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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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Israel: A private plane used by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, commander of the "Libyan National Army" and his associates, is on its way from Dubai to Ben Gurion Airport in the occupied city of Lod.
Fouad Makhzoumi, head of the National Dialogue Party (NDP): "The dispute with Hezbullah is not limited to Saudi Arabia only, but most of the Lebanese are also at odds with Hezbullah and its political agenda that does not represent them."

In the 2018 election's vote count:
- Hezbullah: 343,220
- Makhzoumi's party: 15,773

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Hebrew media: IDF northern command begins a month-long "increased readiness" drill, during which numerous exercises will be conducted to simulate an "intense and prolonged battle," with both connoscript and reserve troops, the military says.
Israel: The engineering department at the Israeli war ministry began this morning to construct bomb shelters for residents in the town of Yuval, near the Lebanese border.

It marks the beginning of a plan to provide every necessitous home with private bomb shelters in 21 ⁠towns in northern Israel. 65 ⁠shelters will be built in Yuval in the coming weeks. (Hebrew media)
🚨 Saudi Arabia has started a financial blockade on Lebanon, banning the Lebanese diaspora from sending money to Lebanon through money exchange offices such as OMT, MoneyGram, and so on.

As of now, OMT has not circulated a memo to stop handing the money sent from the Gulf to their customers. There seems to be disruption in the process, according to customers, and delays in cash money transfer from the Gulf to Lebanon.
⋯ Officially:

DHL confirmed that it was forced to return the mail it received to be sent to Lebanon back to Saudi Arabia on Saturday," explaining that "this decision comes in implementation of Saudi instructions."
President of the Farmers Association: About 55% of our total exports to the Gulf will remain in Lebanon as a result of the diplomatic crisis, and consequently the supply will rise and prices will decrease.
During the past nine years, Lebanon exported goods and commodities worth 40,016,149,000 USD, of which 3,009,107,000 USD went to Saudi Arabia.

That's about 7,52% of the total of what Lebanon exports.

By: @‌‌‎alihmourad
The headquarters of the Emirati embassy in Lebanon will be offered for sale. (Sawt Beirut International)

Note: This is likely the old compound they abandoned and have built another. The latter was completed in the past two years.
The official slogan of Hezbullah's Martys' day is "أحياء فينا" which translates to "Alive Among Us"

A speech by Hezbullah's S-G is expected on 11-11 to commemorate the 11-11-1982 operation in Tyre.
After an American B-1 bomber passed through Israel on Tuesday, an American logistics ship arrived today at the port of Eilat to participate in a large joint exercise with the Israeli Navy. (Correction)

USA and Israel are ramping up joint exercises after CENTCOM's duty expansion.
Beirut Airport Chief: Until now, nothing has changed with regard to flights between Lebanon and the Gulf countries. We have not received any message from any airline, whether Arab or local, to halt flights (OTV).
The Lebanese Prime Minister: The Emir of the State of Qatar will send the Minister of Foreign Affairs to Beirut to discuss ways to address the Lebanese-Gulf crisis.

The PM also met his Kuwaiti counterpart.
Update: New arrest warrants were issued against 5 new people from the Lebanese Forces Party, against the background of the Tayouneh ambush events. twitter.com/LebUpdate/sta…
Yemen: Claims of "39 civilians" martyred in an Houthi attack on an Islamic center in Maarib

The number of 39 is unsupported, and this video (cf ⁠attached tweet) shows little damage and no victim.

As for the injured children, those are from an explosion in Taiz, away from Maarib's frontline.

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Al-Amana announced the end of the first phase of distributing Iranian diesel for the specified categories, and accordingly, it will stop receiving requests for the purchase or renewal, in preparation for the second phase of securing and distributing diesel for the winter season.
Israeli prime minister Bennet requested from his Australian counterpart to officially label Hezbullah's political branch as a terrorist organization.

He is expected to request the same from other countries.