-- Reuters citing Justice Minister: Cabinet has approved draft law to lift banking secrecy.

-- The Chinese Embassy in Lebanon announced in a statement on Thursday that a Chinese company operating in Lebanon, along with the Chinese diaspora in Lebanon have provided medical equipment to the Ministry of Public Health to help the country in its fight against the novel coronavirus.

The only way this will be effective is if the prosecutor also extended this ruling to other countries by activating the judicial treaties between Lebanon and Europe.

🇮🇱🇱🇧 -- Two IDF AF jets are making very low passes over Lebanon, to the point where eyewitnesses are seeing them clearly with the naked eye over Al Bazoreyeh.

🇮🇱🇱🇧 -- 2 Israeli F-16s noted over south Beirut, Lebanon.

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🇱🇧🇬🇧 -- Lebanese Health ministry announces a new case of COVID-19 infection in a women that arrived from the UK. @nauala

-- A photo from the limited disinfecting campaign in some public places in Beirut. @nauala

-- A protest is now ongoing infront of the central bank in Hamra, Beirut.

-- A motorized protest took place tonight in Jal Al Dib.

-- Former PM Saad Hariri: The decision against banks that was announced today is a "coup" against the economic system and a step that takes Lebanon back to the time of totalitarian regimes.

Of course he will say so, he owns a bank.

-- PSP leader Walid Joumblat was against the order too.

Therefore let's see how long this order will last, before the prosecutor is forced to withdraw it.

-- Judge Ghassan Oweidat has met with a delegation from the Association of Banks to seek clarification on issues related to the Financial Prosecutor’s decision in preparation for suspending the decision to freeze bank assets; no statement will be made tonight.

Judge Ghassan is loyal to Hariri.

-- Lebanese Association of Banks: Normal working day tomorrow in banks.

-- Court of Cassation Attorney General Ghassan Oweidat will order to freeze the decision taken by Financial Prosecutor Ali Ibrahim after receiving reports from international bodies about the decision's impact on Lebanese banking sector and image of Lebanon abroad.

And the banks and corruption in Lebanon win again.

-- It's officially frozen.

The judge of corruption has done it.

According to several lawyers what Ghasan did is illegal because:
1- The prosecutor's ruling was judicial and not administrative as Ghasan named it.
2- There isn't anything in law called freezing, so the when Ghasan said I'm freezing Ibrahim's ( Prosecutor) order this doesn't mean anything.
3- The official judicial administrative time ended at 4 pm and Ghasan issued it late at night and not under the noscript of "Urgent".

-- What Lebanese Dima? The ones who can't get their money from the banks because the banks misplaced them by bad investments? Or the Lebenese who lost all their saving after the banks and the central bank contributed in the inflation of the exchange rates leading to 18% devaluation of the lira?

-- Protests in Hamra now.

-- Protests in Zalka.

Note: This particular image is 2 hours old.

-- Protesters' tent in Sawfar was burnt just now.