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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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📹 The IDF also released rare footage of their controlled demolition of intact civilian houses and building in south Lebanon.
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❗️ Taking advantage of the renewed presence in Lebanon, the IDF demolitioned a new set of houses and villas that have survived the war and ceasefire in Yaroun.

Israeli soldiers also burned down a lot of houses in several border towns.
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📸 To comfort the Jews to coming back to northern occupied Palestine, the Israeli army released a statement by the commander of the homefront about the efforts made to talk with the community and the new security measures.

This included additional fences, new border posts, new fortified rooms and additional security
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📸 The last photo of the head of Hezbullah's telecom array, who was injured in the pager attack, lost a hand a few fingers but continued work despite the pain.

He was assassinated a few days later.

He was once a fighter, a prisoner in Israel, then an injured commander, and finally a martyr
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🇮🇱l🇺🇸 Despite a general Israeli wish to end the war and bring all the hostages back, after Netanyahu stopped the negotiations for the second phase of the ceasefire Trump now announces that he doesn’t have guarantees Gaza ceasefire will hold.

The U.S. and Netanyahu are now inclined to resume the bloodshed and massacres, in a new disgusting show of disregard to human lives.
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💵 Lebanon receives $300M+ per year of aid from the U.S. government between USAID and other programs (education, health, economic development, infrastructure, humanitarian aid). That's upwards of 1.5% of GDP.

Some data points:

2024: $360M humanitarian aid
2023: $220M humanitarian aid
2022: $240M humanitarian aid

Water sector: $207.5M
Municipal capacity building: $200M
Private sector development: $113M
Lebanon Investment Initiative: $38M

2020-Present: $1.6B+ (incl. education assistance like scholarships, teacher training, etc.)

By Mike Azar on X
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🇱🇧l🇮🇱 An large Israeli force penetrated Kfar Shouba and headed towards Kfar Hamam town despite the deployment of the Lebanese army in both towns.
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Regarding internal politics about government formation, some points:
Between the Shiites and Nawaf.. and the delay in forming the government:

- The Shiites demanded the finance portfolio based on the Taif Agreement, so Salam responded

- Salam demanded the names of ministers and the possibility of changing ministries, so the duo agreed and presented a group of names, more than 6 of which were rejected, so the duo agreed and changed the names

- Salam demanded a Shiite minister to be named with the participation of the President of the Republic exclusively, so the duo agreed

This flexibility from both parties (Hezbullah and Amal) builds a country, while the campaign against now on social media and irl by the Lebanese forces party, the sovereignists, and some of the changemakers is nothing but the result of disappointment after they thought that with Salam's arrival, the duo would be excluded, not caring about building the state, but rather trying to move towards eliminating the other.

They wanted to get a lot of seats in the government based on the results on the last elections, but expected Nawaf to exclude Hezullah and Amal despite getting the most votes per party and collectively...

Today, the problem has become clear in the delay in forming the government, as the Sunnis without Saad Hariri cannot agree on the portfolios, and the Christian representation is stuck between the parties as they fight over the biggiest share.
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🪙 The value of Lebanon's gold reserves went up ~$1 billion in just the last two weeks. Lebanon's gold value was about $16 billion in 2020.

Today it's nearly $26 billion. BDL only needs a $49.8 billion bail-out now instead of the $50.7 billion it needed two weeks ago!

By Mark Azar on X
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🇱🇧l🇮🇱 On the night of February 4, 1997, two Israeli Air Force Yasur helicopters collided with each other over the Hula Valley while transporting fighters from the Nahal Brigade, the Golani Brigade, the Egoz Special Unit, the Armored Corps, and others.

All 73 Israeli soldiers onboard were killed, making it one of the factors that increased pressure to end the Israeli occupation in south Lebanon.
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🇱🇧l🇮🇱 Israeli drones targeted health workers for the third time today while they were pulling out the bodies of martyrs in the town of Aita al Shaab.

So not only an attack that is considered an aggression, not only a violation of a ceasefire, it is an attack on civil defense...a war crime. During what? During a humanitarian mission to retrieve bodies that have been there for months!
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Our great Sheikh, the Hujjat al-Islam and Muslims, Naim Qasim, may God protect him: Imam Khamenei

The letter is an announcement that Shiekh Naim is the highest religious representative of Ayatollah Sayyed Ali in Lebanon and he has a permission to collect Zakat, Khoms, etc and has permission to use and spend the money on what is suitable (aka Hezbullah)

He also advices him on life and Taqwa
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🇱🇧 The Weniyat Al-Dawla page published news stating that the Lebanese security forces arrested young men from the Al-Assaf family over the evacuation of a property they own to expand the grave of His Eminence Martyr Sayyed Hassan...

... following a dispute that occurred between Hezbulah's security committee and the Al-Assaf family regarding the compensation that they will pay to vacate the property.

Accordingly, Hezbullah's committee would like to clarify the following:

- First, the party has no relation to the dispute over the aforementioned properties.

- Second: The party currently has no intention of expanding the shrine, and it is known that a large property has been allocated for this purpose.

- Third: The party is not negotiating to pay any compensation for properties that it does not own.

Accordingly, the dispute is between the honorable Al-Assaf family and the property owners - including the Burj Al-Barajneh Municipality - who filed a lawsuit to evict them with the competent judiciary
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The IDF is expected to withdraw fully from Lebanon in 14 days, following the extension of the ceasefire.

This includes a complete withdrawal to the blue line.

The Lebanese government and president should start putting pressure early on, or risk either kneeling to Israel and accepting additional concessions or finding themselves obliged to treat the IDF as an occupation then show everyone that they are not up to the responsibility to protect Lebanon.
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🇱🇧l🇶🇦 The Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs visited Lebanon today and met with various officials, including our new President Joseph Aoun
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🇱🇧l🇮🇱 Today, at approximately 11:45 am in Taybeh town, the IDF called UNIFIL to inform two foreign photographers including Courtney Bonneaui that if they don't vacate the premises, they will be shot dead.

Taybeh is now under full Lebanese army control, and the IDF no longer has presence there.

Worse, the IDF is fully expected to withdraw from Lebanon in 14 days, yet is threatening foreigners let alone locals. Imagine!
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❗️The Jewish army has carried out a large demolition of civilian houses and villas in the town of Yaroun
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🇱🇧l🇶🇦 The Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs visited Lebanon today and met with various officials, including our new President Joseph Aoun
🇱🇧l🇶🇦 Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar from Baabda Palace:

- We affirmed the State of Qatar's commitment to continue supporting the Lebanese Armed Forces

- Qatar will be present in the file of rebuilding Lebanon

- We reject Israel's violations of the terms of the ceasefire agreement and the violation of Lebanese airspace

- We stress the need to implement Resolution 1701 for Lebanon to regain its sovereignty
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آخر ما كتبه الشهيد الهاشمي السيّد هاشم صفي الدين (رض) قبيل ساعات من شهادته المباركة.
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‏"ولعلّي لاحقٌ به عمّا قريب شهيداً في أثره"

من رسالة الشهيد السيد هاشم صفي الدين في رثاء سيد شهداء الأُمّة
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