Protests in Lebanon Near U.S. Embassy After Trump’s Jerusalem Decision<br />that declares on this day the highest degree of solidarity with the Palestinian people and its right<br />10, 2017<br />BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanese security forces on Sunday fired tear gas and water cannons into crowds<br />that had gathered near the United States Embassy to protest President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.<br />In a statement, the Prosperous Justice Party described Mr. Trump’s decision as "a form of humiliation and provocation against Muslims all over the world." Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, has said<br />that Mr. Trump’s move was a violation of United Nations resolutions.<br />Thousands of protesters chanted slogans against Mr. Trump’s orders, which involving moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, with some throwing rocks<br />and setting tires and a large trash container on fire outside the embassy’s highly secured gated compound in a suburb north of the capital, Beirut.<br />Mr. Trump’s decision, which dealt a blow to the idea of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem<br />as its capital, has been widely condemned across the Arab world and beyond.<br />Many waved Palestinian flags and the flags of Lebanese parties, including those of Arab nationalists<br />and Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia and political party formed to fight Israel.<br />In the capital, protesters wearing traditional white Islamic robes carried Indonesian<br />and Palestinian flags, along with banners reading, "Free Jerusalem and Palestinians," "We are with the Palestinians" and "U.S.
