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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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UAE was not the first Arab country to start and have an active space program, it was Lebanon.

The Rocket Society which was led by Manoug Manougian consisted of a small group of students from the Haigazian University. It stopped due to political issues and foreign pressure. https://t.co/niGphRjQPf
They developed into the wider Lebanese space program and produced the first rockets of the Arab World, which were capable of suborbital flight

In 1963, a Cedar IV rocket was launched and reached a 140 km altitude, putting it close to the altitude of satellites in Low Earth Orbit https://t.co/CdbBmOuKii
A protest is ongoing at the entrance of the AUB medical center in support to the 800+ employees that were unjustly laid off in this harsh economical situation. https://t.co/xOSZLJkBeI
Forwarded from COVID-19 Up
🇱🇧 In the recent alarming update on the situation of COVID-19 in Lebanon, several clusters have been reported connected to returnees who tested negative on their initial test and then after several days, they tested positive. One of the cases tested negative in the USA and here.
And then after days of mixing with people, she showed signs and got tested again, resulting in a positive.

A similar incident happened in Saint George hospital where a patient tested twice negative, but ended up infecting 3 from the medical staff. He tested positive on the third test. @COVID19Up
The public prosecution court will send, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to some international electronic platforms located in the USA, a formal request to close applications related to the exchange rate of the dollar against the lira located outside Lebanon. https://t.co/QblAAZEhqv
Attorney Hassan Bazzi from the front of the Palace of Justice: Today we got a decision from the judge to place a precautionary seizure of the property of the Governor of the central Bank of Lebanon, Riad Salameh. https://t.co/E5TwsQVByy
MOI Fahmy: I try as much as possible to avoid imposing financial fines (regarding the 50,000 LL fine on wearing masks) on citizens due to the economic conditions, but it is their duty to feel responsible to protect themselves and the surrounding. https://t.co/1B9TK1z711
The first medical staff death recorded in Lebanon due to COVID-19 is Loay Ismael, 32 years old, with no preexisting health problems. https://t.co/nEtv6OmPB8
To clarify something about this as Israelis are arguing that not only did the drone trespass Israeli territory, but the band itself.

Here are some facts. https://t.co/Ko5UyITDgq https://t.co/fGjwAJA4tg
According to the official Israeli narrative, the blue line is the final/official border between Lebanon and Israel, where the IDF built the border wall in the Israeli side and meters away from the blue line aka far from the border of Lebanon. The IDF is allowed to cross the fence https://t.co/G3aIudBUUs
However that's not true at all, as Israel, Leb, and the UN know that there is exactly 13 contested points along the border claimed by Israel but are actually part of Lebanon. These 13 points make up 114 Km on the border. The blue line is a retreat line and not the official border https://t.co/o8pcOt7vZK
Lebanon has insisted on finding a solution to these 13 points, including the occupied Lebanese territories still under Israeli occupation in Al Ghajar, Kafarshoba, and Shebaa, before the official border can be decided and passed as official and final.
Therefore when you hear about the contested oil field in the sea in block 9 between Israel and Lebanon, it's due to the difference in this border that translates to a difference in the maritime border

The USA has been since 2016 trying to convince Lebanon to surrender the points https://t.co/alBragxBgh
This was discussed by the UN, the US ambassador, CENTCOM commander, and others. They asked Lebanon to give up on them. So it's kinda naive to say they are Israeli, when if true no one would have asked Lebanon to give them up

David Streatfield was the head of negotiations then. https://t.co/CBQv7SXHbU