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Lebanon: Tripoli Is Boiling

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Lebanon, Politics, Protest

Mustapha says that various eyewitnesses informed him that tens of thousands of protesters have filled the parking lot of the Tripoli International Fair (an area of around 20,000 square meters) in a show of support for the government. The witnesses described a huge forest of Lebanese flags and loud displays of fireworks and festive gun shots [1].