The central bank has announced the increase of the semi official exchange rate to 15,200 LL, from 12,000.

Protesters blocked corniche road with waste containers to protest the deteriorating living conditions and the rise in the price of the dollar.

Roads were also blocked in Chouafit, Dahyeh, and Khaldeh.

Beirut: 3 Energa anti-tank grenades, with their stuffing, were thrown in a waste container opposite the Sunday market.

Lebanese army experts are currently working to safely remove them.

This is the 4th similar case in Beirut:
- Choueifat, 4 July
- Verdun, 18 June
- Saqiyet Al-Janzir, 17 June

Video of the smugglers.

Quite an interesting development on the border.

According to a friend, these handguns are Glock 17, 19, 20, 23, 26.

Some have ZEV Technologies parts, with slides going alone for $600. These are very expensive parts and exclusive to USA markets only.

Check out this article from 2017. Handguns have always been expensive and considered weapons of status. 500-600$ Glocks in the USA would be sold here for $3,000.

stepfeed.com/we-talked-to…

Energa's found in Beirut:

Photo of the Energa grenades and anti-personnel land mines discovered by security forces in a bin. They were likely dumped after receiving a tip of an incoming raid.

⋯ They were located in Ashrafieh, a place with considerable Lebanese Forces presence, in their original cases, all new and not old stock.

I couldn't ID them, but I suspect they might be of Iranian origin.

Investigation on port blast:

Parliament speaker Nabih Berri and interior minister Mohammed Fahmy refused to allow Judge Bitar to prosecute a list of officials.

In protest, families of victims set off for a car rally towards the Parliament and the Ministry of Interior, in addition to a third point that was not disclosed, describing it as a “surprise”.

Israeli media:

"Security officials believe the smuggled guns on the Lebanese border last night, were destined to be used for attacks in Israel along the border."

Is Hezbullah arming the arabs of the Galilee!?

Investigation on port blast:

Families of victims met with the Minister of Interior: "We had hoped for a positive outcome, but it is clear that he is caught between two great fires. Or he is under pressure, and he cannot escape this pressure. Or he is burdened by the ministry's legal department."

Armed clashes erupted in the Bab al-Hadid area of ​​Tripoli between members of two families, in which machine guns were used.

The Lebanese army is working to arrest the shooters.

Yossi Cohen, who retired as head of the Mossad last month, will be appointed as the director of Israel operations for Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank, Globes reported on Friday.

The SoftBank Group invests in companies operating in the technology, energy and finance

SoftBank group has well-known ties with Saudi crown prince Mohammad Ben Salman and KSA.

More on that, and how Saudi Arabia invested tens of billions of dollars in a firm now led by the Mossad chief:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a…

*Insert Bankers Meme*

🚨 The Israeli enemy fired a number of Flares in the skies of the southern outskirts of the town of Aita al-Shaab on the border with, occupied Palestine.

UAVs are also airborne.

⚽️ Barcelona plans to play against the notorious anti-Arab football club "Beitar Jerusalem", a club never to sign an Arab player, and whose motto is "forever pure" [tehorah la'ad].

The match on August 4, is planned in the Malha district, the site of a Palestinian village that was ethnically cleansed by Zionist paramilitaries.

https://palresponds.com/palestin…

🦠 Rabies: Noticeable increase of people infected with rabies in the past days, after vaccines have run out in Lebanon, which prompted a private company in Syria to send 120 ⁠vaccines to Lebanon.

The vaccine is almost completely out of stock since October 2020, as the central bank has not provided USD to purchase it. Lebanon needs 10,000 doses annually, and each infected person needs 4 ⁠doses.

https://bintjbeil.org/post/43116/

Hezbullah's office in Tehran stated that Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has no presence on social media, and that the content published on an account on social media has no attribution to him and cannot be cited.

By: @‌‌‎libaniran

⚽️ #ENG #ITA #EURO2020

For her sake, England should win!