{"id":12116,"date":"2019-11-25T10:34:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T05:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=12116"},"modified":"2019-11-25T10:34:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T05:34:28","slug":"hezbollah-supporters-attack-lebanon-anti-govt-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/12116","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah Supporters Attack Lebanon Anti-Govt Protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supporters of the Hezbollah and Amal movements attacked Lebanese anti-government protesters in Beirut on Monday, with army reinforcements intervening to diffuse tensions.<\/p>\n

Shortly before midnight on Sunday, men on foot and scooters arrived at a roadblock set up by anti-graft protesters across a key street in the capital, local television showed.<\/p>\n

They shouted insults and chanted in support of the chiefs of the Shi’ite movements Hezbollah and Amal, before briefly breaking through and attacking some demonstrators.<\/p>\n

Those at the roadblock chanted “peaceful, peaceful”, as the security forces and army reinforcements deployed in a thick line between both sides in the early hours of Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Groups of young men threw stones at each other for hours, with security forces in the middle.<\/p>\n

Several people were beaten and injured. A few Hezbollah supporters held up the Muslim Shia group\u2019s large yellow flag, waving it and taunting the protesters on the other side.<\/p>\n

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Anti-government protesters comfort their friend who fell from the tear gas, during a clash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The confrontations were some of the worst since protests erupted in Lebanon in the middle of last month.<\/div>\n
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Lebanon has faced five weeks of anti-government protests, fuelled by anger at corruption among the sectarian politicians who have governed the country for decades. Demonstrators want all of them gone from power.<\/p>\n

Iran-backed Hezbollah and Amal were both represented in the coalition government led by Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who resigned on October 29 after the protests began.<\/p>\n

The heavily-armed Hezbollah had opposed Hariri’s resignation.<\/p>\n

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Supporters of the Hezbollah and Amal movements attacked Lebanese anti-government protesters in Beirut on Monday, with army reinforcements intervening to diffuse tensions. Shortly before midnight on Sunday, men on foot and scooters arrived at a roadblock set up by anti-graft protesters across a key street in the capital, local television showed. They shouted insults and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12119,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12116\/revisions\/12119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}