From an average of 10 Mbps to 190Kbps, the internet in Beirut is simply unusable!

Following Hezbullah's threats, Greece summoned the Lebanese chargé d'affaires and informed him that the ship in Karish was not owned by the Greek state but rather a Greek-Israeli businessman.

Note: Nasrallah didn't threaten Greece, but rather the ship itself.

This book, published in late 1980's, documents in 600+ pages the daily Israeli violations of Lebanon's sovereignty, in air at sea and on land, aggression on Lebanese civilians, and the Israeli attacks on Lebanese infrastructure and assets.

The book also describes in later chapters the official Lebanese response to these violations through sending complaints to the UN or in speeches. Its a 1,512 page book.

لدعم هذا المجهود، تبرع للمقاومة الإسلامية.

An earthquake was felt in Sidon city, South Lebanon. This is the second in the past 24 hours.

Lebanon is characterized by a low to moderate seismicity and the presence of major faults which have generated devastating historic earthquakes.

One of the biggest obstacles of the Lebanese-Egyptian electricity deal, is the U.S objection against Syria taking a % of electricity as a fee for the transit lines that go through Syrian land.

According to the U.S. administration, hunger is acceptable.

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⋯ According to the Lebanese minister of Energy, the project is on hold due to "political challenges".

Despite U.S's claim about a waiver for Lebanon against Caesar sanctions, no actual waiver has been issued by the Biden administration. The loan is on hold.

⋯ Similar to Syria, government-generated electricity provides a daily maximum of 1-3 hours.

The rest is covered by private generators which are not available in Syria.

Reporter Salem Zahran, close to Amal Movement: "The Americans informed Lebanon that claiming Line 29 will lead to war [with Israel] and U.S. sanctions."

Line 29 is where the Lebanese maritime border with occupied Palestine ends.

In an updated statement a short while ago, the Syrian ministry of transport reported that Damascus airport is closed "until further notice", after the Israeli attack severely damaged all runaways, the lighting and navigation equipment, and the infrastructure of the airport.

Lebanese officials' standpoint is likely as follows:

1- We legally own line 29
2- We will not claim line 29
3- Israel claims line 23 is disputed
4- UN recognizes line 23 as ours
5- We will negotiate to give Israel line 29 and we get line 23 undisputed, thus don't share Qana

⋯ Qana is a possible gas field over the line ⁠23 and beyond.

Karish is a proven gas field with massive riches to be generated from. Karish lies at line ⁠29.

Lebanon might be gambling for nothing.

⋯ The French energy company Total, which Lebanon renewed its contract few weeks ago, said that it will not drill in contested waters. So it won't drill in line 23 nor 29.

⋯ Energean, the Greek energy company which has the rights to exploit the Karish energy field, has taken out a $2.5 billion loan to finance the Karish project. The first instalment of that loan, some $625 million, needs to be repaid by first quarter 2024.

⋯ A better version of the map above:

⋯ On a final note, despite Hezbullah strongly stating line 29 is lebanese, and despite it believing that Karish is mostly Lebanese, it will likely drink the poison and accept line 23 if the Lebanese government ends up negotiating that.

Osama Saad, commenting on Sayyed Nasrallah's threats to the Israeli enemy, says: "The state is not ready politically, economically or legally for any confrontation with Israel. Let them negotiate [with Israel], and after that we can start preparing for this confrontation."

"Exactly 23 years ago, NATO, led by the United States, bombed Yugoslavia blindly, without having the UN Security Council's sanction for it."

China's special representative for Korean Peninsula Affairs Liu Xiaoming reminded the United States and NATO about this..

It lasted 78 days, the alliance dropped 420 thousand bombs on Yugoslavia with a total weight of 22 thousand tons, including 15 tons of depleted uranium ammunition, the diplomat recalled.

The situation is miserable!

Maronite patriarch Al-Rahi, commenting on Nasrallah's speech that aimed to maximize the Lebanese right of natural gas resources: "We should not get involved again in situations that would return Lebanon into a military arena for the benefit of foreign countries."