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Rose said that she saw a young man with blood all over his face, apparently after security forces beat him.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EA witness near the parliament entrance at Riad al-Solh told Human Rights Watch that he saw security forces firing rubber bullets without warning from behind the barricades that they had set up after a few protesters tried to kick down a metal barrier. He saw one bullet hit a woman standing nearby in the leg, causing her to fall to the ground screaming in pain.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Lebanese Red Cross \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/RedCrossLebanon\/status\/1221746479410401281\u0022\u003Estated\u003C\/a\u003E that as of 1 p.m., it had transported 8 people to nearby hospitals and treated 19 injured at the scene. 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The committee \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/Akhbaralsaha\/status\/1221795860515868672\u0022\u003Estated\u003C\/a\u003E that four detainees were released shortly after their arrest and went to hospitals for treatment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EKareem Chehayeb, a local journalist and researcher, told Human Rights Watch that protesters tried to obstruct the session because they believe that the 2020 budget, which had been drafted and agreed upon by the government of the former Prime Minister Saad Hariri \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-lebanon-protests-hariri\/lebanon-approves-2020-budget-with-0-6-deficit-hariri-idUSKBN1X01G6\u0022\u003Ein October\u003C\/a\u003E, needs to be revised, given the drastic changes in the economic situation. Several political parties, arguing that the session was \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/timourazhari\/status\/1221743564562014208\u0022\u003Eunconstitutional\u003C\/a\u003E, boycotted the session, saying the new government should have first won a vote of confidence in parliament.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EParliamentarians passed the 2020 budget after a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/timourazhari\/status\/1221774618425536512\u0022\u003Esecret vote\u003C\/a\u003E, three months into mass protests demanding accountability and greater transparency in decision-making.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cblockquote class=\u0022twitter-tweet tw-align-center\u0022\u003E\u0026#13;\n\t\u003Cp dir=\u0022rtl\u0022 lang=\u0022ar\u0022 xml:lang=\u0022ar\u0022 xml:lang=\u0022ar\u0022\u003E\u0628\u0631\u064a\u062f \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%A9?src=hash\u0026amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0022\u003E#\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631_\u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u062d\u0629\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\t\t\u0627\u0639\u062a\u062f\u0627\u0621 \u0639\u0646\u0635\u0631 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u062c\u064a\u0634 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u062d\u062f\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062a\u0638\u0627\u0647\u0631\u0627\u062a \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0642\u0631\u0628 \u0645\u0646 \u0641\u0631\u0646\u0633\u0628\u0646\u0643.\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%B6?src=hash\u0026amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0022\u003E#\u0644\u0628\u0646\u0627\u0646_\u064a\u0646\u062a\u0641\u0636\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/t.co\/dTcEDi618A\u0022\u003Epic.twitter.com\/dTcEDi618A\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\t\u2014 \u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u062d\u0629 (@Akhbaralsaha) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/Akhbaralsaha\/status\/1221731613312278528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0022\u003EJanuary 27, 2020\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u003Cscript async=\u0022\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\u0022 charset=\u0022utf-8\u0022\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n","settings":null},{"command":"insert","method":"prepend","selector":".js-view-dom-id-blog_live_feed__blog_body_block__338249__en","data":"","settings":null}]