Protesters blocked a number of roads and set tires and garbage containers on fire in separate areas of Lebanon;

To protest the deteriorating economic and living conditions.

A number of young people in Tripoli set tires on fire in Al-Nour Square in protest against the high exchange rate of the US dollar and the high prices of main commodities.

While protesters closed one of the main streets in the capital, Beirut, denouncing the living crisis and the scarcity of fuel.

In Sidon, young men closed a number of roads for some time before the security forces reopened them.

In Nabatiyeh (south), the demonstrators stopped their cars in the middle of a vital road, according to the same source.

The rise in discontent in the street comes on the eve of the scheduled increase in fuel prices after the government's decision to reduce subsidies on oil derivatives.

The demonstrators also expressed their discontent with the long hours of power outage, sometimes exceeding 21 hours a day, in addition to the rationing imposed by the owners of neighborhood generators due to the lack of fuel, which also led to work disruptions in some hospitals today, Monday, and the work of the Public Security headquarters in Beirut stopped. According to local media.

In view of the deteriorating situation, Lebanese President Michel Aoun called the Higher Defense Council to a meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, dedicated to discussing the "security situation."

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And yesterday, Saturday, about 20 people were injured during night demonstrations in the city of Tripoli (north), with the continued deterioration of the value of the Lebanese pound to unprecedented levels on the black market.

Since the outbreak of the crisis in the fall of 2019, ranked among the most severe since 1850, according to the World Bank;

The Lebanese pound has lost more than 95% of its value against the dollar.

The price of the dollar has been fixed at 1,507 pounds since 1997, but the price of the dollar has now reached 17,000 pounds.

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And the General Directorate of Oil in the Ministry of Energy announced on Monday evening that it "is in the process of issuing a price synthesis schedule for fuels on Tuesday morning at the exchange rate of one dollar at 3900 Lebanese pounds", compared to 1500 in the past.

This coincides with the high rate of unemployment and inflation, the absence of a large number of medicines, and the high prices of mostly imported foodstuffs;

This has accelerated the spread of poverty on a large scale, with half of the population now living below the poverty line, according to the United Nations.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri has not been able, since his assignment last October, to complete his mission to form a new government.