Hebrew media: Haftar and his son are seeking military & diplomatic aid from Israel, and in exchange promised diplomatic ties if they win in December's elections.

Haftar is assisted by PR firms and advisers from France , UAE, and Israelis.

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Lebanon's women's basketball team beat Iran 66-64 at the opening of the "B" Asian Championship.

Hezbullah condemns in the strongest terms the treacherous attack that targeted the home of the Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, and congratulates him on his safety and the safety of those with him, and calls for a thorough and decisive investigation.

Egypt: In a meeting that took place between the Israeli and Egyptian armed forces, the IDF gave permission to the Egyptian side to deploy more Egyptian troops in Sinai.

Though Sinai is Egyptian land, Egypt needs Israel's permission to operate there.

After buying tens of thousands of precision munitions from the USA, Israel is aiming to buy a larger stock in preparation for a multi-front war with Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, and Iran.

That aside, USA stores thousands of its own PGMs in Israel, as an emergency stock for the IDF.

Lebanon: Dynamite bombs were thrown in Tariq al-Jadida in protest against Economy Minister Amin Salam's tour of private generator owners.

Assistant Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ambassador Hossam Zaki, after his meeting with President Aoun:

"I came to see if there is a possibility to converge views, because the Lebanese interest and the Gulf interest are our goal and our path."

The American mediator in the indirect talks on the demarcation of the maritime border between Lebanon and the ‘Israeli’-occupied Palestinian territory said that if no agreement is reached in the coming months, he will end his participation in the talks.

🚨 Palestine (West Bank): The Israeli military has been conducting broad surveillance on Palestinians for the past 2 ⁠years with facial recognition apps on Israeli soldiers' smartphones and on a growing CCTV.

The technology, coined Blue Wolf, “captures photos of Palestinians' faces and matches them to a database so extensive that one former soldier described it as the army's secret 'Facebook for Palestinians'.” The phone app “flashes in different colors to alert soldiers if a person is to be detained, arrested or left alone”.

To build the database, “soldiers competed last year in photographing Palestinians, including children and the elderly, with prizes for the most pictures collected by each unit”. Inside Israel, such technology was rebuffed by the agency in charge of protecting privacy, but “different standards” apply in the occupied territories.

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Lebanon: Major General Imad Othman, head of ISF, refuses to circulate the arrest warrant in absentia issued by Judge Tariq Al-Bitar against former Minister Ali Hassan Khalil and returns it to the public prosecution office.

As of today, the World Bank has not yet funded the aid card that was supposed to assist the Lebanese families during the economic crisis.

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Lebanese government sources: The Assistant Secretary-General of the Arab League requested the resignation of minister Kordahi as an approach to a solution with Saudi Arabia.