Despite the USD exchange rate's decrease of 40%, prices of goods and food are still priced at a rate of 33,000 LBP/USD with some even increasing.

Merchants are refusing to match the USD exchange rate, in light total absence of the government supervision.

On this day in February 1979, the face of West Asia changed forever.

With Egypt surrendering to Israel, a wise man rose from Qom to counter that loss eventually, fighting injustice at home, to establish a new righteous front of believers and freedom fighters.

Amnesty International: Israel is an ‘APARTHEID’ state (1 ⁠Feb 2022)

A landmark recognition. The NGO asserts the charge: “The crime against humanity of ‘apartheid’ under the Apartheid Convention, the Rome Statute and customary international law, is committed when any inhumane act (essentially a serious human rights violation) is perpetrated in the context of an institutionalised regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over another, with the intention to maintain that system”.

Four strategies used by the Israeli regime are dissected: fragmentation, dispossession, segregation and deprivation. To achieve them: “ethnic cleansing”, “enclaves” separated by walls, “distinct legal regimes”, “massive land seizures”, “deliberate impoverishment”, “demolitions”, “forced evictions”: 100,000 Palestinians in the West Bank and 68,000 in Israel are “at imminent risk of losing their homes”...

Amnesty calls the world to hold Israel to account. It is “time to speak up”.

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⋯ Download the report:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/MDE1551412022ENGLISH.pdf

Amnesty International:

- The situation in the Naqab region is a prime example of how Israel’s planning and building policies intentionally exclude Palestinians.
- Since 1948 Israeli authorities have adopted various policies to “Judaize” the Naqab, including designating large areas as nature reserves or military firing zones, and setting targets for increasing the Jewish population.
- This has had devastating consequences for the tens of thousands of Palestinian Bedouins who live in the region.
- Thirty-five Bedouin villages, home to about 68,000 people, are currently “unrecognized” by Israel, which means they are cut off from the national electricity and water supply and targeted for repeated demolitions.
- As the villages have no official status, their residents also face restrictions on political participation and are excluded from the healthcare and education systems. These conditions have coerced many into leaving their homes and villages, in what amounts to forcible transfer.

#EndIsraeliApartheid

What do the main three human rights organizations working in occupied Palestine say about Israeli apartheid? Here's an outline.

#EndIsraeliApartheid

Defense for Children International: "Israeli children will never see the inside of a military court, whereas Palestinian children are detained, tortured, and prosecuted in the Israeli military detention system. There's a word for that: Apartheid."

#EndIsraeliApartheid

Why the IDF can't operate against Lebanon in winter:

From a recent exercise in the occupied Golan Heights.

Reports of Israeli sonic boom, causing shaking in Beirut.

Several explosion-like sounds were heard.

The Israeli army showcases the successful deployment of an airborne-laser based interception system of UAVs.

The system is however ineffective in a combat scenario with busy skies and large numbers of incoming threats

The Lebanese prime minister and 8 ministers are currently in Turkey being hosted by the president Erdogan.

A new Axis of Resistance auxiliary non-state actor calling itself "Righteous Promise Brigades - Arabian Peninsula" has announced a drone attack against UAE.

The group threatens to continue attacks as long as UAE interfers in Iraq's and Yemen's internal affairs.

⋯ Just now, after this statement, almost 20 hours after the incident, the UAE military issues a statement claiming it intercepted “three hostile drones”.

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