(27 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon – 27 May 2024
1. Policemen clashing with pro-Palestinian students at a demonstration in front of Egyptian embassy
2. Various of police taking men away to arrest them
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bassem Al-Jouni, student protester:
"We were protesting and didn’t commit any assault, but they attacked us. These are the tools utilised by the normalising regimes, the oppressive and reactionary regimes to arrest those acting in solidarity with Gaza. We want to send a message: neither oppression, nor beating, nor imprisonment, nor killing will stop us. There are young people putting their lives on the line and fighting. We are with them to the death, and we sacrifice ours for Palestine."
4. Policemen and pro-Palestine protesters scuffling
5. Riot police standing outside the Egyptian embassy
6. Various of protesters applauding, chanting
7. Close of Palestinian flag
8. Egyptian flag at embassy
9. Exterior of Egyptian embassy
STORYLINE:
Clashes erupted on Monday between pro-Palestinian university students and riot police outside the Egyptian embassy in Beirut.
Dozens of university students gathered outside the embassy, holding Palestinian flags and calling on the Egyptian government to open the Rafah border crossing and allow humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip.
Rafah, the southernmost Gaza city, is on the border with Egypt.
Egypt refuses to reopen its side of the Rafah crossing until control of the Gaza side is handed back to the Palestinians.
It agreed to temporarily divert traffic through Kerem Shalom, Gaza’s main cargo terminal, after a call between U.S. President Joe Biden and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi.
Protests by students and other groups denouncing the Israel-Hamas war have been recurrent In Lebanon since the fighting started in October.
This the second time in under a week that students in Beirut marched to the Egyptian Embassy, criticising Egypt for not doing enough for the Palestinians in Gaza.
Gaza’s humanitarian crisis has spiraled as the U.N. and other aid agencies say the entry of food and other supplies to them has plunged dramatically since Israel’s Rafah offensive began more than two weeks ago.
Hamas triggered the war in Gaza with its October 7 attack into Israel, in which Palestinian militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and seized some 250 hostages.
Hamas still holds about 100 hostages and the remains of around 30 others after most of the rest were released during a cease-fire last year.
The Palestinian death toll in the war is now above 36,000, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between fighters and noncombatants in its tally.
Around 80% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have fled their homes, severe hunger is widespread and U.N. officials say parts of the territory are experiencing famine.
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