(8 Dec 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut - 8 December 2023
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1. Various of protesters staging sit-in near French embassy, taping their mouths and putting mock coffins with names of dead children of Gaza on them while surrounded by Lebanese army soldiers preventing them from approaching the French embassy
2. Wide of man holding Palestinian flag and shouting at Lebanese army soldiers UPSOUND (Arabic):
"This is our crime, that we stand with humanity. Isn't that right, soldier? Are we forbidden from showing our humanity? People are dying while we must remain silent."
3. Man taping his mouth symbolising silence about about Gaza
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dania Dandashli, sit-in organiser:
“We are here to denounce the massacres that are happening to our people and children in Gaza. We hold the French embassy present here responsible because they are direct contributors to the killing of the people in Gaza. The French government, the British government, the American government, and other Arab governments are direct partners in the killing of the people of Gaza.”
5. Wide of protesters taking away their props and moving to another location which are the steps of the Lebanese National Museum in Beirut
6. Tilt down from columns of Lebanese National Museum to group of protesters on its steps
7. Various of protesters sitting on museum steps with mock coffins and wrapped bodies in front of them, sealing their mouths with tapes reading (English) 'Gaza’, 'Palestine' and coffin reading (English) "Bombed and buried alive under the rubble by the occupying IOF"
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8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nisreen Shamseddine, Lebanese protestor:
"We are people who want justice and peace in the world. We do not accept our neighbours being killed in this manner while the world remains silent."
9. Close of woman with tape over mouth reading (French) 'the silence is complicit'
10. Various of protesters on steps of museum
11. Various of mock coffins in front of protesters showing Palestinian flag on it and names of dead Palestinian children
STORYLINE:
Dozens of Lebanese mothers and other protesters gathered on Friday near the French Embassy in Beirut, amid heavy security, to demand an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.
The protesters had tape over their mouths with reading "Gaza" and "Palestine" and placed mock coffins symbolizing civilian casualties in Gaza.
“We are here to denounce the massacres that are happening to our people and children in Gaza,” Dania Dandashli, said an organizer of the sit-in.
The protest then moved to the Lebanese National Museum where participants broadcasted sounds of the bombing in Gaza and the cries of Palestinian children, women, and men through loudspeakers.
"We are people who want justice and peace in the world. We do not accept our neighbours being killed in this manner while the world remains silent," said one of the protesters, Nisreen Shamseddine.
Pro-Palestinian protests and public demonstrations have taken place daily in Lebanon in support of the people of Gaza, who are facing daily Israeli bombing following the Oct. 7, attack by the militant Hamas group on southern Israel.
The United Nations estimates 1.9 million people have been displaced and new military evacuation orders are squeezing people into ever-smaller areas. Most lack food, water and medicine.
Around 1,200 people have died on the Israeli side, mainly civilians killed during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack that triggered the war.
The Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said the death toll in the territory has surpassed 17,400, with more than 46,000 wounded.
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