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The Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc: "We stress the complete rejection of lifting subsidies on life-saving medicines, and we call for a reconsideration in this matter."
The Minister of Health, Firas Abiad, defended the lifting of subsidies for incurable and chronic diseases, saying: "It was necessary due to the lack of funds at the treasury."

However he stressed that these medicines are available for free at the UN-sponsored clinics (list here).
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Update on the Tayyouneh ambush: Judge Sawan released 8, including the one responsible for luring protesters to Ain Al-Remmaneh, 4 who had previously confessed to preparing for the ambush, and an armed forces personnel who left his service center and joined…
The families of the victims of the Tayouneh ambush filed a lawsuit against Judge Fadi Sawan, who released 6 of the detainees who were proven to have participated in the shooting that left 6 dead and more than 60 injured.
⋯ The terrorist Shiekh released is connected to two attacks in Dahyeh that killed dozens and the twin suicide attack on the Iranian embassy, alongside a couple other attacks.
The Lebanese Embassy in South Africa pointed out that "a shipment containing 32,825 doses of anesthetics out of 189,356 units of medicine, will arrive in Lebanon today via air freight from Brussels."

The Lebanese diaspora donated medicine enough for thousands of operations.
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Lebanese army helicopters are flying over Beirut carrying a Lebanese flag in celebration of Lebanon's independence day.

It's unclear if they will fly over south Lebanon, as they are banned and need UNIFIL approval after informing Israel.
Graduation ceremony and the distribution of certificates to soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Brigade who successfully attended a French training course in the field of "combat techniques".
@‌‌‎The961 is a pathetic English-speaking Lebanese website that promoted a secterian article about "Muta'h Marriage" based on a fake Hezbullah document posted by the Lebanese journalist Maria Maalouf, an outlaw who is in contact with Israel.

Integrity these days is non-existent
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In a phone call between the Turkish and Israeli presidents, after releasing two Israeli spies from Turkey, Erdogan stated that he "takes the relationship with Israel with great importance".
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called Turkish President Erdogan and thanked him for his personal involvement in the return of Israeli couple to Israel.
The number of diaspora registered to vote in the 2022 parliamentary elections reaches 196,327 just 48 hours before registration stops.

The number is bigger than that of 2018 by 2 folds.
So is this the new way to ban Twitter accounts? When we don't do anything illegal or against Twitter rules, we get DMCA notices? For what exactly!?

If this accounts is banned, I won't be back (or use the backup).
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I was reported by the clowns at @‌‌‎The961.
Hebrew media: For the second time this past few months, a diplomatic-security delegation from Israeli lands reached the capital of Saudi Arabia.
Agence France-Presse quoted the Spanish authorities as saying that a group of 39 Lebanese, who were traveling between Egypt and Latin America, took advantage of the landing of their plane in Barcelona to seek political asylum in Spain.
💰 The amount of remittances in foreign currencies sent by expatriates to their families in Lebanon is estimated at a value ranging between 7 and 8 billion dollars annually.

Add to that, about 3 - 4 billion dollars annually with travellers to Lebanon, which brings the total value of the sum entering Lebanon annually to 11 - 12 billion dollars.

About 220,000 families benefit from these remittances, which is about a quarter of Lebanon's population.