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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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📰 This morning, an armed robbery attempt failed near Bristol, opposite Ayash Company, by three masked men.

The cashier opened fire on them, killing two of them while the third escaped.
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📈 💰 💵 Gold in US dollar terms is over $2900.

🥇 First time in history.

🔶️ Gold prices jumped more than 1% on Monday to hit a record high, as safe-haven demand surged on fears of a global trade war after U.S. President Donald Trump announced new tariff plans.

🔶️ Trump announced on Sunday plans to impose an additional 25% tariff on all steel and aluminium imports. He also said he will announce reciprocal tariffs this week, matching rates imposed by other countries and applying them immediately.

🔶️ Elsewhere, the amount of gold stored in the London vaults fell 1.7% month on month to 8,535 metric tons worth $771.6 billion in January due to a rush in shipments to the United States, the London Bullion Market Association said.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/gold-hovers-near-all-time-highs-trumps-tariff-threats-lift-safe-haven-demand-2025-02-10/

https://archive.ph/D05tl

🔗 Gold Telegraph
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💰 🇨🇳 A Chinese pilot program to allow insurers to buy gold for the first time will allow billions of dollars of extra investment in the precious metal, adding further impetus to a record-setting rally

🔶️ Ten insurance firms — including PICC Property & Casualty Co. and China Life Insurance Co., two of China’s biggest — will be able to invest as much as 1% of their assets in bullion, in a program that became effective last Friday. That would translate into a potential 200 billion yuan ($27.4 billion) of funds, Minsheng Securities Co. said in a note.

🔶️ Gold has been one of the strongest performing commodities of the new year, as well as in 2024, with the metal hitting successive records. That extended uplift has been powered by the US Federal Reserve cutting rates, and central-bank buying, including purchases from China. Donald Trump’s second term as US president has also added an extra driver, with traders scrambling to adjust to his disruptive moves on trade.

🔶️ The policy tweak makes gold the first commodity that Chinese insurers have been explicitly permitted to invest in. China has restricted insurance funds from taking positions in assets without “stable cash returns,” and limits the amount they can put into bonds and stocks.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-10/china-frees-possible-27-billion-from-insurers-to-invest-in-gold

https://archive.ph/1QKyh
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🇮🇱l🇺🇸 Channel 12 Israel, citing sources: Netanyahu asked Trump to postpone the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon until after February 18

Btw do note, that the people's sacrifice on 26-Jan and the towns they liberated ensured that the IDF couldn't anymore send large forces deeper into Lebanon or to new areas.

Notice how no new incursions in the past week?

We'll see what happens by 18-Feb. Give everything time and understand the stakes
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🇱🇧l🇺🇸 On the other hand, officials familiar with US intel tell Al Arabiya English the Lebanese army’s deployment along border w/Israel significantly increased over the last few weeks.

US envoy in Beirut today said Trump admin was committed to the Israeli withdrawal by Feb. 18.

She retweeted this announcement on her Twitter account (her account is literally a pro-israel fangirl one). However, she un-retweeted it.

She shared this instead about the Lebanese army deployment: https://x.com/LebarmyOfficial/status/1888576743268814869
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📰 Additionally, the Israeli army radio reports that so far, Israel was told to withdraw and that so far, they don't have permission from the USA to stay.

This was reported by the Israeli army radio:

- https://news.1rj.ru/str/moriahdoron/19277
- https://news.1rj.ru/str/moriahdoron/19278
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🇺🇸l🇮🇱 In response to the Israeli Channel 12, the Trump admin issues the following statement

Israel did not ask the US to extend the deadline for Israeli forces to fully withdraw from Lebanon, which is set for Feb. 18, per White House source
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📸 New Israeli demolitions of civilian houses and villas in south Lebanon
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🇺🇸l🇮🇱 President Trump: if all Israeli hostages are not released from Gaza by noon on Saturday then “all hell is going to break loose.

