Lebanese News and Updates – Telegram
Lebanese News and Updates
75.5K subscribers
30.2K photos
8.27K videos
36 files
5.76K links
Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
Download Telegram
Are all USA accusations true and not just meant to target the community of Hezbullah?

A few years ago (2011), the USA sanctioned a Lebanese bank called "The Lebanese Canadian bank", for allegedly having ties to Hezbullah.

You can notice the standard accusations.
However, it took them 8 years later after the bank closed and Lebanese jobs lost, and money paid to the USA (102 million) to say:

The bank is not connected to Hezbullah and didn't finance it. (Case lost to people wanting $$) https://t.co/l5neK54Zte
The same year, the USA then sanctioned another Lebanese bank called "Jammal Trust Bank", accusing it of financing Hezbullah and helping it in its activity. https://t.co/8tZKckaFt9
Yet what's funny about this case, that costed 400 families their jobs, is that USAID announced a partnership with the bank in June 2018 and the U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon boosted this on Twitter.

So what exactly changed in few months other then U.S trying to suffocate Lebanese? https://t.co/Z4Wwk9qVUt
Conclusion: unnamed intelligence sources and American reports about "Hezbullah's banks" are not trustworthy at all. END
S&P downgrades #Lebanon bonds to default after missed payments. https://t.co/xaKqCQAT83
The Lebanese army said that it has so far received 192 aircraft from 42 countries and 5 ships carrying donations following the explosion in the #Beirut port. https://t.co/DFoicjYxa3
An unidentified car opened fire in the Kaftun area, Koura district, killing three people. An army intelligence patrol came to the scene of the accident and work is underway to pursue the car to arrest the shooter.

The dead are: Alaa Fares, George Sarkis, and Fadi Sarkis.

They were members of the SSNP.
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Confrontations between Qamra family and Bu Hamdan family due to some sectarian strife, with some bullets fired in the air.

This is one of about 2-3 incident today when some locals objected the hanging of Ashoura banners in areas that host people from different sects. https://t.co/32xt0bpLuQ
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Another video surfaced of the funeral, the first with few cursing Nasrallah, of the mourners (Amal) chanting pro Nasrallah slogans to put an end to the sedition.
Report: The investigation ended as Musa Khalil admitted that he was the one who fired his pistol at Hussein Khalil, while the second detainee, Abdul-Asaad, stated that he had fired his AK only in the air.

The two detainees were referred to the Military Police.
It adds that he have shot him by mistake. It is still unclear at my end.
Exchange rate today 1$ =

Lebanon : 7,100 - 7,200
Syria: 2,000 - 2,075

1,000 Syrian = 3,500 Lebanese

One gold coin (English) = 437$