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Dozens of people protested violence against women outside the Lebanese Parliament in Beirut. The demonstration, titled “8 is not just a number,” aimed to denounce inaction by the authorities after at least eight women have been killed since early December.

The protest was organized by civil society groups, including the rights association KAFA (Enough Violence and Exploitation), which wants legislative reforms to protect women from domestic violence.

Red wooden cutout silhouettes representing victims, including the eight, were set up in the square outside Parliament.

A group of contract school teachers held a protest outside the Education Ministry, demanding that they be given long-term contracts and be formally employed by their places of work.

Local media reported that a delegation of the protesters met with Education Minister Marwan Hamadeh, while those remaining outside, in Beirut’s Unesco area, blocked a nearby road as part of the demonstration.

One protester told reporters at the scene that the call to be installed as permanent workers should not be seen as a request for charity from the teachers.

The controversial decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to unilaterally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has continued to spark protests in south Lebanon.

Students at Amjad University showed their support to the Palestinian cause in a demonstration next to the statue of the scientist Hassan Kamel al-Sabah in northern Nabatieh.

Away from the burning of tires, American flags and U.S. President Donald Trump's pictures, hundreds of artists expressed their solidarity with Jerusalem in their own way. In the courtyard of the municipality of Sidon, Lebanese and Palestinian artists performed national songs and poems at an event organized by the General Union of Palestinian Artists in Lebanon.