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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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The Lebanese Army: Distribution of baby formula and water for children , from few pallets, as a gift from the American authorities through the Lebanese Army to the Islamic Orphanage Association (Sunni) and Mar Mansour (Christian).
The Syrian Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources informed his Lebanese counterpart that Syria will fix the defects in the Arab Gas pipeline, which extends 36 km between the Dabousiyah border point and the Deir Ammar plant in Lebanon, free of charge.
Al-Brax: Gasoline queues disappeared because Banque du Liban gave credits to all companies to purchase fuel.

The stockpile is sufficient for 10-12 days.
For the second time this month, USA Treasury issues new economic sanctions against Hezbullah's assets and businesses. Details to follow below:
US sanctions targeted citizens from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Palestinians linked to the Hezbullah, according to the US Treasury.

US State Department: We have taken coordinated measures against a large financial network of Hezbullah that has a base in the Gulf.
In a message to the settlers of Kiryat Shmona by the IDF:

Between 5:00 am Thursday till 11:00 am Friday, the sounds of explosions will be heard in the sky of Kiryat Shmona, Galilee, and the Golan, due to planned engineering work.

Sounds will be heard in Lebanon
The manager of one of the branches of the "Lebanese Credit Bank" embezzled millions of dollars from depositors' accounts and escaped.
A thought to be discussed:

2018 Expatriate Election Results:
- Lebanese Forces: 8,568 votes
- FPM (Aoun) 8206 votes
- Amal Movement: 4731
- Hezbullah: 4273
- Future Movement: 3210
- PSP(Joumblat)v 2226

This excludes 2,600+ lost votes during delivery, and so.

Back in 2018 when I was in working in the voting committees for the Lebanese interior ministry, two full envelopes of votes from the USA for Hezbullah and "Al-Ahbash" party were discarded because the system didn't include those two poll stations.

(Part.1)
Though Hezbullah got the majority of votes in Lebanon with a big margin, Hezbullah has the right to demand the abolition of voting by expatriates from abroad. The party cannot conduct any political activity in any country or invite its supporters to vote, they are unable to facilitate the voting process like other parties, and are unable to send delegations to rally the community.

A large part of the Shia community is afraid that if they register to vote, they will fall into trouble with the authorities.

(Part.2)
Expatriate voting is also unrepresentative, as no voting took place during the 2018 elections in Iran, where a seizable Lebanese community lives there.

Solution? What do you think the correct reasoning is here.

Note: However in light of all the mentioned above, Hezbullah didn't ask to abolish expatriate voting nor does it care about that. That was just food for thought.

(Part.3)
Palestine: The Israeli occupation delayed the passengers of a bus coming from Nablus to Al-Aqsa for hours despite harsh inspection and examination in the Al-Qattanin area.

And during that, they shot and killed a mother of 3, and left her to bleed and then stripped her naked.
This was all done to facilitate the daily Zionist storming of Al-Aqsa mosque, under the protection of Israeli police.
The dollar exchange rate increased to a range of 17,200-17,500 LBP/USD.
The beginning of the expanded meeting between the Prime Ministers of Lebanon and Jordan in the Grand Serail, with the participation of Lebanese and Jordanian ministerial delegations.
The Minister of Interior Bassam Mawlawi, contacted the Director General of the Internal Security Forces, Major General Imad Othman, regarding the escape of a number of detainees from the Niha police station, at dawn today, requesting to intensify the search for the fugitives.