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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.”
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⋯ Hamat and Rayak are two airbases under the Lebanese army command.

Hamat (Left) and Rayak (Right) frequently host American and CIA private jets and cargo planes.
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Saudi Arabia will not hand the bodies of the executed political dissidents to their families, and has threatened the latter against hosting any mourning ceremonies in Qatif or virtually on social media. The bodies will be buried in secret unmarked graves.
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.”
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Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian will visit Lebanon on Thursday, for his second official visit to Lebanon since taking office in August 2021.
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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.
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🚨 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)
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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”.
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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.
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Several Israeli government websites are down, as they are currently facing a cyber attack.
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⋯ Hebrew media: State of Emergency declared as a result of several cyber attacks targeting most Israeli Government websites.
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⋯ According to data from the Internet Association, unusual increase in traffic via Cellcom (Netvision) was recorded. This indicates a denial of service (DDOS) attack, with a bandwidth about 15-20 GB.

The attack started at 18:15 and ended at about 19:30.
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One of the victims of the mass execution by the Saudi regime was killed for having videos of Hezbullah SG's religious speeches and religious videos in which Hezbullah's flag appears in, likely from Ashoura or similar mass gatherings.

81 were executed in a single day, including 41 Shiites, in the biggest mass execution of prisoners in the kingdom's history.

t.me/LebUpdate/23751
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20 minutes before the deadline to register for the upcoming elections, 1,040 have submitted their papers to participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Lebanon's parliament is 128 seats.
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🗳 As this year's elections are close, here is a rundown of the 2018 elections:

1⃣ Hezbullah and Amal (joint list) had the greatest share of votes: 487,060, 26.2% of the total, 80% of the Shia votes.

2⃣ Future Movement (Saad Hariri's party) had 256,160 votes, 13.8% of the total, and 47% of the Sunni votes.

3⃣ The Free Patriotic Movement (Michel Aoun's party) had 164,599 votes, 8.8% of the total, and 25% of the Christian votes.

4⃣ Lebanese Forces (Samir Geagea's party) had 147,663 votes, 7.9% of the total, and 23% of the Christian votes.

5⃣ The Progressive Socialist Party (Walid Joumblatt's party) had 83,066 votes, 4.5% of the total, and 60% of the Druze votes.
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⋯ Other notable results were:

• Al-Azm (Najib Mikati's party) with 42,018 votes, 2.3% of the total and 7% of the Sunni votes.

• Kataeb Party, with 33,240 votes, 1.8% of the total and 5.4% of the Christian votes.

• Al-Marada Party, with 25,252 votes, 1.4% the total and 3.4% of Christian votes.
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⋯ The numbers are from this table.
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