🗳 The Lebanese Parliament has voted today to postpone once again the municipal elections for one year. It extends the mandates of the incumbent mayors until 31 ⁠May 2024. The reason is a lack of necessary funding at the Ministry of Interior.

French court sentences this innocent Lebanese for 1980 bombing

Lebanese-Canadian professor Hassan Diab was sentenced to life in absentia on 21 ⁠April. He was the only defendant at a trial for the 1980 Paris synagogue bombing that left 4 dead—an attack attributed to the Palestinian PFLP-SO.

“Miscarriage of justice.” His support group notes that Canadian Justice Robert Maranger—who allowed Diab's extradition to France in 2014 in hope of an acquittal—had said France had “a weak case”. Diab was accused over photofits & a passport found in Rome. After 3 years in prison, he was freed in 2018 because his fingerprints don't match with the bomb planter, and witnesses and Lebanese University confirmed he was in Beirut that day to take exams...

French Jewish organizations obtained a new trial, and got this verdict merely one day after the 3-week trial ended. Per Diab's French lawyer, the judges “fear to be accused of laxity in finding the [bomber]”. It was the 1st fatal attack against Jews since WW2.

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⋯ Hassan Diab's Canadian lawyer, Don Bayne, said (00:20):

“This was a trial in which the French investigators themselves came to the court to plead that there was no valid basis for a conviction. That's how bizarre this outcome is.”

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau said the country would “look carefully at next steps”. In 2018, after Diab was released by French authorities, Trudeau said at the time: “I think for Hassan Diab, we have to recognise first of all that what happened to him never should have happened”.

According to a Hezbullah official concerned with aid, Hezbullah supported families throughout the holy month of Ramadan with food supplies and ready meals worth 2.1 million USD.

This is regarding Jabal Amel area.

Earlier yesterday, an Israeli Hermes-450 UAV was spotted over the border area, armed with up to 8 precsion missiles.

For more about the Hermes, check out our detailed paper about it.

Around 1:00 a.m. today, the Israeli army destroyed an unmanned border intelligence post used by the Syrian army and Hezbullah.

Prior to the attack, the Israeli army deployed flyers to warn the army against cooperating with the resistance.

Saudi Arabia evacuated 52 Lebanese diaspora from Sudan.

They will stay in KSA, pending their flight back home.

⋯ Additional footage of the damaged building.

⋯ Earlier this year on 27 March, the Lebanese army arrested one individual from this building manufacturing explosives and in possession of chemical material.

He was connected to another individual in Aramoumn, who confessed about operating for foreign elements.

Video: Additional footage