Reports: News of armed clashes on the Lebanese-Syrian border between the Syrian security forces and Lebanese smugglers, where the Syrian authorities were able to thwart the smuggling of a captagon shipment. Several were arrested.
The toll of the occupation in 2021:
• 357 Palestinians were killed this year (257 in Gaza), according to the National Convention for the Families of Palestine’s Martyrs. (Among them, 286 were killed during the May 2021 war, including 70 children, 69 women and about 103 fighters).
• 8,000 Palestinians were detained in 2021, including 1,300 children. 227 detainees died in Israeli prisons (8 bodies are still confiscated). Hundreds died after release due to ill treatment in prison.
• 950 Palestinian properties were demolished, and 17,740 trees were chopped in 2021, according to Land Research Center. 15 new settlement outposts were constructed in 2021, 55 settlements were expanded, and 25 settlers-only roads were built. Some settlements got more media exposure, such as in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan in Jerusalem, and Beita - Mount Sabih (West Bank).
(Quds News Network) [1] [2] [3]
• 357 Palestinians were killed this year (257 in Gaza), according to the National Convention for the Families of Palestine’s Martyrs. (Among them, 286 were killed during the May 2021 war, including 70 children, 69 women and about 103 fighters).
• 8,000 Palestinians were detained in 2021, including 1,300 children. 227 detainees died in Israeli prisons (8 bodies are still confiscated). Hundreds died after release due to ill treatment in prison.
• 950 Palestinian properties were demolished, and 17,740 trees were chopped in 2021, according to Land Research Center. 15 new settlement outposts were constructed in 2021, 55 settlements were expanded, and 25 settlers-only roads were built. Some settlements got more media exposure, such as in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan in Jerusalem, and Beita - Mount Sabih (West Bank).
(Quds News Network) [1] [2] [3]
Al-Resala Association for Health transferred 4 Syrian refugees from to Al-Faqih Hospital during the night.
They unfortunately all died during sleep, due to suffocation from carbon dioxide.
They unfortunately all died during sleep, due to suffocation from carbon dioxide.
Lebanese News and Updates
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."
Update: According to Lebanese security forces investigations, the latest 3 big captagon busts that were hidden in fruits, were manufacturered and packaged in Denniyeh area, Tripoli.
Several Lebanese and Syrians were arrested.
Several Lebanese and Syrians were arrested.
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⋯ On 23-12-2021, Lebanon helped to thwart the smuggling of more than one million Captagon pills in Dubai port, coming from Beirut port inside a refrigerator containing boxes of real and plastic lemons stuffed with Captagon pills.
The Lebanese customs opened an investigation to find out that the seized shipment left about a month ago Beirut for Egypt, where it stayed for 15 days before sailing to the port of Dubai.
The customs arrested the Lebanese freight contractor, Wael Mosbah Obeid, born in 1990 from Denniyeh.
The Lebanese customs opened an investigation to find out that the seized shipment left about a month ago Beirut for Egypt, where it stayed for 15 days before sailing to the port of Dubai.
The customs arrested the Lebanese freight contractor, Wael Mosbah Obeid, born in 1990 from Denniyeh.
⋯ The customs stated that they were clearing the transactions of a second shipment of lemons still in Beirut port to be exported to Kuwait, in addition to another shipment still at sea where the judiciary issued a decision to return it to Beirut port.
After examining the shipment, it was found that it contained 9 million Captagon pills hidden in the same way. It was also found that the two seized shipments in Dubai and Beirut ports were shipped for the benefit of two companies based in Tripoli, Lebanon.
After examining the shipment, it was found that it contained 9 million Captagon pills hidden in the same way. It was also found that the two seized shipments in Dubai and Beirut ports were shipped for the benefit of two companies based in Tripoli, Lebanon.
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Excerpts of Gebran Bassil's speech today:
“We stood against 2 establishments, an external one with [Donald Trump's] Deal of the Century, the settling of [Syrian] refugees in Lebanon and the threat of ISIS, and an internal establishment, that included warlords, corruption lords with projects of economical and political robbery of our rights. Our political system is stopped because it's built on the Taif Agreement, which made Lebanon a puppet of the outside.” (...)
“On 6 February 2006, we made an understanding with Hezbullah in Mar Mikhael [Beirut], we chose that place after the 5 February attack on Ashrafieh, as a response to the international community's, and their Lebanese allies, attempt to isolate Hezbullah.”
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“We stood against 2 establishments, an external one with [Donald Trump's] Deal of the Century, the settling of [Syrian] refugees in Lebanon and the threat of ISIS, and an internal establishment, that included warlords, corruption lords with projects of economical and political robbery of our rights. Our political system is stopped because it's built on the Taif Agreement, which made Lebanon a puppet of the outside.” (...)
