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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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-- The Lebanese army raided the house of an exchange officer in Hadath and confiscated the dollar bills stash that he was hoarding to resell at higher prices later.

This comes in the effort to stop all those manipulating the Lebanese pound.
-- The COVID-19 situation is worsening as new clusters are popping due to neglect by the returnees and some families.

The recent cases in Tyre is a mother that infected her two children (4 and 7 years old), and a soldier that was infected in the last cluster but kept it secret.
-- Tripoli, Northern Lebanon. So much for quarantining during COVID-19 pandemic.
Lebanese Conflict Observer:
— "Israeli forces are firing flares over the Lebanese-Palestinian borders near Metula and Khiam."
-- Security forces just quarantined a 3 story building in Ras Al NabiA that hosts dozens of foreign workers, after a worker from the Bangladese nationality tested positive for COVID-19.
-- MOH confirms 11 new cases of COVID-19 after it tested 771 returnees who came back from Africa and Europe.
-- The IDF shot and badly injured a known to the area Syrian Shepard while grazing his sheep near the hills of Kafarshoba.

He was not sneaking into Israel, and he was not an alien to the area.

He's badly bleeding and is in a serious condition.
Forwarded from COVID-19 Up
🇱🇧 Lebanon to continue its gradual reopening process after the latest cluster was placed under control.

PM Diab: Diab: I know that everyone wants to return to normal life and that it is not easy to admit that a virus is controlling the world, but this fact has imposed a different reality on people's lives. @COVID19Up
-- NNA: A huge fire broke out inside an apartment in Zouk Mikael after a gas cylinder exploded in the kitchen; firefighters found the charred body of Gerges Abdo (born in 1960 from Akkar) and a woman suffering from shortness of breath due to smoke inhalation.

They are the parents of the Lebanese actress Jessy Abdo
-- Professor Steve Hanke: It looks like Lebanon has swallowed the IMF’s snake oil. After Lebanon gets its hands on IMF bailout bucks, it plans to float the Pound. Well, it won’t float on a sea of tranquility. No. The pound will sink like a stone.

The article he is talking about: SOURCE
-- US Department of Homeland Security seizes web domain for Lebanon-based EKT Katrangi electronics stores, which offered online shopping; the US sanctioned the firm in 2018 for allegedly supplying Syria's SSRC advanced weapons program.
Forwarded from The Qa’im Initiative
Murder investigation and manhunt launched after 19-year-old killed in #Blackburn shooting

May God shower her soul with mercy and give strength and patience to her family 💔

Al-Fatiha
^^ She is Lebanese - British
Forwarded from COVID-19 Up
🇱🇧 Lebanon recorded 20 new COVID-19 cases.

Two are Lebanese locals while the rest (18) are Bangladese who lived in the same apartment/building with a previous confirmed case (Bangladese). @COVID19Up
-- North Lebanon: Tripoli tonight, where only the mannequin is wearing a mask.