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.

Today marks Hezbullah's first offensive operation in what is known as the battle of Qusayr, Syria.

Heavy causalities were inflicted in the first day, highest in its history, but they were fast to adapt, learn, and achieve victory in 3 weeks.

⋯ The operation started at dawn, after liberating the countryside.

This operation was carried to deny the terrorists a safe heaven near the Lebanese border and halt the support flow from Lebanon to Syria.

The war was covered by a Hezbullah documentary "أسرار التحرير الثاني"

⋯ Part of Hezbullah's Secretary General Sayed Hasan Nasrallah's speech before the launch of Hezbullah's operation in 2013.

Words about Hezbullah's ethics in war.

⋯ Hezbullah mourned 50-52 martyrs on the first day.

The IDF is building an additional wall to protect its existing wall on the Lebanese border facing Ramiah village.

For the past 3 months, Lebanon didn't import much needed cancer medications and have lifted the subsidy on many medications already.

The current Health Minister Firas Al-Abyad is failing to tackle this pressing issue.

Bakery syndicate in Lebanon: The bread crisis is real and caused by the lack of flour at the mills after the central bank failed to pay importing companies.

West Bank: During a raid on Tulkarm university by the IDF, two armed soldiers are seen escaping from a student who threw at them a small rock.

After touring on polling stations during the elections, the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea met with the head of the Lebanese “General Security”, General Abbas Ibrahim, to discuss the current Lebanese internal political developments.

Palestine: The IDF will NOT open a criminal investigation into the death of Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, killed in Jenin last week, according to Jerusalem Post's military correspondent Anna Ahronheim.

While IDF does not prosecute its soldiers for crimes against Palestinians, it is reported by AP that the Israeli military “has identified a soldier's rifle that may have killed” the journalist, “but [it] said it cannot be certain unless the Palestinians turn over the bullet for analysis”.

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The Lebanese Forces, FPM, opposition and most of the independents will not vote for Nabih Berri to become Parliament Speaker.

Judging by the fact that he's the only candidate, government formation and presidential elections will be very hard in the absence of cooperation.

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During the May 2021 aggression, Islamic Jihad in Gaza successfully sent a UAV over the Israeli settlements and IDF positions near Gaza.

It returned home safely.

🚨 The USA designated Ahmad Abdallah, a Lebanese businessman as well as five of his associates and eight of his companies in Lebanon and Iraq, for allegedly having financial ties to Hezbullah.

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