Location on the Lebanese territory

علمت "النشرة" ان اطلاق نار كثيف يسجل في شارع ابو الفوز في ​مخيم البداوي​ احتجاجا على توقيف اثنين منذ قليل من قبل ​شعبة المعلومات

 Employees in public institutions not covered in the recently passed salary scale law protested their exclusion.

A salary hike for public sector employees was approved by the government in July last year, though it has yet to be fully implemented, even for those institutions it targeted.

The demonstrators gathered in Riad al-Solh to call on the government for fairness and equality across public sector institutions.

Hundreds of protesters have rallied in the Lebanese capital demanding that Islamist prisoners be part of a discussed general amnesty.

The rally in central Beirut was attended by hundreds of families of Islamist prisoners. They were pressing the government to include their relatives in a general amnesty expected to come ahead of the country's first election in ten years.

The elections are scheduled for May. Lebanon had one general amnesty after the end of the civil war in 1990.

Employees at the state-run internet company Ogero in Sidon are holding a strike to protest delays in implementing the new salary scale, local TV station LBCI reported.

The protest, held at the invitation of the Executive Council of the Labor Union, began when employees blocked the doors to the Ogero building in Sidon. They called on the Board of Directors at Ogero to pay their employees according to the salary scale law passed in 2017.