⋯ 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.

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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.

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”.

⋯ 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.

Syrian resistance forces attacked the American-occupied 55km-large zone "Al-Tanf" with 5 projectiles.

This comes as a retaliation for USA's support to Israeli airstrikes on Syria from Al-Tanf no-fly zone.

After Nasserite MP Ossam Saad became confident Hezbullah will not assist him with votes in the upcoming elections in his disrict Sidon, similar to 2018, Saad met again with the Future Movement (Hariri's party) to discuss some sort of understanding/agreement with the latter. twitter.com/LbElection/st…

"City Blue" trash collecting company employees are on strike, demanding fair pay and benefits, which resulted in waste gathering on roads near collection zones around Beirut's southern suburbs.