2019 Lebanese protests are a series of protests in response to the government's failure to find solutions to an economic crisis that has been looming for the past year.[1] It is suspected that the direct trigger to the protests were due to the planned imposed taxes on gasoline, tobacco and online phone calls such as through WhatsApp,[2][3][4]as protests broke out right after Cabinet talks of the taxes, due to be ratified by October 22.[5][6]