December 10, 2017 03:26 pm | Updated 03:34 pm IST - BEIRUT:
Protesters chant slogans as they hold Palestinian flags during a demonstration in front of the U.S. embassy in Aukar, east of Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday. A few hundred demonstrators, including Palestinians, pelted security outside the embassy with stones and burned an effigy of U.S. President Donald Trump in a protest to reject Washington’s recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel.
Lebanese security forces fired tear gas and water canons at protesters near the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon on Sunday during a demonstration against President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, TV footage showed.
Protesters, some of them waving the Palestinian flag, set fires in the street and threw projectiles towards the security forces who had barricaded the main road leading to the U.S. Embassy in the Awkar area north of Beirut in the Awkar area.
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