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Second day of protests over Bassil slur

Protests and demonstrations erupted for a second day in both Beirut and some areas of south Lebanon as a result of a leaked recoding showing Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil calling Speaker Nabih Berri a “thug” in a recent electoral meeting. Although protests were not on the same scale as those Monday, Berri’s supporters took to the streets of the capital in the evening with no obvious end in sight to the tension.

The leaked video was not well received by officials and members of the Amal Movement, headed by Berri, and has soured relations between the speaker and Bassil.

Pro-Berri protests spread across Beirut

Supporters of Speaker Nabih Berri took to the streets, blocking roads close to Free Patriotic Movement offices in reaction to a leaked video of Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil calling the speaker a "thug." Assault rifles were fired into the air near FPM offices in Mirna Chalouhli as protesters blocked streets. It wasn't immediately clear who initiated the gunfire with both the Amal Movement and the FPM each blaming the other. Lebanese Army units and Internal Security Forces deployed near the center to prevent Berri's supporters reaching the building.

People cut the eastern route of Tripoli highway

أفادت "​غرفة التحكم المروري​" التابعة لقوى الأمن الداخلي، بـ"قطع أوتوستراد ​طرابلس​ المسلك الشرقي محلة البداوي من قبل بعض الأهالي، وتحويل السير إلى المسلك الغربي". وكانت قد أفادت مراسلة "النشرة" في الشمال بأنّ "مخابرات الجيش أوقفت مسؤول حزب التحرير في المنكوبين بطرابلس الشيخ محمد ابراهيم

Israeli forces threw sonic bombs at protesters

Israeli soldiers on Friday afternoon threw two sonic bombs at a number of youths who assembled at the Fatima cement wall on the Lebanese-Palestinian borders in the town of Kferkela, to participate in a demonstration in support of Jerusalem, NNA field reporter said.


The demonstration was called forth by Hezbollah in support and victory of Jerusalem.

SSNP partisans demonstrated in front of Justice Palace

Partisans of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) are currently demonstrating in the vicinity of the Palace of Justice, chanting slogans in support of Habib Chertouni.
In the meantime, slogans in support of martyre President Bashir Gemayel are being heard inside the Palace of Justice, NNA reporter said.

Lebanese Promise Party protest calls for Syrians to leave Lebanon

The Lebanese Promise Party held a protest in Mazraat Yeshou, on October 14, calling for the Lebanese government to send Syrian nationals back to their country.   Around 100 protestors gathered wearing identical t-shirts emblazoned with the party’s logo and holding flags and signs that read, “So that we don’t lose Lebanon, negotiate with the Syrian government," referring to current debates between political parties on whether to coordinate with the Syrian regime on the return of refugees.

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