...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...According to the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA), the center of Beirut witnessed violent confrontations between the Lebanese Army and the demonstrators, who in turn tried to remove iron barriers from the roads leading to the government house.
This prompted the security forces to use force to remove the demonstrators from the security zone in the Riad El Solh area in the center of the Lebanese capital.
A number of protesters also smashed the facade of a number of banks in the Hamra neighborhood of ​​Beirut, and young men blocked the road in Mahalla, near the Central Bank of Lebanon.
In the north, the protesters tried to burn Lebanon ’s central bank branch in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
by throwing Molotov cocktails, which summoned the Lebanese Army to intervene strongly to break up the demonstrations.
Lastly, many roads were closed in southern Lebanon and the international highway leading to Syria in the Beqa’a.