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.

The Israeli enemy army to begin a maneuver that simulates the advance against and then the occupation of the Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil with armored vehicles to test the pre-established plans.

IDF failed to capture the small town in 2006, despite capturing all high ground.

Central bank governor Riad Salameh, after meeting with the Banking Committee, has decided to cancel the exchange platform as of next week, and accordingly the Banque du Liban will stop selling dollars to merchants and companies.

In response, the Ministry of Finance was reported to be surprised by the decision of the governor to halt the platform (sayrafa) at this particular time, which may cause a sharp rise in the dollar exchange rate.

Fadi Abu Shakra: Liberating the import price of gasoline means putting pressure on the dollar in the parallel market, which will greatly burden the people.

More demand for USD to buy fuel = higher exchange rate = more expensive fuel & goods.