The Meteorological Service reported that volatile weather dominates the eastern basin of the Mediterranean due to cold air masses over Turkey, with temperatures below their seasonal rates for the month of March by about 5 degrees, and it continues until Sunday morning.

⋯ Thunderstorms are reported over southwestern Syria and northern Lebanon, with heavy hail and rain.

Rain and thunderstorm in Beirut, just minutes into summer time ⛈️

We have changed to summer time 40 ⁠minutes ago (+1 hour).

👨‍⚕🏥 According to the syndicate of nurses, more than 2,000 experienced nurses have left Lebanon since 2020.

As of 2021, the UN reported that 40% of the doctors and 30% of the nurses have already left Lebanon.

Lebanon's hospitals are currently severely understaffed, as thousands of doctors and nurses emmigrated to the West and Gulf states.

This has caused major delays in operations, and the inability of hospitals to cope with normal traffic.

Israel will host a unique summit with the US, UAE, Egypt, Bahrain and Morocco as part of the Abraham Accords. Jordan was invited but will not join.

It's reported that the Arab leaders may pay a visit to David Ben Gurion's grave in Sde Boker, where the summit is being held.

Ukraine: After hundreds of videos were posted showing Ukrainian soldiers torturing civilians and minors, naked, by strapping them to poles on the street and beating them, footage of shooting prisoners of war and executing them started to surface.

🔞 Graphic video: t.me/iswnews_en/4868

⋯ This war, like any other war, is never a scenario where humans show their best values, but like any other modern war, Western-backed militias and armies continue to highlight the hypocrisy of the Western democracy and values that they seem to neglect and advance only evil.

Lebanese-Ukrainians and Lebanese have staged a demonstration in support of Ukraine and against Russia.

The visit of the 4 Arab leaders to the grave of the founder of Israel, first PM, ex-MoD David Ben-Gurion, is confirmed.

They will later on have a feast (menu in the picture), consisting of plagiarized Middle-Eastern food, such as typical Palestinian bread (taboon), hardened bread rings kaak (“Jerusalem bagel”), Levantine sesame paste tahini, Levantine parsley and bulgur salad tabbouleh (in a variation with cauliflower), “Golan Heights' lamb”, and an ersatz of rice (wheat-based substitute “Ben-Gurion's rice”, also known as ‘Israeli couscous’).

The Arab leaders' planes will land at an IDF Air Force base that hosts F-35s.