-- Lebanon's international airport in 1937.

-- An attempted prison break happened in Zahle prison where the prisoners dug a 3 m deep and 7 m long tunnel into a neighboring empty field.

-- Mahdi Houri, 19 years old, who was a volunteer in the health department since February 21 assisting in COVID-19 related activities in the airport, got badly injured yesterday while returning home in a motorcycle accident.

-- Here’s how the Lebanon government’s draft rescue plan sees the official rate for the pound devalued over the next four years:

-2600 by next year
-2800 by 2022
-2900 by 2023
-3000 by 2024

-- According to a local news channel, Lebanese PM informed the UNIFEL commander in Lebanon that Lebanon will not allow Israelis to launch strikes on Syria using the Lebanese airspace.


"The government does not accept Israeli violations to be just a number counted by the United Nations, it is not sufficient to put an end to the Israeli violations, and everyone should be aware that we will no longer bow to these violations as if they are normal."

-- At least 17 Coronavirus cases have been discovered in the small mountain town of Bcharre in Lebanon over the past few days.

Lebanese Army were patrolling the streets today in order to ensure people conform to social distancing/lockdown.

🇺🇸🇱🇧 US citizens in Lebanon decline repatriation offer, saying it's 'safer' in Beirut. @COVID19Up SOURCE

-- Lebanon's security forces say they have made their largest cannabis seizure in history last month, unearthing 25 tonnes of the drug intended for Africa.