Shortage of medicines:

"The Karantina warehouse is almost emptied of the medicines for incurable diseases; the medicines for immune diseases have been lost and medicines for chronic diseases are very scarce", the Minister of Health stated.

⋯ For the Minister of Health, the solution to securing the medicines on the market starts with the release by Banque du Liban of the invoices and lists of subsidized drugs to the Ministry of Health, so that the latter can track distribution and ensure that they're not hoarded in private warehouses.

He adds: Banque du Liban transferred 30 ⁠million dollars to the companies, but the ministry was not informed of which medicines and who received the money.

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Gasoline and diesel are in the tanks of the oil importing companies.

Medicines are in the warehouses of the pharmaceutical companies, who publicize this without any shame, and demand new prices to release the stock.

By: @‌‌‎Sadekalawieh

The security forces arrested a gang of thieves who performed a large heist involving 400,000 ⁠USD after the kidnapping and killing of an employee of "Silver Wings" who was leaving the airport.

The sister of the victim's wife was behind the scheme.

More on that: https://www.isf.gov.lb/ar/article/9113857

Shortage of medicines:

Representatives of Mersaco and Fattal, which import more than 70% of the drugs in Lebanon, threatened the Minister of Health to completely stop supplying the market with all kinds of medicines, if he insists on the decision to allow emergency imports.

By: @‌‌‎HusseinBazzi0

Sky News: UNICEF warns of the collapse of the water supply network in Lebanon within a month.

Most villages around Lebanon are already out of service water, as there is no diesel to pump water to houses.

Hebrew Kan channel:

A delegation that includes Iranian opposition activists (MEK and Pahlawists) residing in the United States recently visited Israel and the Gaza envelope. They then met with Israeli officials and IDF officers.

📉 Unexplained decrease in the dollar exchange rate from 22,000 to 20,000 ⁠LL.

Do not sell your reserve money.

Intense traffic on Al-Jiyeh highway due to the long queues at a petrol station blocking the road a few hundred meters away from the place this image was taken (by me).

Supermarket Owners Syndicate:

The lack of fuel and electricity will negatively affect the safety of food and goods.

The Pfizer vaccine — the shot given to nearly all Israelis — is now only 39% effective against infection, while being only 41% effective against symptomatic COVID19, according to new statistics of the Health Ministry.

People vaccinated in January were said to have now only 16% protection against infection, while for those vaccinated in April, effectiveness is at 75%.

www.timesofisrael.com/isr…

Beirut: The families of the victims of the port explosion are gathering in front of the House of Representatives in Nejmeh Square, Beirut.

Shortage of fuel:

Banque du Liban has paid for three ships anchored off the Lebanese coast, one loaded with diesel and two loaded with gasoline and diesel.

Unloading operations begin on Saturday, however the quantities of diesel are only enough for two days. (LBCI)

Angry locals blocked the Sidon sea road in front of the new port of Sidon with waste containers after setting them on fire, in protest against electricity blackouts and the lack of diesel for private generators.

East Jerusalem: Abdu Al-Khatib a.k.a. Al-Tamimi was beaten and tortured with electricity to death at an Israeli detention center. He was arrested last Sunday for the ninth time, over a traffic law violation.

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NOW: The IDF fired a flare bomb in the atmosphere of "Khalat Ghasouneh" east of the town of Blida which led to the outbreak of a major fire in the Lebanese territories.

The fire extended to the occupied territories detonating several mines.

The Israeli National Security Institute in a research paper on the situation in Lebanon:

"Promoting the idea of ​​Hezbullah's control of Lebanon will increase Israel's scope of action and its legitimacy to attack Lebanon, especially in the case of a military conflict or war."

20 minutes ago, Israeli airforce was reported over northern Palestine and then southern Lebanon.

Protest in Sidon:

Limited scuffles happened between the protestors and the Lebanese army.

Initial report of a flare fired by the Israeli enemy over Odaysi village, southern Lebanon.

Shortage of fuel:

The Lebanese Forces, a civil war militia most notorious for massacres, sounded their annoyance that non-Keserwan locals are buying gasoline there, announcing that Sakr petrol stations will give them priority over the latter.