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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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Reports of explosion/fire in Al Zaatari factory in Ghazieyh.
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The fire is inside one of the hangars in the industrial city of Ghaziyeh.
I am convinced that the official IDF account on Twitter is run by a 16 year old.

The cringe is unbearable.
Azerbaijan is ready to host a trilateral summit with Turkey and Israel, and Baku is doing everything it could do to improve Turkish - Israeli relationship says Aliyev’s chief foreign policy advisor Hikmet Hajiyev
Lebanese diaspora need to set priorities straight.

Why is anyone donating to a nightclub when there is much more dire need somewhere else in Lebanon. What's next? A fundraiser for Bank Audi?
This is what the HSV-2 Swift hybrid catamaran looks like now, which was leased by the UAE Navy and then hit by Ansarullah anti-ship missile in the Red Sea in 2016.
Iraq: This is the number of MPs present in the session devoted to discussing the tragedy of the fire that killed at least 82 and injured over 100 in Baghdad Abu Al-Khatib Hospital on Saturday, after the explosion of an oxygen tank.

Once again showcasing the isolation of many of the political class from the reality of the people's suffering.
Palestine: Gaza:

The Golani Brigade, which serves on the borders of Palestine with (Lebanon / Syria), receives instructions to prepare to move to the southern front (Gaza) within a short time.
Swarms of locusts invaded the border town of Al-Qasr in Hermel in northern Bekaa and spread in its orchards.

Appeals from the people to the Ministry of Agriculture and the army leadership to combat them as soon as possible.
Lebanese Customs have arrested 4 individuals involved in smuggling a shipment of Captagon to Saudi Arabia.
أصاب بعض أهل البيت الشيعي في لبنان ما أصاب المسلمين من فتنة و مرض في القلب، كيوم أتى الخوارج لولي الله الأعظم و قالو له "الحكم لله"

"ولَٰكن تَعْمَى الْقُلُوب الَّتي فِي الصُّدُورِ" فلم يدركوا أن نور الله في علي. و ان حزب الله هو نور علي و السبيل للنجاة و من تخلف لم يبلغ الفتح
Beautiful pink moon tonight as seen from Beirut.
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Border encounter, likely recent, between IDF and locals (and Hezbullah) near the border.
At the border
Hussein is not worth replying to, but I'm doing it for general knowledge.

Food aid is arriving to all needy families in Beirut, south, and Beqaa. Political affiliation or religion is not part of who takes what.

https://twitter.com/hahussain/status/1379963052800495619
This aid is different than the one offered as money, or as clothes, or as fuel, or as Al Sajjad Card. So as scholarship for schools, or medication etc etc.

Just last year, Hezbullah's Ramadan aid assisted 133 thousand family. With an average of 4/family, that's about 500,000.
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Here is a brief infographics (in Arabic) of Hezbullah yearly aid to 4 Lebanese provinces during the holy month of Ramadan.

That's just for Ramadan and it does not include Hezbullah's other social work. Hezbullah will make its best to lower the effects of the collapse on its people.