Lebanese News and Updates – Telegram
Lebanese News and Updates
75.5K subscribers
30.2K photos
8.27K videos
36 files
5.76K links
Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
Download Telegram
🔴 Graphic 18+

Yemen: According to the Ansarullah-affiliated supervisor of Maqbana District (Taiz Governorate), 18 were martyred and 8 were wounded as a result of Saudi-UAE airstrikes in the village of Al-Hakimah, including children.
French president Macron: Prince bin Salman and I called Lebanese Prime Minister Mikati where we made commitments to support reforms in Lebanon, and help get it out of its crisis and preserve its "sovereignty".
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🚨 🔴 Graphic 18+

Field execution of an injured, non-threatening Palestinian youth, by the Israeli police in the middle of a road in Jerusalem.

The youth was reported to have stabbed a settler earlier.

Note: He wouldn't have been shot dead if he was a Jew, according to the established Israeli "doctrine" aimed at Palestinians.
🤬1
Joint Saudi-French statement: An agreement to establish a joint mechanism for humanitarian assistance to alleviate the suffering of the Lebanese people was established.
An earthquake was felt by the residents of Sidon a while ago.
⋯ Update: The National Center for Geophysics denies that any earthquake occurred in Lebanon.
An Israeli plane landed today in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, after passing through Jordan.

This would mark the 2nd, at least, Israeli visit to Saudi Arabia in the past two months.
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
After decades of absence, the first Swiss Airlines flight from Zurich arrives at Beirut's international airport.
Israel: Yitzhak ‘Itzik’ Chen (47), a paratrooper in the First Lebanon War who had a parachuting accident in 1992 and suffers from a physical injury and PTSD, stabbed himself 20 ⁠times till death, today.

His sister Sigalit said that he was often screaming: “Shut the windows, Hezbullah is listening to us”. She laments the lack of support from the IDF: “The straw that broke the camel's back was when he received the campaign medal for the First Lebanon War in an envelope. The army cannot even face its wounded veterans and see how they are?”

www.jpost.com/breaking-ne…
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
⋯ His family: "We fought for years. We shouted. We talked to every minister and MK, begging them to help, but nothing. They ignored him, they refused his brain injury.
Hebrew media: "Mossad chief David Barnea flew to Washington tonight, and War Minister Benny Gantz will fly on Thursday. The two will try to persuade the United States to take military action against the Iranian nuclear facilities or bases."
A shop on Hadi Nasrallah highway was shot towards at night, after social media protest happened yesterday over the male strip dance show, the owners hosted in the opening ceremony.

The shop is a female spa salon.
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
⋯ The show happened near Hezbullah's martyr's square.
Yehusi Joshua: The representative of the IDF reveals that during Operation "Guardian of the Wall" in May 2021, more than 20 soldiers from minorities (Arabs in IDF) refused to join the battle.

Joshua adds that the number is much higher than announced, but the army is hiding it.
⋯ 7 IDF commanders, likely Arabs, have been expelled from the IDF because of that.

This raises the question about the credibility of only 20 refusing to serve, when 7 officers were expelled.

An average number would be in the 100+ soldiers refusing to serve.
According to a recent poll in Israel, the most pressing priority for more than 70% of the Israelis is to tackle the deteriorating living conditions and rampant crime in their society.

Results:
1- cost of living (39%)
2- violence & crime (34%)
3- Iran (12%)
4- COVID (6%)