Demonstrators knock on a metal fence set up by security forces during a protest against the U.S. President Donald Trump's plan for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict near the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. The "deal of the century" was revealed by Trump on January 28 in the presence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The U.S. plan heavily favored Israel, granting the Palestinians limited self-rule in parts of the occupied West Bank while allowing Israel to annex all its settlements there and keep nearly all of east Jerusalem, which Palestinians claim as the capital of a future Palestinian state. It also includes the naturalization of Palestinian refugees in their current countries of residence, which Lebanon strongly rejects as it shelters 600,000 Palestinian refugees, as well as 1.5 million refugees from Syria, despite having a population of four million.