“On 6 February 2006, we made an understanding with Hezbullah in Mar Mikhael [Beirut], we chose that place after the 5 February attack on Ashrafieh, as a response to the international community's, and their Lebanese allies, attempt to isolate Hezbullah.”
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⋯ Gebran Bassil: “Simply, we chose back then an understanding over sectarian strife, and we achieved a national agremeent, not a sectarian one. (...) The [Lebanese resistance] weapons are only to defend Lebanon. In practice, we give our support to the resistance against ISIS and Israel, in political support, not in money nor in arms nor in souls, and we got from them political support to preserve rights in agreement and national balance.”
“The attempts to isolate Hezbullah have not stopped, and the last was on 17 October 2019, in order to weaken us and remove the Christian cover to Hezbullah. When they failed, they put us under sanctions because we refused to stop the understanding. Attempts of isolation are still ongoing, and the Shiite unity is very important to face them and we should keep it, but it is not enough, because we are losing everything else including the state, to keep the unity.”
“The attempts to isolate Hezbullah have not stopped, and the last was on 17 October 2019, in order to weaken us and remove the Christian cover to Hezbullah. When they failed, they put us under sanctions because we refused to stop the understanding. Attempts of isolation are still ongoing, and the Shiite unity is very important to face them and we should keep it, but it is not enough, because we are losing everything else including the state, to keep the unity.”
⋯ Gebran Bassil: “We stood by Mar Mikhael, but where is the translation of this understanding? In democratic agreement, in state building?”
“I tell Sayyed Hassan [Nasrallah], who has a special place in my heart and mind, that we need to develop the understanding further, and we have tried many times to do so. (...) Our goal is state building, theirs is resistance and defense, and we said we can have both, if the resistance stays under and with the state. We can't lose the state and keep the resistance, but we can win both. Lebanon cannot afford to be stateless.”
“And we are put in situations we can't explain, only for one person: [Nabih] Berri. It is not okay for us to be put always between 2 choices, state or strife, stability or rooting out corruption. We made an understanding with Hezbullah, not with Amal. When we see them getting into our relationship and understanding, it is our right to start doubting that the understanding should stay as it is. We ask for a new and a better understanding that could help us and them.”
“I tell Sayyed Hassan [Nasrallah], who has a special place in my heart and mind, that we need to develop the understanding further, and we have tried many times to do so. (...) Our goal is state building, theirs is resistance and defense, and we said we can have both, if the resistance stays under and with the state. We can't lose the state and keep the resistance, but we can win both. Lebanon cannot afford to be stateless.”
“And we are put in situations we can't explain, only for one person: [Nabih] Berri. It is not okay for us to be put always between 2 choices, state or strife, stability or rooting out corruption. We made an understanding with Hezbullah, not with Amal. When we see them getting into our relationship and understanding, it is our right to start doubting that the understanding should stay as it is. We ask for a new and a better understanding that could help us and them.”
⋯ Gebran Bassil: “We know that stopping the understanding with Hezbullah would hurt our legitimacy and in our elections. But If we have to choose between legitimacy and polls, we choose legitimacy. (...) Once again, we stand with Mar Mikhael and not with the Tayyouneh ambush [i.e. Samir Geagea].”
“We do not accept being belittled, dragged, and we rather be alone than humiliated. We feel an existential threat, and we should all work together and to defend Lebanon. Lebanon cannot be divided, no matter how, not with federalism, and this is opposite with the national identity of Lebanon.”
Note: Gebran Bassil is the head of the biggest Christian party, the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM).
“We do not accept being belittled, dragged, and we rather be alone than humiliated. We feel an existential threat, and we should all work together and to defend Lebanon. Lebanon cannot be divided, no matter how, not with federalism, and this is opposite with the national identity of Lebanon.”
Note: Gebran Bassil is the head of the biggest Christian party, the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM).
Tyre: The highway was cut off in the city of Tyre at the southern sea corniche with burning tires in protest against the deteriorating living conditions and the rise in the dollar exchange rate.
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On this night at dawn two years ago, the USA murdered at Israeli command the soft-hearted head of IRGC's Quds Force Qassem Soleimani and the head of the Iraqi PMF Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis along with their 8 companions in Baghdad.
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Yemen's Ansarullah seized a UAE ship carrying thousands of tons of weapons in Yemeni waters.
Saudi Arabia claimed the cargo ship, named “Rwabee”, was transporting medical supplies for a field hospital, from the island of Socotra to the port of Jizan.
Saudi Arabia claimed the cargo ship, named “Rwabee”, was transporting medical supplies for a field hospital, from the island of Socotra to the port of Jizan.
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