Samir Geagea: Our victory in the upcoming parliamentary elections, will inevitably lead to an "immediate improvement in the exchange rate".

Bakeries Syndicate: The price of a bundle of bread (1 Kg) increased from 8,000 LBP to 9,500 at bakeries, and to 10,000 LBP at supermarkets.

Note: Supermarkets are selling it at 11,000 as they are paying for delivery from the bakeries.

Lebanese Interior Minister: Any gathering in Lebanon which might include disrespect to our Arab brothers constitutes a departure from the laws and the Lebanese constitution. This will affect the interests of the Lebanese at home and abroad & threatens civil peace.

Lebanese journalist close to the KSA:

"Democratic life must be suspended and the political crisis deepened in order to reach a coercive treatment of Hezbullah's weapons. Lebanon needs a major event like the assassination of Soleimani."

Last night, Omar Abdelmajid As'ad, an 80-year-old Palestinian man was on his way back home after a visit to his relatives in his hometown of Jiljilya, in the occupied West Bank district of Ramallah, when an ambush of Israeli soldiers stopped and arrested him and tied his hands to the back.

The soldiers took him to a workshop in the village and embarked on beating him while he was handcuffed, according to witnesses.

Nearly an hour later, a group of local Palestinian young men who accidentally passed by the workshop where the old man was being beaten, but the soldiers also attacked and detained them in the workshop with the old man, who had already been beaten for a while.

As soon as the soldiers pulled out of the village and released them, including the old man, the young men noticed that As'ad was on the verge of death. And when they moved him to a nearby hospital, the old man had already passed away. An initial medical checkup to the deceased old man showed bruises across his body.

"People protested here because the Israeli apartheid is trying to rip their homes from them."

Watch | #Palestinian activist Adan Hjouj speaks about the events that have been taking place over the past few days in a number of Palestinian villages in the Negev desert, south of 1948-occupied Palestine.

British journalist and activist Sarah Wilkinson gives a glimpse of what's happening in the Negev desert in a few words.

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3 explosions reported in Deir Al-Zahrani, south Lebanon.

⋯ photo from homuin, near Deir Al-Zahrani.

⋯ The fire is still burning, and the cause of the explosions is still unknown.

⋯ Firefighters and Ambulances reach the scene.
Note that there was no enemy aircraft activity reported before the explosions.

Today was supposed to be a major "anger" day around Lebanon to protest the deteriorating economic situation, however, as of now, the protests and roadblocks are limited.