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@ThomasVLinge

#Lebanon 🇱🇧: protesters return to the streets of #Beirut tonight, tearing down cement blocks around Nijmeh Square,l where the parliament is located

#Lebanon 🇱🇧: protesters are marching through the streets of #Tripoli today.

Anger with the ruling class is growing as the economy has collapsed and the Lebanese Pound is in a free fall.
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#Lebanon 🇱🇧: new wave of outrage at the government after two men killed themselves, their sucides were linked to the country's economic crisis news.yahoo.com/lebanon-suicid…

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Thomas van Linge

@ThomasVLinge

Textbook propaganda from the Lebanese army. A day after shooting and killing an unarmed protester in #Tripoli the military is posting a video of soldiers handing out aid mixed with footage of riots.

In the end the question is asked "Is this how you repay us?"
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https://twitter.com/LebarmyOfficial/status/1255117108729577473

#Lebanon 🇱🇧: riots are taking place all over #Tripoli today following the death of Fawwaz Fouad.

Months of building tensions ate suddenly bursting out in the open.
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#Lebanon 🇱🇧: soldiers in Naameh (south of #Beirut) can be seen throwing stones at protesters from the top of a house.
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Thomas van Linge

@ThomasVLinge

Protesters have returned to the streets of #Lebanon 🇱🇧. Roadblock are being set up in the suburbs of #Beirut as the government's strict #coronavirus measures do not take the daily struggles of the country's poor into considdrations, pushing more people to the brink.
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#Lebanon 🇱🇧: in the southern town of Jadra protesters claim to have been fired upon by security forces, showing bullet casings they reportedly picked off the ground.
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