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Iran-backed Shiite militia Hezbollah in Lebanon is calling for Wednesday to be a “day of wrath” to condemn the deadly attack on a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday.
“Let tomorrow, Wednesday, be a day of anger against the enemy,” Hezbollah said in a statement, urging Muslims and Arabs to “immediately take to the streets and squares to express their intense anger.”
At Hezbollah’s urging, hundreds of protesters gathered and clashed with Lebanese security forces outside the US embassy in Awkar, northern Lebanon. The protesters threw stones and set fire to a building, according to an AFP correspondent on the scene.
Police fired tear gas at the protesters who chanted “death to the USA” and “death to Israel”.
Several hundred protesters also gathered outside the French embassy in Beirut where they raised a Hezbollah flag and threw stones at the embassy’s entrance.
Hezbollah, which is allied with the terror-labelled Islamist group Hamas, blames the hospital attack on Israel, calling it a “massacre” and a “brutal crime”.
The Israeli military (IDF), for its part, claims innocence and says that Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian armed group in Gaza, fired several rockets near the hospital and that one of them misfired.