- Trump: It ultimately depends on Israel they can cancel the ultimatum

📰 Trump to FOX: “I’d like to knock down all the buildings in Gaza, no more Hamas”
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🇺🇸 🇯🇴 🇪🇬 Trump Says He Could Cut Aid to Jordan and Egypt Over Gaza Takeover Plan

🔶️ The president turned up the pressure on the two nations to agree to his plan for them to house the Palestinian population of Gaza and said the Palestinians would not have the right to return to the territory.

🔶️ President Trump said on Monday that he could cut aid to Jordan and Egypt if they refused his demand to permanently take in most Palestinians from Gaza, substantially increasing the pressure on key allies in the region to back his audacious proposal to relocate the entire population of the territory in order to redevelop it.

🔶️ “If they don’t agree, I would conceivably withhold aid,” Mr. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office a day ahead of a meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan.

Both Jordan and Egypt have rejected any suggestion that Palestinians be relocated to their countries.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/politics/trump-jordan-egypt-gaza-development.html

https://archive.ph/6vBKs by @CIG_telegram
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📸 The commemorative photos of the new Lebanese government was taken at Baaba palace in the presence of the Lebanese president and Parliament speaker
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🇱🇧 Work now is in regards to writing the ministerial statement, where for months now, the Lebanese opponents of Hezbullah wanted to remove any mention of resistance or the phrase "Army, people, resistance".

Most likely they will fail, and some sort of similar phrase with similar meaning will be used.

The drafting committee, consists of 5 ministers: Yassin Jaber, Tarek Mitri, Ghassan Salameh, Fayez Rasamni, and Paul Marcos
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🇱🇧l🇮🇱 Speaker Nabih Berri confirms that he is not reassured and has great fear that Israel will not commit to withdrawing on February 18.

He said: "If Israel remains occupying some of the ruling hills, this means that the occupation of the hills is ongoing and nothing has changed, which we cannot accept this."
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🇮🇱l🇱🇧 A drone was possibility intercepted over Naqoura, as an explosion was reported in the sky
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🇱🇧l🇸🇾 The New Syrian army executed Khader Karam Zaiter, the nephew of MP Ghazi Zaiter, after kidnapping him from his town of Bloza inside Syrian territory and threw him in the al-Arid neighborhood on the Syrian-Lebanese border

Two other members of the family are kidnaped with threats to execute them.
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بالفيديو | سلسلة #أوصيكم | فاصل رقم 3 - "شرط وجود المقاومة"

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#الإعلام_الحربي
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🇮🇱l🇵🇸 In response to the Israeli aggression in Gaza and delaying the terms of the ceasefire in light of the ongoing Israeli claims that they will go back to war to destroy Gaza after the prisoner exchange end...
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🇮🇱l🇵🇸 Jewish criminal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video statement: "If Hamas does not return our hostages by Saturday at noon, the ceasefire will end, and the IDF will return to intensive fighting until Hamas is completely defeated."

Netanyahu says that following Hamas's announcement to postpone the release of hostages, he instructed the IDF to gather forces in the Gaza Strip and around it.

"This action is taking place at this hour. It will be completed soon," he says.
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In very brief, the current U.S. administration is the biggest and worse threat facing the Palestinian cause in its history

Not only because the U.S. has power, but because its leverage is enough to keep Israel fighting.

There is enough Jews to through into war, and with enough weapons and money, Israel can commit war crimes and mass exodus on the Palestinians. They have the means and they have the only legitimacy they ask for, the American.

Only two things can stop this project and fail it. Two and only two:

1- The Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank staying in their lands no matter how bad the sacrifices are.

2- Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia refusing to accept the emigration (forced exodus) of Palestinians to their lands.

If either of these aren't available, the U.S.'s Jewish plan will succeed.

Critical times ahead of us, with the resistance axis at its weakest and most vulnerable and the Israeli-axis at its height.

