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Clashes erupt outside US embassy

Monitoring Desk

BEIRUT: Violent clashes erupted outside the U.S. Embassy in Beirut on Sunday during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to officially recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Demonstrators burnt tyres, the U.S. and Israeli flags as they pushed to break through a barbed wire erected by security forces around the embassy complex, according to an Anadolu Agency reporter.

Security forces fired teargas and water cannon to disperse the angry protesters.

The dramatic shift in Washington’s Jerusalem policy triggered demonstrations in the occupied Palestinian territories and several Mus-lim countries. Jerusalem rem-ains at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict, with Pales-tinians hoping that East Jer-usalem — now occupied by Israel — might eventually ser-ve as the capital of a future Palestinian state.

 

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