The U.S.A airforce is taking part in the Israeli military’s Chariots of Fire drill.

The drill simulates a multi-front war against Lebanon, Gaza, and eventually Syria/Iran.

In one of the interesting stories of the Lebanese elections, Hezbullah's MP Hussein Izzeddine got 27,927 votes which is greater than the votes Kataeb party's 4 MP got combined.

Izzeddine ranks 4th between Hezbullah's MP in terms of vote count.

According to Al-Akhbar's tally, majority of Amal Movement's MP lost votes in comparison with 2018's results, while Hezbullah's increased in an an average of 3,000 vote each.

6 Hezbullah MPs got more votes, singlehandedly, than Kataeb party, with at least 2 getting double the amount of votes.

Mohamed Raad got 48,324 votes, followed by Hasan Fadallah with 43,324, then Ali Fayyad with 37,047, and so on.

An interesting observation would be Hezbullah's ability to guide its voters' choices.

Back in 2018, it directed 33,223 votes towards Jamil Al-Sayid, who ran independently but on their list, while this year gave him the threshold of 11,705 only. A decrease of 21,518 votes.

14 MPs who represent the 17-October protests are currently holding a meeting in a hotel in Beirut to form a unified bloc and discuss future plans about who to nominate for parliament speaker position and so on.

Today: Despite his accusations earlier, a delegation from Hezbullah in Sidon city visit MP-elect Osama Saad and congratulated him on his success in the elections. twitter.com/LebUpdate/sta…

⋯ A delegation also visited MP Abdul Rahman Bizri to congratulate him.

🚨 Rocket alarm on the Lebanese border with Palestine

⋯ Two Iron Dome rockets were fired, two explosions were heard.

This is not part of the ongoing drill. No reports of rocket launch from Lebanon, likely a UAV.

🚨 The Israeli army attempted to shoot down its own UAV, because of mis-identification.

No UAV entered from the Lebanese airspace into Palestine.

⋯ Another angle of the failed interception by the Iron Dome of an Israeli UAV.

The Iron Dome also failed to intercept a UAV from Lebanon back in February, that flew over Palestine for about 40 minutes, 70 km deep.

⋯ During this incident, Israeli jets penetrated the Lebanese airspace at very low altitudes.

They have left as soon the UAV was identified.

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In the 2022 parliamentary elections, a whopping 57,873 votes were canceled. The highest number was in North II (6,880 papers).

The number of blank votes increased to 19,308. The highest number was in South III district (3042) and the lowest in Beirut I (395).

Representatives of the Lebanese Army, Israeli defense forces, and the UNIFIL are currently meeting in the UN HQ in Naqoura; a monthly meeting since the 1996 war.