BEIRUT, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Lebanese security forces used teargas and water cannon to repel scores of protesters demonstrating on Wednesday near the U.S. embassy in Beirut against what they said was Israel's attack on a hospital in Gaza that killed hundreds of Palestinians. The United States has been targeted for criticism across the region for pledging ironclad support for Israel in its war in Gaza after Palestinian Islamist group Hamas carried out a deadly cross-border attack into Israel on Oct. 7. Demonstrators, who blame Israel for Tuesday's blast at...

Hundreds of Lebanese demonstrators waving Palestinian and Hamas flags surrounded the U.S. embassy in Beirut Tuesday night after Hamas falsely accused Israel of hitting a Gaza hospital in an airstrike. The protesters gathered at the U.S. embassy hours before President Joe Biden was scheduled to arrive in neighboring Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a show of solidarity with Israel as it responds to the devastating Hams terrorist attack on October 7. The demonstration also came after the terrorist group Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon, called...

Lebanon's Hezbollah denounced what the group said was Israel's deadly attack on a Gaza hospital and called for "a day of unprecedented anger" on Wednesday, as protests erupted outside the U.S. embassy in Beirut just hours after the incident. Iran-backed Hezbollah, which fought a war with Israel in 2006, made the call for the day pf protest in Beirut in a statement late Tuesday, after Palestinian officials said hundreds of people died in the strike on the hospital. Israel's military denied responsibility for the bombing, saying military intelligence suggested the...

Thousands of anti-United States demonstrators descended on the U.S. embassy in Beirut following a bomb or missile strike on a Christian Gaza hospital. The Tuesday explosion at the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City was blamed on a misfired rocket from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group by Israel and on an Israeli air force air strike by Hamas and Palestinian authorities. Most of the Muslim world immediately accepted the latter explanation, with Hezbollah declaring a "day of unprecedented anger" against Israel soon after. The group also laid significant blame for...

Hundreds of Lebanese protesters, including some waving Palestinian flags, swarmed the US embassy in Beirut Tuesday evening in response to the massive blast at a Gaza City hospital that reportedly killed hundreds of people. Police had to deploy tear gas to disperse the demonstrators who gathered outside the embassy hours ahead of President Biden’s arrival in neighboring Israel to show support for the Jewish state in its conflict with the terrorist group Hamas. One protester was seen on video posted to social media scaling a barbed-wire fence surrounding the building...