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?”

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⋯ 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.

Ouzai, Beirut

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.

⋯ 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%)

Tripoli: Students and parents stormed the office of a secondary school principal in Tripoli, after the scandal of a teacher harassing female students.

India's military murders 15 villagers in Nagaland state, mistaking them for militants.

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r/Lebanon

📈 It would nowadays cost at least 1,300,000 ⁠LBP (~$54) per person to follow one month of this diet:

• Breakfast: 100g of labneh (yogurt)
• Lunch: tuna can (180g)
• Dinner: 100g of labneh

The above excludes oil, lemon, and other condiments.

The minimum wage is between 750,000 -1,200,000 LBP.

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The teacher was suspended. He is a close relative to Judge Bassam Al-Mawlawi, the current minister of interior.
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While Kaouk's anti-Hezbullah comedy work was simply protested against through an opinion article, it caused an uproar, however just this week he had his contract suspended and then expelled from Al-Jadeed for daring to prepare a sketch against the UAE!

No one voiced support.
#media_bias

Yemen: Ansarullah attacked the Saudi capital of aggression, Riyadh, in response to the continuous daily airstrikes on Yemen's capital Sanaa.

Yesterday, an airstrike on a residential building in Sanaa injured dozens of civilians.

In the video, KSA used at least 4 patriot AD against 1 missile.

⋯ Each patriot AD interceptor costs between 1-6 million dollars.

Using at least 4 against 1 fixed-trajectory ballistic missile is an overkill, however KSA can afford that to avoid any impact.