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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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The Special Tribunal for Lebanon: The Pre-Trial Judge adjourned the session and will resume after a 30-minute break.

Note: I think this is the reopening of Ayyash case by his defense to prove his innocence.
New information: Hariri suggested that the Interior Ministry go to the Orthodox, the finance to the Sunnis and the Shiite take the defense.
Today, Wednesday, the Israeli army presented to Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi a preliminary investigation into an incident of stealing weapons from a military base in the north. 1/
Chief of Staff Kochavi indicated that a preliminary investigation revealed that the accident was considered very serious, and a number of failures, defects and errors were found. 2/

Translated from Hebrew by: @YounesZaatari
Kochavi ordered the formation of an investigation committee headed by an officer with the rank of colonel, whose task is to examine these aspects in depth, and it must present its conclusions within about a month. 3/
Bunch of kids with extra time on their hand.

IDF has no right to attack Syria, and Israel has no right to object the Iranian and Lebanese presence in Syria since they were invited by the Syrian government.

Arrogant lying army of foreigners in our region. https://t.co/A2GydGcGcn
This is simply IDF saying, we acknowledge all the attacks we did illegally in Syria and we are going to do more, because who cares about international law.
634 new COVID-19 cases and 7 deaths.

- 12,401 tests were done (a record), including 10,481 locally. Positive date decrease greatly to 5.9% https://t.co/Ws760M0B1s
My test came back negative too :) https://t.co/m1ma2Uxyp7
Note: it isn't a small restaurant, it's a huge restaurant that funds many orphanages in Lebanon.
Heavy IDF drone presence reported over south Lebanon, especially Bint Jbeil and Marjaaiyon.
A meeting in the Pine Palace, which brought together the official of foreign relations in Hezbullah, Ammar Al-Mousawi, and the French ambassador, Bruno Fuchier, in which they discussed the French initiative and the file of forming the government. 1/
In it, Hezbollah reiterated its stance on naming their ministers and not being named by Adib.

Accordingly, the deadlock still exists.
🇮🇱 Israel reported 4,950 new COVID-19 cases and 16 deaths on Tuesday, raising the country's total to 169,352 cases (2,874,134 tests) with 1,163 deaths. That's 18,413 cases and 126 deaths observed per 1 million people. https://t.co/tDKQxumF3m
MP Hussein Hajj Hassan: The concessions that the Americans are asking for are giving up an area of ​​860 km from the maritime oil borders of Lebanon to Israel and settling Palestinian and Syrian refugees here. https://t.co/u56Y0nrTte
Western diplomatic sources: The issue with Hezbullah and Amal (regarding naming their ministers) was solved after the meeting between Emie, Fuchsia, and Hezbollah, and the government may be born tomorrow.

Source: @Ameen_media
Israel Today Newspaper:

"The commander of the IDF's northern region, Amir Baram sends a sharp and clear warning to Hezbollah, "If Israeli soldiers are killed, we will respond in an unusual way."

Baram warned that if a soldier was wounded, we would go for days of fighting." https://t.co/RzEEynHYKC
US Navy Boeing P-8A Poseidon is lurking the Lebanese coast facing Beirut. https://t.co/jalqXhNRLQ
A video surfaced online showing two men claiming to be from the Arab tribes military wing vowing revenge against the Shia of Khaldeh and promising punishment to Ali Chibli and others who they accuse of being Hezbullah officials in Khaldeh. https://t.co/CjS61s2yrV