The Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), Gebran Bassil's party, nominated 20 candidates for the 2022 elections. While it is less than in previous years, likely more “independent” candidates will be supported to form a coalition.

• Akkar: Assaad Dargham, Jimmy Jabbour
• Koura: George Atallah
• Zgharta: Pierre Raffoul
• Byblos: Simon Abu Rumya
• Batroun: Gebran Bassil
• Keserwan: Nada Boustani
• Matn: Eddie Maalouf, Elias Abu Saab, Ibrahim Kanaan
• Baabda: Alain Aoun
• Aley: Cesar Abi Khalil
• Chouf: Ghassan Atallah
• Beirut (1st): Nicolas Sahnawi
• Jezzine: Salim Khoury, Amal Abu Zeid, Ziad Aswad
• Zahle: Salim Aoun
• Beirut (2nd): Edgar Trabelsi
• Western Beqaa: Charbel Maroun
• Northern Beqaa: will be decided later.

List by FPM / Al-Manar

The Iraqi government, MFA, Iraqi Kurdistan government, and Muqtada Al-Sadr condemn the attack on Kurdistan and denies Mossad is present in the country.

Beqaa: A gas tank exploded, and its fire extended to a warehouse for storing gas bottles in Al-Qasr-Hermel, which led to several injuries.

The snow storm continues to cover Dahr Al-Baidar area in north Lebanon.

It is expected to last for few more days.

IRGC to Tasnim:

- Attack involved 10 Fateh-110 missiles, all of which hit their targets accurately

- The target was the HQ of Israel in Erbil, not the U.S. Consulate

- The operation took place after the Zionist regime carried out actions that harm Iran’s interests from Erbil

Head of Hezbullah's parliamentary bloc Muhammad Raad:

“We know how many American soldiers are travelling between Hamat and Rayak and the embassy in Awkar. The number of the US soldiers is greater than the number of Iranian civilians who have official residency in Lebanon.”

Hezbullah: “This criminal regime carried out a mass field execution that reveals its truth by practicing the most heinous forms of sectarian discrimination against its people who demand the most basic rights to a dignified life. This terrorist regime, which wears the guise of Islam and claims to serve the Two Holy Mosques, is working in the service of the Zionist enemy and normalization with it. It is certain that all the treacherous steps taken by the Gulf emirates would not have taken place without Saudi Arabia's support and approval.”

Ukraine: Yossi Dagan, the head of the Shamron Regional Council (a settlement in Palestine’s West Bank), has spent the past three days on the Romanian-Ukrainian border offering Jews the option of residency in his area.

The West Bank is internationally recognized as occupied lands.

🚨 Israel announced that it will accept only Jewish refugees, after the quota of 5k non-Jews was reached today.

On 6 March, Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked lamented that 90% of the 2,034 Ukrainians who arrived in Israel were not Jews and that it “cannot go on”. “We can't keep going at this rate”, Shaked said. (Haaretz)

A deposit of 10,000 shekels (~3,000$) was required for the non-Jewish Ukrainians to be hosted by a relative. Last week, Shaked said guarantees were paid in only 20% of the cases. It was dropped yesterday and replaced by a proof of approval by the Foreign Ministry required before flying to Israel, and the relative must be a citizen. (Haaretz)

Hence, the Israeli immigration police tried to deport some of the now 7,179 Ukrainian refugees. Of them, 221 were refused entry. (i24 News)

An Israeli private jet from Israel just landed in Beirut.

The plane briefly touched the ground in Larnaca, Cyprus, to avoid being considered a “direct flight”.

Amal Movement announces the names of 16 candidates for the upcoming parliamentary elections.

The names include Marwan Kheireddin, a corrupt anti-Hezbullah banker, who is close to Walid Joumblatt.

Several Israeli government websites are down, as they are currently facing a cyber attack.

⋯ Hebrew media: State of Emergency declared as a result of several cyber attacks targeting most Israeli Government websites.

Against all odds, the USA confirms the site attacked by Iran was used by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad as a “training facility”.

Update: A senior Biden administration official refuted the earlier comment.

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