A number of young men blocked the main highway Tuesday in the al-Abdeh area at Akkar's southern entrance “in solidarity with Aleppo's people” and to “condemn the world's silence,” state-run National News Agency reported.
Protesters used burning tires to block the vital highway that links Lebanon to Syria.
Civilians and opposition fighters will start evacuating east Aleppo "within hours" under a deal with Syria's regime, a rebel official said Tuesday, as global outrage mounted over reports of atrocities including summary executions.
The United Nations and aid agencies have been pleading for a ceasefire to allow for the evacuation of tens of thousands of civilians trapped in the last pocket of rebel territory in Aleppo.
After weeks of heavy fighting, forces loyal to President Bashar Assad are in the last hours of a push to take full control of the city, dealing the biggest blow to Syria's rebellion in more than five years of civil war.
Aleppo, a cultural and economic hub in northern Syria second only to Damascus in importance, had been split between a rebel-controlled east and government-held west since 2012.
Recapturing all of Aleppo will be a huge victory for Assad and leave his regime in control of all five of Syria's main cities.
