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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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The value of the Lebanese Lira to 1$:

-- 2.3 in 1974

-- 2.73 in 1976 (1 year after the civil war starts)

-- 3.64 in 1980 (2 years after Israel's first invasion)

-- 5.49 in 1982 (The year Israel invaded lebanon again and reached Beirut)

-- 18.10 in 1985

-- 529 in 1988

-- 928 in 1991 (End of the civil war)

-- 1712 in 1992 (Post civil war when Rafic Al Hariri laid his control over Lebanon's economy and rebuilding effort)

-- 1527 in 1997

-- 1507 in 2000 (Year of liberation from Israeli occupation)
-- The minister of economy just withdraw the license of "La Vie", and ordered it to remove all of its products from the market.

Reason is unknown.
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-- Mayor of Marjayoun gifts Lebanese ISF $500,000 check.

It's kinda ironic if you remember what happened in 2006.
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-- Picture released by Israel's Channel 12 news shows just how bad the flooding was. Eight F-16 fighter jets were damaged, but all are expected to be repaired and return to operational duty by next week.
-- Israel Air Force: damage to infrastructure & equipment is estimated at NIS 30 million. Five of the damaged planes have returned to the skies, another 3 are still being repaired. Hatzor base commander will leave his position, 3 other senior IAF officers will be reprimanded.
-- Dear secretary Pompoe, first of all Hezbullah isn't involved in the idlib battle.

-- Second of all, the 7 Turkish commandos were not only safe guarding Al Qaeda in idlib, the same place you found Al Baghdadi's safe house, but were actually embedded with the HTS foreign terrorist groups fighting the UN recognized Syrian government.
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-- Dear secretary Pompoe, first of all Hezbullah isn't involved in the idlib battle. -- Second of all, the 7 Turkish commandos were not only safe guarding Al Qaeda in idlib, the same place you found Al Baghdadi's safe house, but were actually embedded with…
Note: Since this channel rarely comments on other ME related news, I won't go into details about the number and origin of the foreign fighters in Syria. You can ask for that in the group if you are interested.
-- The Lebanese army arrested 4 Syrian refugees in Arsal city, Beqaa province for being members of ISIS and participating in the battle of Arsal in 2014.
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🇮🇱🇱🇧 -- On this day, the 4th of February 2000, Hezbullah attacked an IDF occupation outpost inside Lebanon killing 3 IDF soldiers.

-- The fighter that fired that ATGM strike is Ali Saleh (Bilal Adsheit), the man behind the Merkava ambush in Slouki valley in 2006.
Iranian Activist:
— "By China’s agreement, Iran sent an airplane to bring back its student.

The authorities also agreed with Iranian students’ suggestion and 54 Iraqis, 24 Syrians and one Lebanese citizen left Wuhan via the Iranian airliner."
-- Hezbullah announces this year's logo that commemorates the anniversary of his martyred leaders (Sheikh Raghib Harb, Sayed Abbas Al Mousawi, and Imad Moghnieh), along with the 40th day anniversary of Hajj Qassem Soleimani and Hajj Abu Mahdi Al Muhandis.

-- The logo is noscriptd: The leaders of Vision and Martyrdom.
— In a disgusting manner, the bodyguards of the parliament member Ziad Aswad, assaulted physically a protestor who tried to harass Ziad in a public place. — Even if we disagree with public harassment of politicians, what this lawmaker did was something very shameful, and the tears of this man from Tripoli should have never been shed.
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— In a disgusting manner, the bodyguards of the parliament member Ziad Aswad, assaulted physically a protestor who tried to harass Ziad in a public place. — Even if we disagree…
— Ziad is from the FPM party, and is know to be a very racist and sectarian politician. — This will be a test for the new government to see if it will do something about this.
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— Ziad is from the FPM party, and is know to be a very racist and sectarian politician. — This will be a test for the new government to see if it will do…
-- A similar incident happened but this time with the Druze politician Talal Erslan.

-- His bodyguards assaulted the activitist Firas Abo Hatoum.
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— Ziad is from the FPM party, and is know to be a very racist and sectarian politician. — This will be a test for the new government to see if it will do…
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-- Lara Bitar: Tripoli protesters and residents boiling with anger after this attack, with some circulating voice notes saying the time to be peaceful is over.

-- In this video you can hear the protesters cursing the Aounist party (FPM).

-- There are also calls to go now to Jounieh-Keserwan area.
-- Yet again with alleged experts who can't read basic arabic to read what's written on these images.

-- First of all the martyr in the first picture died inside lebanon inside a Hezbullah training camp in South lebanon by a grenade/IED.

-- Regarding the second, the image clearly says فقيد الجهاد و المقاومة. This translates to the one who is missed by the Jihad and the Moqawama. It is said to those who die of illness and not battle (Ammar Darwich).

-- Regarding the remaining three, only one of the 3 is from the recent events (Middle picture) and he was killed by an ATGM strike in Syria not during combat. Hezbullah didn't participate in Allepo battles yet.
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-- A similar incident happened but this time with the Druze politician Talal Erslan. -- His bodyguards assaulted the activitist Firas Abo Hatoum.
-- An old Facebook post for Firas just surfaced, in it insulting Hezbullah's Secretary General and the two injured Hezbullah fighters.

-- In another post one of these two injured replied to his post.