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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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During a protest that attacked Byblos Bank today, one of the organizers told another to shout “Jaafar” instead of “Charbel”, a protestor's actual name, to imply that Lebanese Shia are the ones behind the destruction of a bank in a Christian-majority area.
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The Shia Islamic Council:

"There is a need to educate Lebanese families of all honorable sects and religions, to reject all forms of homosexuality that contradicts divine nature."
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UAE is expected to resume issuing visas to Lebanese soon, after a brief halt due to an unknown trigger a few weeks ago.
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The Lebanese army continues to crackdown on a gang in Hours'la in Beqaa.

The gang is responsible for killing 3 Lebanese army soldiers, kidnapping, drug dealing, and theft.
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🔴 The Israeli army received an offer to sell up to 200-300 of its Merkava-2 and Merkava-3 tanks to two countries, including a European one.

The Merkava tanks were used in the invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the war in 2006.

The tanks are vulnerable to RPGs and to ATGMs, unlike the Merkava-4.
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US president Joe Biden's pick for counterterrorism coordinator, Elizabeth Richard, is facing a severe backlash by the republicans, who accuse her of failing to counter Hezbullah during her tenure as ambassador to Lebanon and funding Lebanese security services (army and police).
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⋯ The campaign is spearheaded by Ted Cruz who accuses her of funding Hezbullah and groups allied to it.

Additionally, he accuses the Western-trained and funded Lebanese armed forces of killing Amer Fakhoury, a US citizen, who worked with Israel during the occupation era.
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Israeli settlers on the border area in Lebanon are protesting the continuous controlled-detonation of mines in Lebanon.

The shockwaves led to the damaging of few windows and solar panels.

The mines are all Israeli, set during their occupation era between 1978-2000.
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Fakhoury died from cancer, while in the US. He was only arrested briefly due to his documented torture and murder of several Lebanese in Khiyam prison.

Remarkably, US republicans didn't bat an eye when the Israeli army equitied a soldier for the murder of a US citizen in Israel.
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The Saudi Foreign Minister forced his Iranian counterpart to change the room where they will carry their press conference in Iran, because of the picture of Qassem Soleimani.

The room with Soleimani's picture is the main conference room in the Iranian MFA.
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The Israeli army attached a water bottle to a stolen goat from Lebanon, wrapped in a hand written letter threatening against approaching the border with Israel.
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Today's events in West Bank marks the most successful IED attack against the Israeli army in the West Bank after the Intifada.

About 7 Israeli army soldiers were wounded lightly-moderately by a 20kg home-made explosive.

It took the army half a day to save the soldiers.
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⋯ Additionally, the Israeli army was forced to use an Apache helicopter to assist in the attack, for the first time in 2 decades.

The tail of the helicopter was damaged by light fire from the resistance.
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