Hello all, I'm planning to write a paper about Turkey's ill influence in MENA.

It would be highly appreciated if you can recommend articles or research on Turkey's historic relationship with Israel and military interventions.

Paper will be posted here: t.me/LebPublications

Billionaire and MP Fouad Makhzoumi will leave tomorrow for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for a 3-day visit, where he will try to gain Saudi support in the upcoming elections.

⋯ Makhzoumi used to benefit from Shia votes in Beirut's second district, but since wining in 2018, his attacks on Hezbullah and disrespect to the resistance made his chances for re-election slim.

He was the only candidate, in his party, to win in 2018.

Jerusalem: Since yesterday evening, Israeli police and rabid Jewish extremists are attacking the Palestinians in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, in an continued effort to exert pressure against them to leave.

Saad Al-Hariri arrived today to Lebanon on the eve of the murder of his father, PM Rafic Al-Hariri, in 2005.

Despite the Lebanese Lira gaining 35% of its value vs the USD in the past two months, prices in Lebanon INCREASED instead of decreasing to match the change.

On this day twitter.com/LebUpdate/sta…

The Lebanese Foreign Ministry advises Lebanese nationals in Ukraine to leave quickly & voluntarily until the tension subsides and things return to normal.

Hebrew Media: Israeli FM Lapid says that from talks Israel had with the Biden administration in diplomatic & intelligence channels the window for getting Israeli citizens out of Ukraine is very narrow. “I tell Israelis in Ukraine – come back home before it gets complicated”

Hours ago, the "Israeli army" shot a drone over the border with Lebanon, falsely assuming it belonged to Hezbullah.

The small drone was operated by another IDF unit nearby.

A recent IDF drill simulated a scenario where a whole IDF brigade is under Hezbullah siege, for days without reinforcement.

t.me/LebUpdate/23371

Lebanon beats Jordan 64-52 and qualifies for the semi-finals to face Somalia on Monday, in the Arab Basketball Championship.

Full report (Arabic, Hebrew)

WATCH: Clashes are taking place now in Silat al-Harithiya town, north of the occupied West Bank, as the Israeli army raids the town to carry out retaliatory demolitions of four homes for #Palestinian freedom fighters.

The Israeli occupation forces shot and injured a 17-year-old Palestinian boy during a violent raid campaign into Silat Al-Harithiya village in #Jenin city shortly ago. The boy's injury is described as "very critical."

Update | Palestinian Ministry of Health: A very critical head injury, and two serious injuries among Palestinians in the village of Silat Al-Harithiya, west of #Jenin city, by the IOF's gunfire tonight.

Jerusalem: Fanatical Knesset Member Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of ‘Jewish Power’, was taught a lesson tonight (by the Israeli occupation forces), after he and his followers stormed the occupied neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem, moving his “parliamentary office” there, on the property of the Salem family.

This provocation, ongoing for 2 days, comes amid high tensions and the forced evictions of Palestinians. The entrances leading to Sheikh Jarrah are currently blocked, as the Israeli occupation forces amassed troops and water cannons. The Palestinians have been protesting since yesterday, and tried to protect the Salem family's house from the Jewish fanatics trespassing into it.

Besides, the occupation forces also attempted to break into a Palestinian house tonight.

#Breaking | For the second day in a row, far-right Israeli MK Itamar Ben-Gvir arrives in Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, according to local sources.
#SaveSheikhJarrah

Watch | Israeli occupation forces storm Palestinian-owned houses in the occupied #Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, today.
#SaveSheikhJarrah

A 17-year-old Palestinian teenager, Mohammed Abu Salah, has succumbed to his injuries that he sustained in the head by the Israeli occupation forces during a military raid into the village of Silat al-Harithiya in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, last night.

If Lebanon was negotiating with Palestine and not Israel, regarding the shared maritime border, Lebanon would have adopted a maximalist approach that would have surely been beyond line 29 further into Palestine.

That's a fact.