and I am not working. It’s the state’s fault.” A protester burning tires in the village of Tel Nhas in southern Lebanon said: “We are asking for jobs, for our rights, electricity, water, we are demanding education”.
Hundreds of people were still gathered in central Beirut’s Riad al-Solh square into the early hours of Friday, some of them waving Lebanese flags. Nearby, dozens of young men on motorcycles were circling the road and set tires on fire.
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