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| Lebanese security forces have fired tear gas and water canons at protesters near the US Embassy in Beirut during a demonstration against Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. | |
| 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 embassy in the Awkar area in the capital's north. | |
| Some demonstrators burned an effigy of the US President, as well as American and Israeli flags and piles of garbage, sending plumes of smoke into the air. As they hurled stones, security forces responded with tear gas and water cannons, TV footage showed. | |
| Lebanon is home to 450,000 Palestinian refugees, amounting to nearly 10 per cent of the population. | |
| The White House announcement on Jerusalem this week has ignited protests across the Middle East, where it is widely seen as a blatantly pro-Israel move that threatens the decades-old peace process. | |
| Washington had long held that the city's status must be decided in negotiations with the Palestinians, who want East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state. | |
| The protests in Lebanon came following three days of demonstrations in Gaza, the West Bank and east Jerusalem. | |
| Four Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air strikes after rockets were fired across the border from Gaza. | |
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