⋯ Nelson highlighted the close U.S. relationship with the Lebanese Banking Association, and its commitment to combating corruption, money laundering and terrorism financing. Nelson stressed the commitment of the United States and the American Treasury to support the Lebanese people and continue to confront Hezbullah and its ability to exploit the Lebanese and global financial system.

He called on the Lebanese banks and government institutions to participate in the change by tackling corruption and preventing Hezbullah from gaining access to the Lebanese financial system.

⋯ For its part, the Lebanese Banking Association affirmed that it will always stand firmly in the face of money laundering and terrorism financing by complying with international standards, and it opens its doors to the international community in combating all types of illegal financing.

Instead of discussing with banks how they went bankrupt, how they were part of one the biggest Ponzi schemes, the USA opted to reiterate that it still supports lebanese banks and considers them as partners to the USA in fighting Hezbullah.

"Forgive me father, I need to rest..."

This is what the 23-year-old young man wrote before his suicide a while ago in Abbassiya, south Lebanon.

Hezbullah didn't issue a statement or leak any information about its refusal to meet Hamas's Khaled Masha'al.

All news or journalist tweets are from their wide imagination. Hezbullah treats Hamas as one entity.

وَٱعْتَصِمُواْ بِحَبْلِ ٱللَّهِ جَمِيعًا وَلَا تَفَرَّقُواْ

The Palestinian detainee, Hesham Abu Hawwash is facing an imminent risk of death after 124 consecutive days of hunger strike in the Israeli prisons!

Abu Hawwash is protesting against his administrative detention (no charge or trial) for months!

#FreeThemAll

🚨 Captagon: Lebanese interior minister Al-Mawlawi informed his Saudi counterpart that the smuggling operations of amphetamine Captagon (fenethylline) from Lebanon to Saudi Arabia are being orchestrated by Saudi personnel.

Saudi phone numbers and names have been handed to Saudi security forces.

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After visiting Burj Al-Shamali refugee camp, the head of Hamas's foreign office Khaled Mashal met in Beirut the head of PIJ Ziad Al-Nakhalah.

Khaled: "Unity between the Palestinian resistance factions is the first building block for liberation".

A Lebanese army transportation bus crashed into a sweets shop in Chtoura, Dahr Al-Baydar.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrives in Beirut today for a four-day official visit, during which he will meet with the three presidents and a number of officials. He will also visit the border area in the south to inspect the UNIFIL forces operating there.

Don't have time to geo-locate but this "premature" detonation was actually an RPG rocket by a Hezbullah fighter against the SVIED before it reached their positions.

HTS would deploy a smokescreen on the frontline and send SVIEDs, giving Hezbullah barely few minutes to counter twitter.com/HKaaman/statu…

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One of two thieves have been arrested, with 70+ kg of aluminum bars.

Their heist was worth only 190$.

War criminal and current Israeli MoD Benny Gantz has loosened open fire regulations for Israeli forces, and can now open fire on stone throwers even after the act, as they are running away.

This put thousands of Palestinians on death sentence.

Economy Minister Amin Salam told Sawt al-Nas:

"The manipulation of the exchange rate is taking place through online mobile platforms, most of which are based in Turkey."

▶️122-year-old Iranian woman appears to be oldest person in world

Born a century and two decades ago in Torbat-e-Jam, northeastern Iran, Fatemeh Norouzi Karizi is apparently the oldest living person in the world and said she is the oldest to receive the coronavirus vaccine.

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🦠 In the past couple of days, the US ambassador Dorothy Shea led a propaganda campaign through several Lebanese TV channels regarding a batch of COVID-19 vaccine sent as aid.

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⋯ The USA, under the slogan "From our labs to your jabs" to build trust, sent Lebanon Johnson and Johnson's (J&J) vaccines.

These vaccines were granted emergency use authorization by the FDA, but were advised against by the CDC. The USA knows the health risk, so it decided to donate its purchase to the 3rd World.