In a new low, a fistfight broke out inside a supermarket in Beirut, apparently over the purchase of subsidized powdered milk. “The ruling class must go.”While officially the US dollar costs only 1,520 Lebanese pounds, the black market price was around 9,950 pounds on Thursday — a day after briefly hitting a record high of 10,000. Scores of protesters closed the main Martyrs Square in central Beirut while others blocked the main highway linking the capital with the north and south. Lebanese troops moved in and opened them briefly before protesters closed them again. Lebanon has been hit by one crisis after another, with widespread protests against the country’s corrupt political class starting in October 2019.

Source: Egypt Independent March 05, 2021 08:26 UTC