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Students marched from Horsh Beirut to Martyrs’ Square Friday morning to protest the government’s failure to address environmental degradation. The Lebanon chapters of activist groups Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion organized the demonstration in solidarity with a global movement of student walkouts intended to call attention to climate change. About 50 people attended the strike in Beirut Friday, joining an estimated 1 million protesters in over 150 countries. Protesters stated that this protest will be repeated on Fridays. 

A number of detainees that had been released from Khiam detention center and the Israeli prisons are staging a sit-in outside the military court in Beirut, in concurrence with the interrogation session of Israeli collaborator, Amer Elias Fakhouri.

A group of disabled persons and their families in the North have cut off the road leading to the Municipality of al-Mina - Maritime Highway, and set up a tent in the middle of the road, with the participation of a delegation from the Labor Union in the North, including former MP Mesbah al-Ahdab, to protest the removal of their kiosks along the Corniche and the Municipality’s failure to fulfill its promises to hire them.

Technicians at Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport protested Friday morning to demand delayed payments for night and overtime work. Director-General of Civil Aviation Mohammad Chehabeddine said the protest, which lasted an hour, did not affect any flights. Chehabeddine said the workers had not received overtime pay for five months. He said the delay was due to a decision by the Finance Ministry that public employees be paid only their regular wages and transportation fees until the draft 2019 state budget is passed.