Hezbollah supporters clash with protesters
denied his group was affiliated with a party, saying that they were part of “civil society”.
“We want real reforms. The people are hungry and want to live,” Hassan Ahmad said.
The scuffle broke out only hours after Mr Aoun, an ally of Hezbollah, addressed his country for the first time since the protests began, vowing to tackle corruption. But he insisted that the streets were no place to bring down the government.
“Aoun is doing what he can. We need to give him time,” Mr Ahmad said.
A picture of the governor of Lebanon’s central bank, Riad Salameh, was stuck to the front window of Mr Ahmad’s lorry, with the words of a popular protest slogan: “All of them means all of them”.
It refers to the demand for the resignation of all of Lebanon’s leaders.
Mr Salameh has been a frequent target of Hezbollah in the past few months.
The party accuses him of being overzealous in following US sanctions targeting Lebanese banks that work with the Iranbacked group.
Mr Ahmad’s support of President Aoun, 84, contrasted with the mood among other protesters.
“He said he would introduce reforms that we have been talking about for 30 years. Why didn’t he start working on them before?” a teacher said.
She criticised the president for not giving his speech on live TV, with Mr Aoun choosing instead to record it.
“He is hiding from us. In Lebanese companies, people retire at 64. That should be applied to presidents too,” she said.