Protesters Outside US Embassy in Lebanon Reject Trump's Plan

Arab World

February 2nd, 12:05pm

Asharq Al-Awsat

A Palestinian women chant slogans during a protest against the so-called 'Deal of the Century', announced by Trump to solve the conflict between Palestinians and Israel, in Bourj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, 29 January 2020. EPA/WAEL HAMZEH

Hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinians protested Sunday near the US Embassy in Lebanon against a US President Donald Trump's plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinian flags were waved amid tight security by Lebanese security forces and riot policemen. Around noon the protesters removed the barbed wire and reached a metal fence set up by security forces. Police used what appeared to be pepper spray to hold back some of the demonstrators, with at least three protesters being carried away. On Saturday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas threatened to cut security ties with both Israel and the US in a speech he delivered at an Arab League meeting in response to the US plan. Trump's deal would grant the Palestinians limited self-rule in parts of the occupied West Bank, while allowing Israel to annex all its settlements there and keep nearly all of east Jerusalem, which Palestinians claim as the capital of a future Palestinian state. Lebanon is home to tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees and their descendants, the Associated Press reported.

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