⋯ The Lebanese Forces have opened many offices in new areas to attract votes and distribute free goods.
After focusing on their main Christian base, they are focusing on the Sunni population, in order to keep some seats they gained by support from Future Movement [FM].
Those seats are now vulnerable due to FM's decision not to be part of the elections.

It would only be reasonable for Russia to retaliate for the western javelins to Ukraine by losing several thousand Kornet-E in Syria that will find their way somehow to Lebanon and Gaza.

Today: Germany will supply Ukraine with 5,000 military helmets.

Maybe trying to replace THOSE helmets?

🚨 The phone of the head of ‘Human Rights Watch’ in Lebanon was hacked by the Israeli NSO's ‘Pegasus’ spyware, while she was following up on the investigation into the 2020 Beirut port explosion.

Lama Fakih (a dual US-Lebanese citizen) was targeted 5 ⁠times between April and August 2021. She was notified by Apple in November. So far, 300 Lebanese phone numbers have been hacked, including those of President Aoun and ex-PM Hariri. Previous known targets include NYT bureau chief in Beirut Ben Hubbard, Al-Akhbar journalist Radwan Mortada and Al-Jazeera journalist Ghada Oueiss.

www.hrw.org/news/2022/01/26…

Undercover report of prostitution rings in Tripoli, consisting of young Lebanese and Syrian women.

According to the report, the meetings take place in a Hotel in Qalamon for a price tag of 5-10$.

If the World Bank is to finance, under a loan, electricity from Jordan and gas from Egypt, with a value that may exceed $1 billion, then why not build new plants with this amount, reduce loss, and raise tariffs?

Temporary solutions for electoral reasons = high cost. twitter.com/JawadAdra/sta…

Report: Earlier, the Lebanese security forces uncovered that tens of tons of captagon where prepared and packaged in Northern Lebanon and Majdal Anjar, putting the north as a new hotpot for major narcotics' production aside from Beqaa in general (Brital, Deir Al-Ahmar, etc..)

🚨 Random arrests by Saudi security forces of Lebanese in the country!

By @‌‌‎afif_shoman_a, a spox of the Lebanese arrested in UAE.

Lebanon lost in the World Cup qualifiers by 1-0 against South Korea.

American Media: U.S. State Department guidance calls on Americans to "reconsider travel" to the United Arab Emirates "due to the threat of missile or drone attacks."

A diaspora wishful of being a PM, Omar Harfoush: I want to go to Dahyeh [Beirut's southern suburb] and see with my own eyes whether the people there are Lebanese or not, and I will film this with my phone's camera if they allow me to do so.

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On this day, January 27, 2008, 8 people were killed and more than 30 wounded by the Lebanese army, after young men from Dahyeh protested against the power cuts in their neighborhoods for more than two days.

The protests expanded at night to include the South and Bekaa.

⋯ Five years after the case, the military court convicted two lieutenant-colonel officers handing them a fine of 280,000 (181$) each, and a brigadier general for a fine of 140,000 LBP (92$).

This is one of many times the army shot and killed Hezbullah or Amal protestors.