BEIRUT (AFP) – Lebanese security forces fired tear gas and water cannons at dozens of angry demonstrators who protested near the US embassy Sunday against Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip.
The incident occurred when Lebanese and Palestinian leftists of various political groups broke through barbed wire down the street from the embassy and neared the next barricade to the mission compound in Awkar, just north of Beirut.
Several of the demonstrators were seen to be hurt in the clashes.
The tear gas forced the crowd to disperse although some demonstrators regrouped and continued to protest, calling on the US ambassador to be expelled from the country.
Another protest, by dozens of members of the leftist Democratic People's Party, was staged near the US embassy later in the day.
Protestors burned dummies of US President George W. Bush, US President-elect Barack Obama and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as well as American and Israeli flags.
Before leaving, they placed dolls representing babies killed in Israel's war on Gaza on the barbed wire barricade.
The protests comes amid sporadic fire after Israel began a unilateral truce early on Sunday morning in its 22-day-long war on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip that killed at least 1,300 Palestinians.
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