Unconfirmed reports of an explosion in Beqaa.

- Can be anything from a security incident, to a tire or a gas canister explosion, to Lebanese army training.

- (Update 22:30) It was RPGs fired in the air, celebrating the release of someone from prison.

The Ministry of Health: 750 new COVID-19 cases were recorded and 18 deaths.

I think this is the highest recorded so far, for both.

11,756 tests were done today, including 8,806 locally.

The positivity rate is 8.2% https://t.co/g45ru5UqCD

Important thread about USA's pressure on Lebanon to resume direct talks with Israel to solve the dispute in the maritime border, especially block 9 that is rich in natural gas.

Israel is aiming at a direct meeting with the Lebanese side without a mediator. https://t.co/GJDzsZLLLM

State department official David Shenker is the man behind the negotiations now, as I mentioned before.

Interesting how Shenker thinks he met with the transitional government in Beirut when he actually met with no bodies. What is he trying to do? A coup?

IMPORTANT: - Experts from active European states have begun to review the available agreements between the Lebanese parties, from Lausanne, the Tripartite Agreement, Taif Agreement to Saint Cloud and Doha agreements in case things go wrong in Lebanon.

- These European countries, in case of something, are preparing to sponsor a conference that brings together the Lebanese parties, in preparation for a new formula to rule.

(As reported by Lebanese French journalist @tammam1975)

This being said, Jumblatt who was in France, said today: "We're marking the end of Greater Lebanon". It seems to hint we are soon (likely) going to an internal war that might later involve several external players.

As I said, we entered the beast mode. Embrace.

The Minister of Defense in the caretaker government, Zeina Akar, is visiting a number of the Lebanese Army centers in the Bint Jbeil and Tyre districts, in addition to several border points in a southern tour that will conclude at the UNIFIL headquarters in Naqoura. https://t.co/PoqIvQyWmM

Why is she here in a second visit in one month? Because of the upcoming border dispute negotiations.

Zeina is close to the USA, and she was the one that informed the government of the Caesar Act, handing each minister a copy of it and introducing it to them to accept it.

A group of protesters marching to the Ministry of Defense to reject "illegal weapons" and to demand the implementation of Resolution 1559. 1559 demands all non state actors to disarm.

Reference photo from similar protests. https://t.co/qz6vWKVsyk