🔴 Despite the kidnapping being criminal, Saudi media intentionally added Hezbullah into the matter, calling Beirut's Suburbs as a “Hezbullah stronghold”.

The Lebanese minister of Interior confirms the Saudi citizen was never in Dahyeh. He was kidnapped from Zaytouna bay, in greater Beirut.

The Lebanese army has started to raid Shrawneh neighborhood in Baalbek in search of the Saudi citizen. The neighborhood is plagued with mafias and drug dealers.

Fatima Matar died a few days ago without knowing the fate of her husband Saeed, who has been missing since 1985 during the civil war.

She and hundreds of other families still await the return of their fathers, husbands, sons...

🔴 The Lebanese Army was able to locate and free the Saudi citizen form captivity in a location on the Lebanese-Syrian border.

Four have been arrested, and search continues.

⋯ The group that kidnapped the Saudi citizen is headed by a drug dealer known as “Abu Saleh”, and it consists of 7 people, according to MTV.

📹 Earlier in June 2022, the army clashed with this drug cartel, and demolished the house of its leader (video). One Lebanese soldier was killed then.

Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdullah Bouhabib:

"We have not received any official communication that indicates a decision by the UAE authorities to halt granting visas to the Lebanese."

Clans and families of Baalbek-Hermel:

"The kidnapping of the Saudi Arabian citizen is a cowardly and despicable act that has nothing to do with the morals and customs of the clans.

We call on the security services to strike with an iron fist against these outlaws."

5/17 members of FPM parliamentary bloc refused Gebran Basil's push to vote for Jihad Azour

This situation promoted ex-president Aoun to attend a meeting to support Basil

Aoun became president by the support of Hezbullah, and is today sabotaging the Hezbullah-supported candidate

The body of the retired Mossad agent, 50 y/o, that died in an Italian lake while swimming, landed today in Israel.

He was with two Italian intelligence/military officers.

On Monday, Lebanese and Iraqi diaspora clashed in a street in the Brazilian capital.

It started when a Lebanese family visited an Iraqi shop on that street, demanding a debt to be paid.

It escalated into a quarrel and then stabbing.

The Lebanese agency for traffic continues to halt issuing driver licences or renewing existing one for 8th month and counting.

Currently they posses only 15,000 license cards, to be issued as replacement for lost licences exclusively.

No resolution is expected.

The head of the Lebanese Forces Party, Samir Geagea, announced an agreement with the Free Patriotic Movement (Gebran Basil) & opposition to nominate former minister Jihad Azour for the presidency

Parliamentary bloc seats (w/o independents)

- FPM has: 16
- LF has: 14

⋯ Geagea stressed that Azour will get more than 65 votes along with the votes of the Free Patriotic Movement.

65 votes are enough to be elected in a second parliamentary session.

Who is Jihad Azour, the nominee for the Lebanese presidency by the majority of Lebanese Christian political parties and opposition?

He served as Lebanon's minister of finance under Fouad Saniora's government from 2005 to 2008, during which 11 billion USD was unaccounted for.