⋯ The Israeli army targeted Aleppo International Airport.

Three impacts are confirmed.

⋯ 🚨 Explosions reported in Damascus.

A pressing thought.

A war with Lebanon stipulates isolation of Hezbullah's supply routes.

Destroying Syria's main airports is step number 1.

The USD exchange rate rose to 35,600 LBP, nearing its all time high.

One week after the video of King Mohammed ⁠VI sparked outrage and speculation, the palace reacted via its spokesman, Abdelhak Lamrini:

“The king was walking through the streets of Paris, and when he turned around to greet people, he almost lost his balance and leaned on his bodyguards. He didn’t have a glass of wine, but a bottle of water in his hand.”

The video is genuine and new, but Lamrini warned that it is intended to “tarnish the king’s image”. Moroccan website Hespress had immediately blamed “a new Algerian attempt to insult King Mohammed ⁠VI and a systematic move to attack the Kingdom of Morocco”.

It remains unclear why the king was late at night dressed in blue denim in the streets of Paris, but the Spanish newspaper El Español noted that he celebrated his 59th birthday on 21 ⁠August. This date is considered a national holiday, and is called the “Youth Festival”, but for the fourth consecutive year there were no official celebrations in Morocco.

Disruption in the landlines in Beirut is reported, notably in some areas in Beirut's southern suburbs.

US steps up efforts to avert conflict between Israel and Lebanon

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⋯ Over the past few days, the US mediator in the maritime negotiations between Lebanon and Israel, Amos Hochstein, has intensified his meetings with all concerned parties in a final push to secure a deal before 15 September.

⋯ Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar reported on 1 September that Hochstein held a meeting with the national security adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss the role of French companies in Lebanon’s energy market.

⋯ Hochstein urged the European leaders, notably France, to support French multinational petroleum company Total in announcing its readiness to operate in the southern Lebanese maritime blocs.

The Lebanese Minister of Energy in the caretaker government, Walid Fayyad, told Al-Joumhouria newspaper that neither Total nor the Italian oil company, Eni, can work in the Lebanese blocks without obtaining guarantees from the US and Tel Aviv.

⋯ As a result of this reality, Fayyad stressed the importance of the equation set by the Secretary-General of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah, who announced that “either both countries extract gas, or neither do”.

Hochstein is expected to visit West Asia next week, and will land in Lebanon on 7 September after concluding his meeting with Israeli officials in light of the new developments.

One of the detainees, a Syrian, has been killed under torture by officers from Lebanese State Security.

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Story (English): thecradle.co/Article/news/15135

A Turkish army naval ship docked today in Haifa port at an Israeli army base.

The ship is part of a NATO mission in Israel

The Israeli occupation army fired two sound bombs at a young man who approached the technical fence in the outskirts of the town of Hula.

American intelligence officer representing the US embassy at the funeral of the father of Major General Abbas Ibrahim "unknowingly" tried to shake hand of the head of Hezbullah's liason office,Wafiq Safa.

Safa ignored him.

Someone forgot to do his homework.

In the past 4 months, the Israeli security establishment arrested more than 1,200 Palestinian youth from the West Bank on suspicion that they are part of the Palestinian resistance.

Explosions are expected to be heard in south Lebanon as the Israeli army starts a 3-day drill on the Lebanese border.

70 Lebanese migrants are stranded at sea in their makeshift boat off the Maltese and Italian coasts.

They are appealing for help.

The commander of the UNIFIL forces in Lebanon informed the Lebanese authorities of an Israeli message, which indicates that the Israeli Army will shoot without any warning at any Lebanese citizen who approaches the border fence.

This comes as a result of the increased provocations from local Lebanese to the Israeli army bases on the border area.

In previos years, the Lebanese army used to restrict civilian access to bases' external walls.