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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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⋯ Herzi Halevi is the current deputy chief of staff.

Battles:
Lebanon (1985-2006)
First & Second Intifada
Operation Cast Lead
Operation Pillar of Defense
Operation Protective Edge

He was the commander of Sayeret Matkal and the paratroopers. He's an Orthodox Jew.
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⋯ Yoel Strick, former commander of the military’s Ground Forces, serves as a research fellow at another think tank in Washington

Battles:
Lebanon (1985-2006)
First & Second Intifada
Operation Cast Lead
Operation Pillar of Defense
Operation Protective Edge
Operation Northern Shield
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🚨 Officially, Lebanon demanded line 23 and full rights to Qana Gas field that crosses line 23.
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Lebanese News and Updates
The shooter has surrended to the Information Branch of ISF in Beirut.
Amal Movement mourned the death of Hussein Ramal who was killed trying to mediate between the two families.
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Forwarded from Quds News Network
"Israeli" MK Matan Kahana: "If there was a button I could press that would take all the Arabs and put them on a train to Switzerland, I would. A button like that does not exist."
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Yet again, the explosions heard in south Lebanon were caused by Israeli jets violating Lebanon's airspace and crossing the sound barrier, causing sonic booms.
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Israel War minister Benny Gantz is accelerating the appointment process, 6 months ahead of Kochavi's retirement, fearing a possible collapse in Bennet-Lapid's government.

Thread presenting the 3 candidates:
t.me/LebUpdate/26045
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🚨 The UAE kidnapped another Lebanese!

Locals in Jebshit (South Lebanon) appealed to the authorities to work for the release of Hussein Nahal and his son Muhammad, who have been detained in the UAE for 4 days.

11 months ago, Saudi Arabia also kidnapped a Lebanese engineer who has been working legally in KSA for more than 20 years. His parents were unable to contact him in prison and the Saudi authorities are not responding to their plea.

Gulf countries target mainly Lebanese Shia Muslims.
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🛑 The Ministry of Health announced that the number of reported cases of hepatitis A virus is 555, most of them in Beqaa (217) and the North (202), with high incidence rates in the age group from 5 to 19 years.

Lebanon is in severe shortage of vaccines.
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🚨 Israeli-born, ex-IDF soldier, and current US mediator Amos Hochstein, in a reply to the Lebanese politician Gebran Bassil:

«Bassil's proposal of ‘Karish for Qana’ is a populist slogan, I know it's hard because people like slogans.»

Hochstein wants to deny Lebanon not only Karish, but also Qana. (Map)
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⋯ Israeli-born, ex-IDF soldier, and current US mediator Amos Hochstein:

«I think the strongest case people should build in Lebanon is what will work, which line? (...) Lebanon should stop thinking about “Do I have the most legal case? Do I have my most maximum position? Do I want to be the most right?”.»

He adds the need for Lebanon to drop this mentality and to focus on getting something, which «really in the case of Lebanon right now, is nothing» ⁠(01:15).
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🛑 In this video, Hochstein is seen mocking, with a wide grin, Gebran Bassil's offer of ‘Karish for Qana’.
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Today: Explosions are expected to be heard in southern Lebanon in light an Israeli artillery drill that will be firing towards occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms.
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Why haven't you sanctioned any Rabbi (Jew) over their vocal support of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank (Palestine), Golan Heights (Syria), Shebaa farms (Lebanon) and countless Israeli wars such as the 1982 invasion, the intifada, 2006, 2008, 20011, 2012..2021 etc twitter.com/FCDOGovUK/sta…
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Beirut MP Fouad Makhzoumi attended an inter-faith conference in Morocco that hosted Israeli officials. twitter.com/fmakhzoumi/st…
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Armed clashes ongoing in the town of Al-Amayer in Wadi Khaled, Akkar.
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