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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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📸 Former Ambassador of Japan to Lebanon Takeshi Okubo: “Finally, I arrived in Beirut. My second country gave me a warm welcome.” 🎉 Mr Okubo served a three-year term in Lebanon until Nov 2022.
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The Israeli army fired teargas and stun grenades at MP Qassem Hashem and a number of reporters, during their tour of an area in Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms.

The group suffered minor injuries as a result.
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⋯ Photos of the aftermath of the incident, which took place in occupied Qafwa farm. Lebanese MP Qassem Hashem was lightly injured while avoiding the Israeli attacks. One individual was reportedly treated for minor head injuries.

The UN and Lebanese army arrived on the scene.
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An Israeli soldier stole a camera base owned by "Al-Ghad" Tav channel, after assaulting journalists inside Qafwa farm, one of the Israeli-occupied Lebanese Shebaa farms.
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State Security arrested a group of Syrians for the crime of "facilitating prostitution, having illegal group sexual relations, and exchanging wives".
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Under pressure from the US, the Lebanese minister of foreign affairs, Abdullah Bou-Habib, stepped down from leading the Lebanese Ministerial delegation that planned to visit Syria to discuss the refugee crisis.
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Yesterday, members of Hezbullah took down the surveillance cameras placed by the IDF to monitor the roads inside Kafarkela and Udaisi villages in Lebanon.
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Iran's leader Sayyed Ali Khamenie sends condolences to Hezbullah's SG Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah over the passing away of Lebanese scholar Shiekh Afif al-Nabulsi.

Nabulsi was burried yesterday in his village after a large funeral.
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Report: The 7th Armored Brigade of the Israeli army & an armored battalion of the US military completed a maneuver in Wadi Ara in Umm al-Fahm in Palestine, simulating the Lebanese village Bint Jbeil.

The maneuver simulated a joint combat operation against Hezbullah.
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Kuwait acquitted 13 of the charge of financing Hezbullah.
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Israeli PM Netanyahu breaks down in anger, in a leaked recording, expressing his anger at the IDF for failing to stop the mutiny.

"Our detterence is being weakened against our enemies"

Hundreds of soldiers in important roles left their units in protest of the judicial reforms.
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After a sudden increase of the USD exchange rate to 105,000 LBP, ending months of stability, it decreases back down to 92,000 LBP.

The fluctuation was allegedly caused by a bank's attemp to purchase USD from the market at any rate.
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No truth to the alleged claims that Hezbullah is preparing for something at 9:00 pm.

In reality, it's just the release of the Ridwan forces promotional video that was delayed, from a few days ago.
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The Israeli security establishment is in shambles after up to a 100 reserve pilot, who play a crucial role in the airforce's operational readiness, announced they will suspend their participation, in protest to the judicial reforms.
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The Saudi Ambassador, Walid al-Bukhari, left this morning to Doha to participate in the five-nation meeting, which is discussing the Lebanese presidential election crisis.
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Ainata, July 2006 Memories:

On this hill, Hezbollah attacked 12 Merkava tanks during the IDF's attempt to advance from the hill towards Wadi al-Tiri to reach Hadatha site

The IDF was then unable to evacuate the wounded and withdraw its dead except through helicopters
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🔴 Hezbullah released a 6-minute video of its Ridwan Forces in combat simulating an assault on Israeli army units, revealing several new weapons including first-time use of a suicide drone against a mock-up Merkava-4 tank.
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⋯ The video ends with the Ridwan Force taking over the Golani Brigade's war room, and destroying it.

I suspect the last scene isn't for detonation of the base but rather a SVIED (suicide/martyrdom) vehicle attack.

“Malik” is a good hint: 01:20

Hezbullah might be teasing the activation of those units.
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