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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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Vehicles are going around Beirut and Sidon, calling for wide-spread demonstrations tomorrow to protest the economic conditions.
Lebanese News and Updates
🚨 Al-Jadeed: The Dentist Syndicate elections were cancelled due to several clashes and inconsistencies. Ballot boxes were thrown around and the counting machines jammed.
According to a statement by the Dentist Association of Hezbullah,

• The results of the Kataeb Party candidate were embarrassing for the party, not figuring even in the top ten.

• What was issued by Mr. Sami Gemayel [that armed militants trashed the process] is slander.
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About 1,000 tons of grain from the silos damaged in the Beirut Port explosion have been processed. They've been converted into industrial firewood and will be distributed in cooperation with the army to families living in the mountainous areas. (Minister of Environment)
Minister of Health Firas Al-Abiad:

"Medicines are still subsidized, we only reduced the subsidy ratio slightly. But due to the exchange rate, prices increased sharply. If funds are available again, we will restore the full subsidy."
Lebanese News and Updates
Vehicles are going around Beirut and Sidon, calling for wide-spread demonstrations tomorrow to protest the economic conditions.
The roads expected to be blocked:

- Corniche Al Mazraa
- Barbir intersection
- Sports City
- Cola Bridge
- Airport Road
- Salim Salam
- UNESCO
- Aisha Bakkar Highway
- Verdun
- Spurs - Ministry of the Interior
- Hamra Kantari
- Ain Al-Marisa
- Al-Manara
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President Aoun travelled this morning to Qatar at the invitation of its Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani to participate in the opening of the Arab Football Cup, and to discuss and strengthen bilateral relations between the two brotherly countries.
⋯ Sidon: Forcing shut exchange offices.
Lebanese News and Updates
President Aoun travelled this morning to Qatar at the invitation of its Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani to participate in the opening of the Arab Football Cup, and to discuss and strengthen bilateral relations between the two brotherly countries.
President Aoun, in an interview with the Qatari newspaper, Al-Raya: The visit to Qatar is an expression of the depth of friendship and the strength of the relationship between the two countries.

Aoun: I will call on Prince Tamim to direct investment in Lebanon.
Summary of today's protests:

1- Few (less than 5) men and youth block a road

2- Security forces actually block the road few meters away from the protestors

3- People can't move around and lose one day worth of work or errands because security forces decided to block roads!?
Lebanese News and Updates
⋯ Sidon: Forcing shut exchange offices.
Protesters poured car oil on the ground at the intersection of the Sports City, in an attempt to cause car accidents.
IDF spox is claiming that a recent concrete sinkhole in a road in Gaza is proof of underground Hamas infrastructure.

Then as an observer, I wonder if this sinkhole in Tel-Aviv is also underground secret infrastructure!? Or that of Jerusalem early this year!? twitter.com/AvichayAdraee…
Lebanon's @‌‌‎LibanPost halted the sale of postage stamps in preparation of a massive price hike in fees on mail.

There was no official announcement of the matter.
IDF scandal: The head of the Technology and Logistics Division, Major General Michel Janko, announced the dismissal of Lt. Col. Dan Sharoni, who secretly photographed dozens of female soldiers who served under him at the IDF Driving School.

#metoo twitter.com/LebUpdate/sta…