Al Mayadeen: A leadership delegation from Hamas headed by Moussa Abu Marzouk arrives in Moscow for talks.

⋯ Russian Foreign Ministry: "There are mercenaries from Israel fighting alongside the Azov battalion. Israel cannot ignore this."

Read more about the Israeli fighters in Ukraine: t.me/LebUpdate/24176

⋯ Israeli PM Naftali Bennett: "I was shocked by the statement of the Russian Foreign Minister. It sparked my extreme anger and feeling of disgrace. Lavrov has chosen to spread horrific lies with the smell of anti-Semitism. I expect him to backtrack and apologize."

Hezbullah's SG Sayed Hassan Nasrallah will speak at an elections rally in the city of Tyre on Monday, 9 May at 5 pm.

Note: The election for the diaspora takes place on the 8th.

Saudi state media: "The Sunnis will defeat Nasrallah at the ballot box. On May 15: The battle to liberate Lebanon from Iran."

www.okaz.com.sa/news/poli…

Parents of dead Israeli soldiers screamed at PM Naftali Bennett during the commemoration of army's deaths shouting: “A traitor, despicable, fraudulent, be shy, you have to be ashamed.”

Quds News Network: “Israeli occupation forces installed the flags of Israeli occupation on al-Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron celebrating what is so-called the ‘Israel independence day’.”

The Ibrahimi Mosque was divided in the 1990s between Muslims and Jews. More about it: t.me/LebUpdate/22158

⋯ Jerusalem: The Israeli army activates and puts on high-alert the Iron Dome in the settlement of “Maale Adumim”. An escalation is possible with the renewal of settler incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque.

twitter.com/allushiii_new…

Update: The shepherd was released the same day, at dawn.

Lebanese PM Najib Mikati: "We accomplished all of the agreements with Jordan and Egypt on buying electricity, but we are still waiting for US exception from sanctions."

Electricity lines will pass through Syria, Lebanon's only land border with other countries.

Families from the occupied Lebanese lands scolds all Lebanese political parties for failing to set the liberation of parts of south Lebanon in their elections-campaign goals.

Except a few, the majority considers that these lands are Syrian, and that Lebanon has no claim to them.

The Lebanese government acknowledges Shebaa farms and parts of Al-Ghajar village as Lebanese. However, it doesn't acknowledge the other 7 Lebanese villages that fall today in Palestine's borders.

A month has passed since the Lebanese Minister of health Hamad Hassan stated that the U.S. embassy provided Lebanon with expired COVID-19 Moderna vaccines.

There was no comment by the US embassy in Beirut.

Khaled Al-Askar, head of the "Beqaa First" list backed by the Lebanese Forces party, withdrew from the elections.

This makes him the 4th to withdraw from LF backed parties, but none of this will be official as it's past due time to withdraw.