"Our revolution is peaceful" .. How do women protect the protests in Lebanon?

Women play a crucial role in protecting the protests from sliding into violence, according to the Middle East Eye website.

The website says the women's front has defied the security forces and the violence caused by Hezbollah supporters in the past few days to keep the protests from falling into violence and thus derail it.

By emphasizing their role in the protests, women are re-introducing their role in Lebanon.

For a week, women have formed a wall between protesters and security forces to ensure the revolution's peacefulness, and now face a new challenge as women police deploy to help open roads.

The women's front began on the third day of protests when a group of women stood between riot police and protesters outside a government building in Beirut.

After two days of protests in which tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons were dispersed to disperse the protesters, the desire of women not to repeat such incidents was reflected.

"They're not going to be beaten," said Heba, a 19-year-old student at the American University. "Our presence in large numbers will stop violence on both sides."

As the importance of what women do is widespread, the women's front has grown in number and strength over the days during the protests.

Outside and central Beirut, women played a key role in making the protests a success. When protesters blocked roads to pressure the government, police tried in vain to open them because of the women's role.

In Abu Hassan, 30, says: "The police will not be able to get us out of the street."

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"What we are trying to do is to show that women have a role to play in protecting the country's peace," she said. "These are peaceful protests and they should be.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri has repeatedly stressed that the government supports peaceful demonstrations, and Nabila believes that if the protests are not peaceful, the government will declare a state of emergency and thus prevent protests by force.

According to Nabila, her role as a mother contributed to the support of the feminist front. "I first showed my solidarity, so I realized there was a lot of help we could provide," she says.

In the stormy weather conditions that women rarely get used to, Nabila sent a text message to fellow mothers at school, and by midnight the blankets and tents donated by mothers flowed.

After the protests stabilized within a week, women faced a new challenge: intervention by Hezbollah supporters who tried to clash with protesters on Thursday and Friday to dissuade them from sit-ins and protests.

But an estimated 100 women stood as a barrier between protesters and Hizbollah supporters, whose secretary-general, Hassan Nasrallah, has demanded his supporters get out and stay away from the protests.

Whenever Hezbollah supporters can penetrate riot police, they attack women and men, throwing stones at protesters whenever they are unable to penetrate.

"Violence is not characteristic of our revolution. We want a peaceful revolution," said Sipan, one of the women's front organizations.