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Residents of Beirut’s Karantina area staged a protest against plans to build a trash incinerator in the working class neighborhood as part of a government initiative to deal with Lebanon’s waste crisis.

“When you talk about an incinerator, you are saying let the inhabitants find somewhere else to live,” one protestor told local media.

The protest was held near the area’s slaughterhouse, with participants lamenting the lack of attention paid by the government to the area, which during the 2015 garbage crisis was inundated with large piles of trash.

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 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.

A number of people with disabilities held a protest in Beirut to call for greater inclusion in Lebanese society, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The demonstrators staged a sit-in on Corniche al-Nahr to express their right to be fully integrated into society and to denounce the country’s lack of wheelchair-accessible public spaces.

The protesters called on President Michel Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Saad Hariri, asking the country’s political leadership to consider the rights of those living with disabilities.