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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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📈 Report: A state of confusion prevails at the cargo center of Beirut Airport, after customs have stopped collecting fees due to lack of papers and ink pads.

“This could completely paralyze the movement of freight, with dire repercussions.”
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Shortage of fuel:

Gasoline prices are expected to increase on Wednesday, because it is now subsidized at a dollar exchange rate of 3,900 ⁠LL, no longer 1,515 ⁠LL.

Long queues persist in the remaining petrol stations. This video is from Al-Aytam petrol station on the Airport road.
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Airport road was blocked by van drivers, protesting the dire economic situation.
Earlier today, van drivers also blocked the international highway at Dahr Al Baydar between Lebanon and Syria.

Note: MANY (3/4th) of these vans have forged "Taxi driver plates".
🚨 Shortage of fuel:

The Russian delegation met with the Minister of Public Works, Michel ⁠Najjar, and requested a permit to enter the ports of Beirut and Tripoli for a period of 3 days before submitting a final offer to expand the two ports and build cereal silos, for the benefit of Lebanon.

In the evening, the delegation will meet with the Minister of Energy, Raymond Ghajar, and present an offer to build two power plants and operate the (obsolete) Al-Badawi and Al-Zahrani refineries.
Hamas's visit in Lebanon:

The delegation met with President Michel Aoun. Meetings are expected soon with PM Hassan Diab, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, friendly local political parties, and Hezbullah at an undisclosed time.

CC: @‌‌‎YounesZaatari
Hamas's visit in Lebanon:

President Aoun: We express Lebanon's adherence to its firm position in support of the Palestinian cause, and its rejection of [re]settling [in Lebanon], and we commend the distinguished role played by the Palestinian resistance during the battle of the Sword of Jerusalem.
Hamas's visit in Lebanon:

The caretaker PM Hassan Diab received, at the Grand Serail, the head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, along with Saleh Al-Arouri, Khalil Al-Haya, Izzat Al-Rishq, Osama Hamdan, and Ahmed Abd Al-Hadi.
Today is the first day of blackouts for ⁠me, in the absence of government electricity and private generators.

The blackout was about 7-8 hours.
📈 Syndicate of supermarket owners:

"Today, the suppliers did not distribute goods to supermarkets... and prices will rise due to the expected cost of diesel, and the significant impact of the rise of the dollar exchange rate."

Most supermarkets were closed today.
Two hours ago: An explosion in the office of lawyer Sakher Al-Hashem in Furn Al-Chebbak, without causing any human casualties.

He is Carlos Ghosn's lawyer.
There was no reported jet activity over lebanon for weeks, but was there any drone activity?

When IDF is silent, it's when alert should be raised not when they bark out loud.

Any uptick in drone activity is for information gathering in preparation for something. Absent too!?
Security forces at the Palestinian embassy in Beirut attacked the protesters in front of the building, over the assassination of Nizar Banat.
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📈 Four petrol stations in Nabatiyeh and Ansar were forced to sell gasoline by the security forces. One station was sealed with red wax in Jarjoa after its owner refused to open it to citizens, despite having a stock of gasoline.
A large number of petrol stations, more than thirty, were opened today by the security services after discovering their hidden stockpile, which was estimated at thousands of liters of gasoline. (NBN)
🦠 Israel's expired vaccines:

Israel is preparing to destroy one million and 400 thousand vaccines if no country purchases them within two weeks, as they expire within the next month.

Pfizer gave Israel priority over all, and now vaccines are being wasted.
US airstrikes on PMF's sites:

First retaliation was done from Syria, by unnamed resistance factions, with 8 rockets fired at USA occupation forces in Syria.

Several rockets landed inside the base, causing material damage.
American occupation forces in Syria retaliated with artillery.

Reports of renewed rocket fire against the occupation.