Turkey and Israel foreign ministers held a phone call today, the first between the two countries' top diplomats in 13 years, according to Israeli media.

Reports that the upcoming government budget will include new high taxes, lifting the official rate (thus the internet, electricity, water), and increasing tariffs.

⋯ Palestinian Islamic Jihad issued the following statement

(Note: Hamas is expected to stay silent)

🔴 Spokesman Of Yemeni Armed Forces Yahya Al Sare'e asks foreign companies to leave UAE.

@Politicalinfogroup

The Palestinian Abu Hassan Salameh once travelled to Disneyland with his wife at the CIA's invitation. He later became the chief of operations for Black September, the organization responsible for the massacre during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games and other terror attacks.

Meeting Bashir Al-Gemayel, as pictured in this photo, was normal for him. twitter.com/Abbas_7adi/st…

⋯ His CIA handler, Robert Ames, was killed in the US embassy bombing in 1983.

Kuwait's foreign minister, Ahmad Al Sabbah, is expected to visit Lebanon today.

An investigative report by Haaretz: "For decades, Israel denied the massacre at Tantura in 1948. Now, the soldiers who committed the heinous acts of ethnic cleansing are confirming what Palestinians have said all along: villagers were systematically slaughtered."

One of the testimonies of the Haaretz recent report on the Tantura massacre in 1948, which saw the murder of more than 200 Palestinians by Zionist militias.

#TanturaMassacre

Kuwaiti Foreign Minister, during his visit with PM Mikati: "Lebanon is a distinguished icon in the Arab world, and we stress the need for it not to interfere in the affairs of any Arab country."

Hamas didn't stay silent, Hamas condemned... the accusations against the UAE and KSA:

"In response to the statements issued in the past few days, and the chants launched in our Palestinian arena against Arab and Gulf countries, we in the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, stress that this does not reflect our position and our well-known and established policies."

Yesterday, a large group of people demonstrated in the streets of Gaza against the bombardment on Yemen.

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و بعد البيان المخزي، أصبح جليا أن حركة المقاومة الإسلامية حماس لن تتحرر من قيودها السياسية الطائفية حتى تخرج من عبائة تركيا و قطر.

تركيا، البلد الأكبر في حلف الناتو بعد الولايات المتحدة، المستضيفة للقواعد الأمريكية و الغربية، المطبعة صاحبة السفارة و العلاقات الحميمة مع إسرائيل

English: In my opinion, after this shameful statement, it became clear that the Islamic resistance movement Hamas would not be freed from its sectarian political shackles until it emerges from the mantle of Turkey and Qatar.

Turkey, the largest NATO country after the United States, hosts American and Western bases, close economic ties and an embassy with Israel.

Israeli jets are currently patrolling the border area between Lebanon and Palestine.

Beirut: Start of today's protest under the motto “To the street” in front of the Banking Association.

ALFA Telecom in Lebanon issued the following statement: "Alfa station in the town of Fakeha was robbed of its fuel and electrical components, which led to the station's suspension, and consequently the service interruption in large areas in Baalbek-Hermel."

Dozens of cars are stuck on Dahr El Baidar road due to the accumulation of snow.

🚨 According to the Lebanese MFA, the Kuwaiti MFA delivered Lebanon a paper with 12 demands to be accomplished before Lebanon can restore its ties with the Gulf monarchies.

One of the demands is to implement the UN Resolution 1559, which stipulates disarming Hezbullah.

Lebanese Interior Minister: "We have taken many measures to prevent any Arab opposition and offensive activities against the Gulf states."

Lebanon, unofficially, hosts Bahraini and Saudi opposition who were deported from their homeland.