We came here peacefully, and they do this?” Rasha Habbal, a 21-year-old student who had come to protest with her 57-year-old mother, said of the security forces. “Either they go and we stay, or they stay and we leave,” Ms. Habbal said of the country’s leaders. They hung red banners with a raised fist from the building, which had been damaged in the blast, and proclaimed Beirut a “disarmed” city. “Terrorists, terrorists! Many of Saturday’s protesters said it was anger at what they had lost in the blast that had driven them back into the streets.

Source: New York Times August 08, 2020 15:17 UTC