⋯ He admitted that he had held a meeting between the officers of discipline in Ain El-Remmaneh, and called the militants, at the request of the head of the center, to a meeting in the HQ the night before the demonstration to confirm their readiness

⋯ Elias continues: “At seven in the morning, I arrived at the center, where there were 15 people. Ten minutes after my arrival, I received a call from Simon where he told me that he was present with about 40 militants at the Saydet Lourdes junction."

⋯ He continues: "So I went to him, where he was accompanied by a number of young men, who I don't know neither ever met. They are not from this area."

He asked me if there were any junctions after the OMT store, and I replied that there were only two junctions."

⋯ Continues: "These two junctions lead to the same point where Simon Musallam and his snipers/militants were concentrated.

At 1:30, I received a call from Simon Moslem asking me to secure two weapons and come."

⋯ George Toma's testimony:

“I have belonged to the Lebanese Forces since I was 14 years old, and I have participated in many training camps, and I am among the forces in Ain El-Remmaneh. I'm a military official."

⋯ 🚨 Toma: "There are groups from Maarab who will be present behind the army. And that the forces had agreed with the army that every person who would bypass them would be dealt (killed) with by Maarab groups."

⋯ Continues: "And the person in charge of the Maarab groups is Simon Musallam, who is close to Dr. Samir Geagea. We were informed that Moslem asked everyone to stay ready and to come at 6 in the morning the next day."

⋯ Continues: "I went to my car, got my rifle, and fired several shots at the opposite wall but then I the saw members of the army in the street, so I hurried and put the weapon back in the car. I approached Elias and asked him where are the Maarab groups. He did not answer."

⋯ Testimony of Rodrigue Touma:

"I saw Rodney Aswad, Najib Hatem, and Shukri Bou Saab in possession of military weapons, along with the Mukhtar of Ain al-Remmaneh, Eli Caesar, and about thirty peoplemasked and wearing black clothes, and the majority of them had military weapons."

⋯ As for the testimony of an arrested Amal Movement member Mohamamd Hussein:

He told the interrogators that he was responsible for a group of about twenty people affiliated with the Amal movement, and was charged with providing protection for the movement's demonstrations.

⋯ The Two Syrians arrested are innocent and were interrogated as witnesseses only.

Jamil Al-Sayed, that was sanctioned yesterday for allegedly transferring 120 million USD outside Lebanon for investment, challenges the USA State Department and Treasury to provide to the public any proof or transaction waybill.

He asks for a visa to challenge them in US courts

President Aoun formally asked the Russian ambassador to inform his country of Lebanon's desire to obtain satellite images of the day of the explosion that occurred at the port of Beirut.

This comes after Russian President Putin offered his help in the case.

President Aoun asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs to make the necessary contacts with the American Embassy in Beirut and the Lebanese Embassy in Washington, to learn about the circumstances that prompted the US Treasury to impose sanctions on several Lebanese figures.

The IDF fired several flares over the Lebanese border near Metula, after alleged suspicious movement was detected in the area.

🚨 Report: As a punishment for Minister Kordahi's condemnation of the Yemen war in an old interview, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) bans all imports from Lebanon.

KSA is demanding the resignation of the Lebanese minister George Kordahi, threatening to cut all diplomatic ties.

A Saudi source to MTV: The permanent expulsion of the Lebanese ambassador from the Kingdom will take place soon, and escalation is expected during the next 48 hours if no formal apology and resignation takes place.

A Lebanese was arrested by the IDF after crossing into occupied Palestine.

Note on the current crisis:

Lebanese diaspora in the Gulf are highly educated engineers, doctors, and specialists. They are there working and earning every dollar with their hard work.

Using them as hostages for politics only shows how KSA treats others. KSA accepting them should not be a choke for us.

UAE, Qatar, and KSA already expelled hundreds of Lebanese Shia families after 2006. They had no reason & the families were given none.

A high-ranking Emirati source told Lebanon News: The UAE will summon its Chargé d'Affairs because it does not have a special ambassador in Lebanon, and will request the departure of the Lebanese ambassador in the coming hours.