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🚨 The Lebanese Army:

"Videos have spread on social media showing the army firing at demonstrators.

It is important for the army leadership to clarify that the shooter is now subjected to investigation under the supervision of the competent judiciary."
The army only released a statement after this went public...
Head of the Generators Owners Association, Abdo Saadeh: Total darkness has become possible due to our inability to buy diesel in USD.

It is noteworthy that a number of generator owners refused to buy Iranian diesel in LBP, as Hezbullah stipulated that they should be able to monitor usage and the generators should lower the fees to people, as Iranian diesel is about 30% cheaper.
A demonstration by opposition groups and parties, started from the Palace of Justice towards Sodeco, the Ring Bridge and the Association of Banks, to finally reach Martyrs Square.
Some locals in Ain al-Rummaneh in Beirut announce that they are in the process of filing a judicial complaint against SG of Hezbollah personally and everyone who was shooting towards that area.

Note: None in that area was injured or killed by the shooting, it's vise versa.
The "National News Agency" reported that a family dispute over an old disagreements developed between members of the Al-Sayed family and others from the Al-Tartousi family, in the town of Wadi Al-Jamous - Akkar, which led to an exchange of heavy fire and rockets.
Although today's protest was supposed to be large, involving all October 17 groups, to commemorate the nation wide 2019 demonstrations, only few dozens participated.

Photo: Lighting the torch of the "October 17 Revolution" in Beirut
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The father of the victim from Al-Tayouneh ambush, Hassan Meshik, tells the Christian delegation from Deir Al-Ahmar who visited him to comfort:

"Like what S Musa Al Sadr said: We protect the people of the monastery, Shelifa, Al-Haddah, and our Christian brothers with our blood."
Journalist Ridwan Mortada: What is concrete in the preliminary investigation is that Meshik was the first to fall before there was any shooting. He was hit by a single bullet in the face (below his eye), but there was no gunfire, which the investigators considered a sniper attack
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Beautiful Sanaa, Yemen celebrating the eve of the anniversary of the birth of Prophet Muhammad.

Yemen is the only nation that celebrates the event at this scale.
The Lebanese army defused an IED placed under the car of a local in the town of At-Tufail - Beqaa. It was an anti-personnel mine, intended for remote detonation.

The town is facing problems between locals and captagon manufacturers.
The price of most commodities in Lebanon rose by 13 times.

Purchasing power and the minimum wage collapsed disastrously, reaching the equivalent of $32, while in 2019 it was $450 and the average salary $800.
One of the shooters in Thursday's sniper attack, Antonios Tawk, was part of the Lebanese Forces party scouts.

Which confirms an old suspicion that the new scout force is a curtain to the Lebanese Forces' training of new militiamen similar to the civil war era approach.

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Lebanese army intelligence arrested the Lebanese Forces activist Salim Al-Helou from his home, in Ain Al-Rummaneh Sannine neighborhood.

The same building in which George Touma, arrested days earlier, lives in.