🚨 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.

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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.

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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.

Armed protests in Tripoli:

Protesters blocked Hay Al-Selom road towards Al-Mareijah with burning tires (NNA). (Developing)

Tripoli: Information about the theft of a gasoline tanker by some men in "Hosh al-Ubaid" area in the port.

Companies are now refraining from sending fuel tanks to Tripoli and Akkar because of their exposure to burglaries. Owners of bakeroes and generators appeal to the army chief to protect them due to the lack of diesel in the towns.

🚨 Hezbullah just engaged with 4 drones over Hay Madeh, Beirut.

Same area of 2019's suicide drone attack.

12 were wounded in a dispute over gasoline at a petrol station in Deir Al-Zahrani town in Nabatiyeh district.

By: @‌‌‎bintjbeilnews

A brawl in front of a petrol station in Abbasiyeh, Tyre.

Haaretz: Israel hits another 3-month COVID high as the Indian delta variant spreads. Experts warn infections will triple in 10 days.

None are serious cases.

Shortage of fuel:

Abu Shakra: "Gasoline ships started unloading and the importing companies started distributing fuel to the stations today, and there are companies that expressed their willingness to distribute on holidays to ease the market."

The price increased from 24,000 ⁠LL to 71,000 ⁠LL. This new price is at an exchange rate of 3,900 ⁠LL to a $1, way lower than the actual exchange rate of 17,000 ⁠LL.

The fuel bought is meant to last Lebanon ONLY 3 months. After that, unless they use the mandatory reserves again, NO more money to buy fuel.

Earlier today: Shooting in front of a gas station in Zahle.

Brawl between the Lebanese army and others at ebanon's Green gas station, in Ain Baal.