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USA-funded MP Michel Moawad is handing out hundreds of purchase coupons in Tripoli, North Lebanon.

These coupons (at the face value of $12.06) are to gather voter support in preparation for the upcoming parliamentary elections, for a list representing the civil society in the second northern district (Tripoli, Minieh, Denniyeh).
Lebanese Forces party MP Pierre Abou Assi arrived at a recent parliamentary session with a handgun, which prompted several MPs to issue a statement denouncing this.
The average end-of-service pension for insured workers decreased from about $80,000 to about $6,000.

A decrease of 1,233%.

By: @‌‌‎JawadAdra
The head of the US delegation to the indirect negotiations to demarcate the border between Lebanon and Israel, Amos Holstein, arrived in Beirut this afternoon at the head of a delegation.

Amos is an Israeli, who served in the IDF. A clear breach of neutrality.
The price of gasoline and diesel rose sharply overnight to:

- Gasoline 20L 98 octane: 312,700 LBP
- Gasoline 20L 95 octane: 302,700 LBP
- Diesel 20L: 270,700 LBP
- Cooking gas 10 kg: 229,600 LBP
Brax: The fuel subsidy has finally ended, and the new prices were set on the basis of the black market dollar exchange rate of 20,000 LBP (Voice of Lebanon)
President Aoun received the new American-Israeli mediator in the negotiation process for the demarcation of the southern maritime border, Ambassador Amos Hochstein, and presented with him the future of the negotiation process.
⋯ Hochstein was born and raised in Israel to American parents and served in the Israel Defense Forces from 1992 to 1995. He served during the Israeli occupation of Lebanon and the 1993 war. He intended to stay in Israel after college.

This is not his first visit to Lebanon.
General road-blocks are expected by protestors around Lebanon, after calls for protests in wake of the increase in fuel prices and exchange rate.
Israel to hold a national war drill in the end of October focusing on the home front, emergency response to Hezbullah & Hamas rocket fire and riots by 1948 Palestinians.
The price difference for 20L of diesel between Al-Amana's (Hezbullah) and the importing companies is now 100,000 ⁠LBP or about 5,000,000 ⁠LBP per ton.

That's a 45% difference. Al-Amana is likely to update the prices soon.

t.me/LebUpdate/21229
Maritime border negotiations:

The American-Israeli IDF soldier Amos Hochstein also met the Lebanese prime minister Najib Mikati and parliament speaker Nabih Berri.
The Secretary-General of Hezbullah, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, to speak at 7:30 pm on Friday 22-10-2021 at the Prophet's Birth Festival, which is being held in Ashura field, Hadath.
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A delegation of families of the victims of the port explosion, headed by Ibrahim Hoteit, visited the Minister of Justice and handed him a signed letter to refer it to the Supreme Judicial Council to remove judge Tarek Al-Bitar for politicizing the case.

Some families of victims annonce in a statement that Ibrahim Hoteit, and the two families Mawla and Atwi, “represent only themselves and have betrayed the other families by dissenting from them”.

The families of victims among the firefighter brigade described the move of those who rejected Al-Bitar as “treachery and dissent”.
🚨 Secret location at sea in Tabarja operated by ex-USA military personnel from the military training contactor company "GovSource".

According to a Lebanese journalist, the building is allegedly operated/frequented by the Lebanese Forces party. Something that can't be verified.
⋯ This company is also responsibile for training the Lebanese army and routinely checking its readiness and capabilities.
Maritime border negotiations:

The Israeli soldier, supposedly the neutral American mediator between Lebanon and Israel, also met several Lebanese ministers including the minister of energy.