Lebanese army and gendarmerie units took control of the situation in the western quarters of Beirut on Tuesday after clashes between supporters of the Al-Mustaqbal Sunni movement and activists from Shiite organizations Amal and Hezbollah, TASS reported.

The situation in the city worsened after the news of the death of two members of the Shiite community, which crashed on Monday into the barriers erected by demonstrators on the Beirut-Sayda highway. Shiite bikers with the flags of Amal and Hezbollah organized marches along the city streets and appeared in the center of the capital, which connects the western and eastern quarters of Beirut. The activists tried to get closer to the tent camp of the protest movement participants at the monument to the fallen heroes, but they failed to break through the police cordons.

According to the Arab television channel Al Hadath, the Lebanese unions supported the call of the demonstrators to hold a general strike in the coming days. The nationwide protest rally, which will cover the public sector and private companies, will begin on November 28 in Beirut and will last three days.

The mass protests in Lebanon that broke out on October 17 led to the resignation of a coalition cabinet led by Saad Hariri on October 29. On November 19, demonstrators foiled a parliamentary session in central Beirut as they blocked all the entrances.