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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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Gaza: In the past hour, the Palestinian resistance shot towards an Israeli MoD employee in the fence area, injuring him.

IDF retaliated against empty border observation points.
President Aoun signed a decree inviting the electoral bodies to elect members of Parliament on May 15 for residents, on May 12 for employees participating in the electoral process, and on May 6 and 8 for diaspora.
Lebanon recorded 3,150 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours.

This is the first time in months the number reaches 3,000.
Journalist Radwan Mortada: The Customs Directorate seized a large batch of Captagon hidden in fruit shipments at the port of Beirut destined to Kuwait then Saudi Arabia.
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⋯ The drugs were hidden inside oranges (video).

This is similar to a bust in UAE where they attempted to smuggle them inside Lemons (following tweet).
Recent captagon bust in UAE.
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Interior Minister from Beirut Port: "Our work has been going on for more than two months, and we would like to convey a message to the Arab world about our seriousness and our work to prevent evil from our Arab brothers."
Lebanon: A Syrian female and her lover were arrested by Lebanese security forces for poisoning the husband's coffee and killing him.

They were arrested after being seen together, shortly after the burial of the husband. Investigations continue.
Israeli Haredi Rabbi Chaim Walder, a children books author, is accused of sexually abusing and raping ultra-Orthodox minors.

He commuted suicide two days ago.

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A close-up to one of the containers targeted by Israel in Syria's Lattikia port.

Photo by @‌‌‎SARASALLOUM963 showing baby formula. The brand is Lactomil, Iranian made, in use in Lebanon and Syria.
The former mayor of Arsal, Ali Al-Hujairi, was released this week from prison.

Ali, who is supported politically by Saad Al-Hariri and Samir Gaegae, helped ISIS and Al-Qaeda in 2014 enter Arsal and kidnap dozens of Lebanese soldiers. All have been executed.
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Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi told Al-Rai: The shipment of captagon that was seized in Dubai few days ago, originated from Lebanon. twitter.com/LebUpdate/sta…