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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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-- AUBMC will no longer receive coronavirus patients, despite having a floor equipped for these cases.

Why? Because it's reserved for the VIP patients.
-- Amazing job is being made by local communities in Beirut, Beqaa, and south Lebanon to distribute food and necessities to those in need. Until now it has reached 1200 family.
🇱🇧 -- About 100 (out of 333) patients with coronavirus are being hospitalized right now, while the rest were asked to self-quarantine at home. @nauala
🇬🇧-- British Ambassador to 🇱🇧Lebanon, Chris Rampling, tweeted Wednesday on the emerging Corona epidemic, saying: "The challenges posed by the coronavirus are unprecedented in our recent history. The UK has provided Lebanon, in its response to the spread of Corona, equipment and materials worth 340,000 Sterling pounds through the World Health Organization in Lebanon."
-- The Press Office of Lebanese Forces Party Head, Samir Geagea, announced in a statement on Wednesday, that "Geagea contacted this morning Interior and Municipalities Minister, Brigadier General Mohamad Fahmi, with whom he discussed the assassination of Antoine Al-Hayek last Sunday, whereby Fahmy assured Geagea that he has accorded this crime the utmost attention and follow-up from the start, in order to unveil its circumstances."

In turn, Geagea appealed to the Interior Minister to personally follow-up on this issue due to its sensitivity and its impact on coexistence between the Lebanese in general, and in the South in particular.

Note: Hayek is a known deputy of the infamous chief of the infamous torturing prison of Al Khiyam.
— Israeli Air Force Boeing 707 3L6C Air Tanker (272, 738A01) as flight GIANT2 conducts an rarely Aerial refueling AAR fly in the Lebanese FIR in front of Tyre and Saida
-- A sixth coronavirus death has been recorded in Lebanon; the patient in Rafik Hariri Hospital was 46 years old with underlying health issues.
-- Highly active Israeli UAV activity along the Syrian / Lebanese border today and the last few days.

An Israeli strike on Syria is expected today.
-- Hezbollah offered one of his private hospitals in Lebanon (St. George hospital) to support the Lebanese Ministry of Health to face the coronavirus. It will be ready in a couple of days.

It will be dedicated fully for that.
-- An Israeli IDF IAF drone has been circulating over Beirut for the past hour and a half.
🇱🇧-- Breaking: Lebanon extends partial lockdown until April 12.

-- Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni requests all public institutions to close until further notice. @nauala
-- Lebanon Cabinet has approved LL75 billion in aid for families in need amid economic collapse & #coronavirus.

The figure equates to $37.5 million at an exchange rate of LL2000 to the $, or $50 million at the official (but pretty much obsolete) LL1500 rate.
-- Hezbollah drone shot down over Israeli airspace earlier today after crossing from Lebanon.

IAF referred to it as a "model airplane", which seems accurate based on the pictures.
🇱🇧-- Lebanese security forces have since March 21 issued 1534 fines since for violations of the partial lockdown, 184 today.
-- Bsharri municipality calls on residents to quarantine 15 days at home after a doctor in the region's governmental hospital contracts coronavirus.
-- Regarding the wedding where May Chediac got infected that happened in France between two lebanese families, including one that is originally from south Lebanon and lives in Africa, 64 members of the latter has tested positive and are stuck in their current place of residence, Africa.
-- Lebanon banking sector is the second largest in the world in terms of assets/GDP- at 422%.

This is “way above what is needed to fulfil it’s primary role of financing the development of a productive economy,” Finance Ministry says.