State news agency NNA reported three deaths during the clashes in the Lebanese capital. An Emergency Room doctor at Beirut’s al-Sahel hospital who did not want to be named earlier told CNN that the hospital has received one fatality and nine injuries since the violence erupted.
Hundreds of supporters of Iran-backed Hezbollah and its main Shia ally, Amal, were marching towards the city’s Palace of Justice on Thursday when shots were fired at the protesters from an unknown location, forcing demonstrators and journalists to take cover, according to an army statement and local broadcasters.
There are multiple local reports of snipers shooting at demonstrators from the rooftops of buildings in the area. Local TV and social media videos also showed a masked protesters firing what appeared to be AK-47s from behind street barriers and garbage dumps, apparently shooting back at the gunmen,…
