Tripoli: Locals took over the streets in armed protests. The army is heavily deployed in the area.

(Update) No truth to the news of a child dead due to the lack of electricity.

A lady blocked a road in prostest.

Backstory: She used to protest because she couldn't find affordable food for her dog.

📈 Electricity blackout in Tripoli, Dennyeh and Akkar, as owners of private generators turned off power supply to due to the lack of fuel. (Al-Manar reporter)

📈 Tripoli: The Social Security Center stopped operating after running out of diesel for private generators, power outages.

Internet service is also down.

Armed protests in Tripoli:

Armed men continue to deploy, while the useless Lebanese army left the area.

(Developing)

Tripoli

Tripoli: The army withdrew from most of the streets and neighborhoods due to the great congestion and heavy shooting by angry citizens.

The situation is similar to an armed revolution in some neighborhoods.

From the Lebanese army patrols in Tripoli, Northern Lebanon.

Al Nejmeh square.

🚨 The Parliament passed a law to set up a ration card program, and to replace the current subsidies system. It aims to provide Lebanon’s poorest families with $93 per month (on average).

It looks similar to Syria's "Smart Card" and to a large-scale operation of Hezbullah's "Al-Sajjad Card".

Problem: What criteria will be used to define who is poor? (a majority of the Lebanese now identify so). The funding mechanism is left up to the cabinet.

https://today.lorientlejour.com/a…

Hamas's visit in Lebanon:

Yesterday, the Hamas delegation met with Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Head of Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh:

- We salute our people in Lebanon, and we salute the spirit of the martyr Muhammad Tahan, the son of our brothers of Hezbollah, who rose on the road to Jerusalem, and I contacted his family.

- Part of our conversation with Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was about reconciliation between our nations [Syria...], and we can build bridges.

By: @‌‌‎YounesZaatari

IDF relaxed the time required for entering shelters after hearing sirens in the Galilee, the Golan and other areas in northern Palestine, to 15 ⁠seconds.

To put it clearly: Israelis now have to run to shelters in 15 ⁠seconds after hearing sirens of rockets coming from Lebanon. Before, Israelis had to immediately run to shelters. But now, with better radar coverage by Israel, the warning system has added a 15-second warning before impact.

For other areas, the 15-second warning increased to 30 ⁠seconds.

(Edited)

Video from the area

📈 The Ministry of Economy announces raising the price of bread bags weighing 900 ⁠grams to 3,750 ⁠LBP and the 400 ⁠grams bag to 2,750 ⁠LBP.

The large bag (900 ⁠grams) was decreased from the standard 975 ⁠grams. The size was decreased and the price increased.

Jihad Al Arab, a contractor close to Saad Al Hariri who was awarded projets worth tens of millions, has announced he is ceasing work in Lebanon and permanently leaving Lebanon with his family.

He's the #1 contractor in Lebanon. More on him:
https://al-akhbar.com/Politics/8159

Add to that, no truth that to the news that the son of Hezbullah's MP Amin Cherri was at a dinner with Jihad.

Jihad wasn't even in Lebanon.