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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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Last night, an IAF IDF helicopter crashed into the sea, killing Lt. Col. Erez Shahanei, deputy commander of Ramet David airbase and Capt. Hen Fogel.
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Israel: Mossad affiliated plane is currently leaving Israel heading to Turkey, in the second such flight since October 2021.

Turkey continues its cooperation with Mossad and Israel, despite hosting the political leadership of Hamas.
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Last night, an IAF IDF helicopter crashed into the sea, killing Lt. Col. Erez Shahanei, deputy commander of Ramet David airbase and Capt. Hen Fogel.
Chen Fogel was the deputy commander of the 193rd Squadron.

Interestingly, Fogel is the son of Gil Fogel, a phantom pilot who was shot down over Lebanon and returned from captivity after two years in 1984.

Gil's story: www.erim-pow.co.il/%D7%A1…
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Current rate is 29,050 LBP/USD
The USD exchange rate reaches an all time high of 29,550 LBP/USD. Unprecedented devaluation of the Lebanese lira in its history.

Likely 30,000 in a couple of days.
President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Najib Mikati issued separate statements in support of Saudi Arabia, after Hezbullah's SG Nasrallah's speech where he called out KSA for its support of terrorism in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon.

Mikati's call for Hezbullah to “become Lebanese” angered Hezbullah's political bloc who in return issued several statements. In the last elections, Hezbullah got 343,220 votes, the greatest number of votes in Lebanon, while Mikati's party got only 39,586.
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⋯ The estimated cost of producing one Captagon pill, along with the cost of smuggling it, about 85 cents, and it is sold in the Saudi “market” for between 10 and 20 dollars. A wide margin of profit allowing the exporters to not care about seized shipments.
⋯ Note that the arrest of Saudi Prince Abdul-Mohsen Al-Saud ("Prince of Captagon") at Beirut airport in 2015 while trying to smuggle two tons of Captagon pills on his private plane, is an indication of the category to which those involved in this trade belong to.
Pharmaceutical drug importers raised the prices of chronic disease medicines yesterday by 20 percent, under the pretext of the additional depreciation of the LBP.
Talking about Saudi Arabian terrorism against Lebanon, in my small research booklet about the FLLF, I talk about how Saudi Arabia funded a CIA program in Lebanon that employed an Israeli proxy to kill Sayed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah in 1985.

More than 200 civilian casualties.

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⋯ Hisham is currently entering into an early stage of coma, with doctors failing to wake him up to provide him with water.
Hisham Abu Hawwash has ended his hunger strike after 141 consecutive days of hunger strike in protest against his administrative detention (without a charge, a trial and time limit) after reaching a deal with the occupation authorities.

He will be released on 26 February.
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🚨 The Minister of Interior instructs the removal of signs and slogans deemed offensive to Saudi Arabia from the streets of the southern suburbs of Beirut.
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⋯ The posters, as seen here, show the picture of the king and quotes Nasrallah's latest speech.
🚨 The IDF claims to have shot down a drone for Islamic resistance-Hezbullah, which crossed the border from Lebanon towards northern occupied Palestine.
Irish UN Forces vs Lebanese:

A dispute occurred between a number of locals and Irish soldiers working within the UNIFIL Forces in one of Bint Jbeil's neighborhoods.

The problem occurred after a number of residents objected the soldiers photographing residential houses. The objection developed into a scuffle, and some broke the windows of the patrol cars that were not escorted by the Lebanese army, as normally required by Resolution 1701.
🦠 The Minister of Education: "Even the countries that suffer greatly from COVID-19 went back to school. We are confident that students wear a mask all the time."
Foreign funding for education programs for the displaced (Syrian, etc) comes in USD.

The Ministry of Education calculates, through the Central Bank, the exchange rate of these USD transactions at a rate of 20,000 LBP/USD.

That's 1/3rd less than the actual rate, net profit.