Protests in Lebanon Near U.S. Embassy After Trump’s Jerusalem Decision
that declares on this day the highest degree of solidarity with the Palestinian people and its right
10, 2017
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanese security forces on Sunday fired tear gas and water cannons into crowds
that had gathered near the United States Embassy to protest President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
In a statement, the Prosperous Justice Party described Mr. Trump’s decision as "a form of humiliation and provocation against Muslims all over the world." Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, has said
that Mr. Trump’s move was a violation of United Nations resolutions.
Thousands of protesters chanted slogans against Mr. Trump’s orders, which involving moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, with some throwing rocks
and setting tires and a large trash container on fire outside the embassy’s highly secured gated compound in a suburb north of the capital, Beirut.
Mr. Trump’s decision, which dealt a blow to the idea of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem
as its capital, has been widely condemned across the Arab world and beyond.
Many waved Palestinian flags and the flags of Lebanese parties, including those of Arab nationalists
and Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia and political party formed to fight Israel.
In the capital, protesters wearing traditional white Islamic robes carried Indonesian
and Palestinian flags, along with banners reading, "Free Jerusalem and Palestinians," "We are with the Palestinians" and "U.S.
