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Protesters Sunday evening blocked the main highway that connects Beirut to Tripoli at Jal al-Dib.

Initially, demonstrators gathered on an internal road in the area before making their way to the highway as the Lebanese Army heavily deployed to the area. The highway had been closed for days before the Army forced protesters to remove their cars and tents on Wednesday.

In Beirut, protesters closed the "Ring Bridge" that connects Hamra to Achrafieh, as well as Sassine Square.

Protesters Sunday evening blocked the main highway that connects Beirut to Tripoli at Jal al-Dib.

Initially, demonstrators gathered on an internal road in the area before making their way to the highway as the Lebanese Army heavily deployed to the area. The highway had been closed for days before the Army forced protesters to remove their cars and tents on Wednesday.

In Beirut, protesters closed the "Ring Bridge" that connects Hamra to Achrafieh, as well as Sassine Square.

Police arrested four protesters who had occupied the entrance of the Association of Banks in Lebanon Friday, and beat and arrested another protester outside moments later.

Using a chain and lock they had brought, three men and one woman locked themselves inside the gate at the entrance of the ABL's headquarters near Beirut's Gemmayzeh district Friday morning. They then “threw away the key.”

 After a day of quasi-normality in Lebanon, protesters returned to the streets Thursday evening, almost immediately after a televised speech delivered by President Michel Aoun, closing roads in the capital and beyond. Life across the country had taken a cautious step toward returning to its regular rhythms, with roads reopening, people going back to work, educational institutions opening their doors and banks resuming internal operations.