Hamas knows well that what they did was correct. Unless they ensure enough aid and tents are coming into Gaza, the means of the survival of the people won't be available. Without the ability to survive the people can no longer stay in their land.

And Hamas knows, Israelis want to get the hostages then resume the war and commit a new massacre and exodus.

Its sad that they haven't been satisfied yet with how much Muslim and Arab blood they have spilled through wrongdoing.

Its sad that some don't see how evil the U.S administration is in all its faces and the dehumanization it showcase.

Its sad some people still talk of Peace. #admin
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📸 After a 12 month support front, after a 2 month war, after a 2 month ceasefire...

... The inherently evil Jew continues to find more civilian houses and villas to demolish in controlled explosions in the town of Yaroun
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In very very  brief also, I would like to discuss something.

Some people, especially opponents (more like enemies) have memorized a few technical and military phrases and started to judge non-state actors (as in Hezbullah), presiding over a fake throne of knowledge and better understanding than the latter...

...and had they even been that knowledge they wouldn't be on X writing theories, they would have been the heads of militaries or to say at least working as some sort of leads in these domains.

The way they are trying to tell us that "oh Israel is an all seeing God, and that how pathetic they (Hezbullah) are for not knowing Israel can see and hear and intercept X and Y"

The thing is, after humbling yourself and your knowledge, Israel is not an all seeing God, and the lastest mishaps that faced Hezbullah are not fully attributed to the advances in technology as a sole contributing factor.

I say this, because the technology in regards to ELINT anr SIGNIT is not new, rather decades old and the applications were already in use long ago. The only contributing factor yo the new shift of intelligence gathering isn't the new smart AI, but rather the abundance of information that is available now thanks to the spread of electronics, phones, smart gadgets and so on.

The more data available, the more the processing services are able to collect information, and based on this information, the IDF can act because they have the reach and means

This is were OPSEC plays a role, and you try to deny the IDF data, but not all data. That's impossible and not only unheard of, it is not humanly possible.

To explain this point, Hezbullah will not be able to hide the face of every member. Nor will they hide the voice frequency of every member, nor hide their known local town houses, nor their social workers, nor nor nor etc

The guy's tweet on X focused on attacking Hezbullah for putting a public number for journalists to contact to coordinate their credentials on 23-Feb during the grand funeral. He started to use fancy words about the phone now being exposed, and everyone who call is.

Not only is this an exaggeration and fear mongering, Hezbullah's actions are not wrong. A public phone number for this sole role, which is carried out by a public media figure to coordinate with public media figures is normal and expected

Hezbullah cannot send pigeons to send letters to journalists, nor can they hide such. Hezbullah isn't a group of 20 people whom all should stay secret. The same details that the IDF can gain from this, is the same that Hezullah can gain from in Israel because those are public data for the IDF, who is one of the best armies in terms of opsec and secrecy.

The only difference? The IDF has the means to work on this language and the IDF is criminal enough to target meida figures (war crime)

Another misconception, is that during the funeral the IDF will use drones to scan all the people's phones and know who was there and trace them through the local cell towers, etc etc. Again, that's fear mongering.

How Hezbullah can do opsec, how Hezbullah can deny the IDF data, is another topic.. however we should understand that there is no feasible way to make the IDF in the blind

But there are ways and there needs to be effort to deny the IDF data that makes difference, that impacts, that devastates. There needs to be aggressive rules to enforce and there needs to be aggressive search for spies.

At any given point, as there is someone sinning God somewhere on earth, there is a new piece of data (useful or useless) reaching the IDF

For that, feel well when you hear news about a spy being captured and be nervous when months (weeks) when spies aren't.

The actions of Iran and Hezbullah in the 1980's blinded the CIA, but they got stabbed from the back by the Mossad eventually.

And to tell you something, what happened to Hezbullah in 2024 was an accumulation of things from 2005 to 2023. The data knowledge wasn't born in one day and one night.

I just pray, Hezbullah so fixing this asap. #admin
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