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Palestinian students protest UNRWA cuts

Hundreds of uniformed students demonstrated in Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp Thursday to protest against recent U.S. funding cuts to the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees. Children wore traditional keffiyehs and waved Palestinian flags, with some holding blue balloons and posters with slogans supporting UNRWA’s “Dignity is Priceless” fundraising campaign, launched in January to raise $500 million after the United States’ decision to cut aid money to the agency.

Sidon municipal workers strike over wages

Sidon’s municipal employees carried out a one-day warning strike Thursday in demand of the application of the salary scale law, as government employees have been doing for months.

The workers are demanding a raise by three grades, which is granted to all members of public administrations by article 17 of the law, known as Law 46.

The strike reportedly paralyzed the Sidon municipalities’ various departments and was attended by Sidon Mayor Mohammed al-Saudi.

Ogero workers hold wage strike in Sidon

Employees of state-run telecoms giant Ogero held a strike in Sidon Thursday in protest of their wage stagnation, in the latest development in a months-long dispute.

The strike reportedly took place in all of Ogero’s Sidon branches and in other areas of southern Lebanon after workers’ wages remained largely unchanged despite the passage of a salary hike for public sector workers last year.

Teachers across Lebanon stage ‘one-day warning strike

Teachers across Lebanon skipped school to protest recent heavy-handed measures taken against colleagues when they were protesting a lack of government action on wage stagnation and working conditions. The “one-day warning strike” was held to demonstrate against the treatment of teachers who protested Thursday at Baabda Palace, spokesperson for the Association of Secondary School Teachers Nazih al-Jibawi said at news conference at the association’s UNESCO offices.

Civil society speaks up against incinerator plans

A group of members from civil society gathered in Beirut’s Riad al-Solh Square to protest the government’s adoption of plans to use waste incinerators across the country. “We hold the Beirut municipality, its mayor, the deputy mayor and 22 of its members responsible for the decision to use incinerators,” one protester said in a televised broadcast from the demonstration. She added that a lawsuit would be filed if this decision was not revoked by the Beirut municipality.

Lebanon protest Turkey's Syria offensive

Hundreds protested in Lebanon against Turkey's military offensive in Syria's Kurdish enclave of Afrin.

Several demonstrations in support of Syria's Kurds have taken place in the Lebanese capital and across the world since Ankara launched its operation last month.

The demonstrators, some of them refugees and others members of Lebanon's long-established Kurdish community, held their protest near the U.S. embassy on the outskirts of Beirut.

They described feeling abandoned by Washington.

Protests in solidarity with Berri extend to Lebanese University

Employees at the Lebanese University in Hadath staged a protest in solidarity with Speaker Nabih Berri as part of the fourth day of actions in support of the speaker.

“Today we are protesting in a civil manner and will continue to do so because we feel that the nation is in danger with this language we’re hearing today,” Ali Chehade, an Amal supporter, told MTV Lebanon.

Protests were sparked Monday after a video of Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil was leaked in which he called Berri a “thug.”

Berri supporters open fire in Hadath; Bassil supporters bring weapons

Supporters of AMAL Movement chief Speaker Nabih Berri opened gunfire shots into the air late on Wednesday in the Beirut's southern suburbs neighborhood of Hadath in protest to the foreign minister's remarks about Berri which compelled an intervention on the Lebanese army's part, the National News Agency reported.

Berri supporters protest in Beirut, Tyre

Supporters of Speaker Nabih Berri rallied for the third consecutive day across Lebanon, with dozens waving banners and chanting slogans in Beirut and the southern city of Tyre.

The protests broke out on the streets Monday in response to a viral video in which Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil is seen calling Berri a “thug,” during a meet with supporters of his Free Patriotic Movement.

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.

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