Lebanese Stage Protest to Denounce Saudi Aggression against Yemen
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The Lebanese people along with Palestinian and Yemeni expatriates living in Lebanon staged a protest in the country on Tuesday to denounce the US-led Saudi military aggression against Yemen.
Protesters took to the streets near the United Nations [UN] headquarters in Lebanon’s capital city of Beirut on Tuesday, calling on the UN and the international community to stop the Saudi strikes.
The demonstrators carried banners and shouted slogans against the Saudi regime during the protest, which was organized by the Lebanese committee for solidarity with Yemen.
According to the latest UN figures, the Saudi military campaign has so far claimed the lives of over 1,400 people and injured close to 6,000.
Saudi Arabia began its military aggression against Yemen on March 26 - without a UN mandate - in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement, and to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a close ally of Saudi Arabia.
