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.

A disturbing video circulating through social media of a Lebanese man brutally dragging a foreign home-caretaker.

As heard in the video:
– What do you want from her?, the neighbor asks.
– She's trying to escape.

She was likely attempting to run away from the abusive home she was in. Foreign home-caretakers have for long been abused, in absence of laws that can protect them.

Update: t.me/LebUpdate/22855

Archive: In memory of the martyr of the Islamic Resistance Movement in Palestine, a tribute will be held in his honor on Sunday 14/1/1996 9:00 a.m. in Husseiniya of Lady Fatima al-Zahra, Beirut - Zkak al-Blat. We invite you to attend the celebration.

Signed: Hezbullah

Security forces arrested the man seem in the video above.

Incident took place in Jourit Al-Ballot.

A newly-delivered “US scrap metal” helicopter to the Lebanese army malfunctioned and crashed.

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Initial, yet unconfirmed, reports of intense Israeli airforce activity over Metn area, Lebanon.

For the past 72 hours, Iraqi resistance in Syria and Iraq engaged USA bases with drones and rockets about half a dozen times.

USA occupation forces retaliated with several airstrikes. Attacks from both sides are expected to continue.

Will report below casualties only.

Al-Mayadeen: A fire broke out in the village of Al-Hurriya in the northern countryside of Quneitra, Syria due to an Israeli attack with shells and machine guns.

On the shroud that Qassem Soleimani was buried wrapped with, he had the signature of 40 religious scholars who wrote on it that they testify in front of God that he was a good man.

Photo: Hezbullah's SG Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was one of those who wrote and signed on it.

On a bridge somewhere in Lebanon:

"Dear [Interior] Minister, habibi [darling], do you know that the terrorist prince Mohammad Bin Salman is a criminal killer thug who kidnapped Saad Al-Hariri, may God protect him."

IDF fired 3 bullets near youth who approached the border area near Mays Al-Jabal.

Now: A US hit team killed the family (wife and 3 children) of a PMF commander in Baghdad.

The commander, Ahmad Abdul-Mutaleb Abdul-Razak is injured and hospitalized.

⋯ Update by Sabereen news:

Initial reports indicate that the crime was carried out with silenced weapons at dawn today, and the scene was not revealed until a while ago.

Lebanon recorded 7,247 new COVID-19 cases and 18 deaths.

This is the highest number on record.

Lebanon's COVID-19 cases keep rising, reaching a new all time high of 7,974 new cases.

19 new deaths have also been recorded.

Yemen: The UAE- & KSA-backed forces of “Al-Amaliqa” brought down and burned the Yemeni flag after they overrun Ansarullah in an area called Usaylan (Shabwa Governorate).

The bombardment by the Saudi coalition warplanes is heavy: 140 airstrikes in the last 72 hours west of Shabwa (a front south of Marib). Ansarullah had to retreat due to the heavy bombardment and the reinforcement of enemy troops in Shabwa and Marib after the latter withdrew from Al-Hodeidah and the western coast of Yemen in mid-November.