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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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🔁 RT @marcowenjones: "Qatar funds Hezbollah" is the number one trend in Lebanon. The reason it is trending is key Saudi influencers. Once again, @monther72 is the most influential on the hashtag, along with @KSA24 and @AJELNEWS24 - all Saudi accounts. Lebanese social media sovereignty does not exist https://t.co/Eye91W7Yqj
- Kataeb Party MPs announced their resignation from the parliament.

Kataeb party has 3 MP out of 128.
- More than 60 people are still missing in Beirut, four days after the massive explosion at the port, a health ministry official tells @AFP.
- Independent MP Paula Yacoubian has decided to resign from the parliament.

- Independent MP Makhzomi is planning to form a coalition in the parliament and resign.
- The Turkish Vice President, at the head of a high-ranking delegation of ministers, arrives at Beirut Airport.
- Reporters started to gather near the naval base, ahead of their visit to the place of the explosion with the Lebanese army.

There is currently still 60 people missing there. https://t.co/0iNlGfl7G4
- Iraqi fuel aid started to arrive to Lebanon through Syria. https://t.co/Eriv2cPnMg
🔁 RT @amalsaad_lb: So many laborers like Ali Msheik were victims of the Lebanese state’s criminal negligence. He was a porter at Beirut Port who earned around 24000LL or $3.50 daily. He died while working an extra shift so he could earn 5000LL, around 70 cents. He leaves 3 children behind him. https://t.co/1aePlyQLzS
- Turkish Vice President Fuad Oktay from Baabda: We assured President Aoun that Turkey is always on the side of Lebanon and its people, and we will provide all assistance, solidarity, and Turkish relief teams have been working from the first moments in the port.
- Aktay: Turkish rescue teams are working in the port of Beirut, and two field hospitals have been set, 400 tons of wheat and food was sent, and we came in a private jet loaded with medical supplies.
- Aktay: We got information that all the glass in houses, homes and buildings in Beirut and the suburbs of Beirut are broken, and we know that there are great needs, and Turkey is ready to help and provide Lebanon with all these requirements.
- He also asked Aoun why a Turkish burn treating hospital is not active in Sidon city, stressing Turkey's will to help building the port.

Note: That hospital isn't functioning due to political pressure from Bahia Al Hariri. https://t.co/xtKmUTOK9O
New reports: "Current security reports are indicating that the ammonium nitrate stored in that hanger has been being sold for years on the Lebanese and Syrian markets, with reports indicating it was used in the explosions that Dahyeh Beirut witnessed between 2014 and 2015".
- This Syrian child is called Rayan al Saadi. His father Mohammad al Saadi died during the explosion while his mother Mona al Nahhas is in intensive care unit in Dar al-Shifa hospital.

He is in the police station in Achrafiyeh. Any relative who recognizes him should go there. https://t.co/DYkT7klHaI
- Lebanon: The Syrian Embassy in Beirut announces 43 martyrs killed in the Beirut explosion, in an unconcluded toll. https://t.co/GftZAC7V3Z
To help Ali's family who has no other source of income, kindly contact his wife: 71233967.

She is currently living with her 3 kids in a temporary shelter in Beqaa. https://t.co/EptRc85ox0 https://t.co/NKLkB7SqoR
- Holland: With great sadness we announce that Hedwig Waltmans-Mollier, spouse of Dutch ambassador Jan Waltmans, has passed away this morning in Beirut. Our heartfelt condoleances go out to the the family, friends and colleagues.https://t.co/hFb6cohxvO
- President Aoun received a call from the British Prime Minister who conveyed to him Queen Elizabeth's and the British people's condolences for the victims of the explosion in the Beirut port, confirming his country's support for the friendly Lebanese people.