Location on the Lebanese territory

Employees of Nabih Berri University Hospital held a symbolic sit-in at its entrance, demanding that the adjustment of salaries as granted to a number of government hospitals in Lebanon. They are demanding the  implementation of Law 46 pertaining to the annual adjustment of wages. The head of the Union of Governmental Hospitals staff in the South, Ali El Sayed, declared the possible escalation of the sit-in and the closure of government hospitals in the South if the employees were not granted their rights.

Relatives of a man who has been missing for 24 days blocked the Barbara highway Friday morning to protest the lack of progress in solving his disappearance. At 7 a.m., protesters and relatives of Joseph Hanoush, who disappeared in the Bekaa region 24 days ago, blocked the Barbara highway near Jbeil with burning tire. Metn MP Elias Hankash asked Lebanon’s security forces to follow up on the issue. An hour after the protest, the road was reopened and the Civil Defense team in Jbeil extinguished the burning tires.

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.

Hundreds of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon gathered in Martyr’s Square this morning, the latest in a series of demonstrations asking for asylum. Along with Palestinian flags, protestors waved the colours of the European Union, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. The protest was organized by the Palestinian Youth Organization for Humanitarian Relief in Lebanon and the Youth Movement for Palestinians in Syria.