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According to Al Manar reporter Ali Chiab, no security incident.

Just IDF routine procedures, when they suspect anything on the border.
And as usual, IDF's flares cause fires in Lebanon. https://t.co/sUeu5lYP7e
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Another angle of the incident.

Thread ends here unless something else happens. https://t.co/5ulU4AldOo
A total of 3 flares were fired.

Photo by Al Manar reporter Ali Chiab. https://t.co/tTk8NZoW5H
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak: I met with Abdullah bin Zayed 6 times in the last 15 years.

Ehud Barak: I met with Bahrain's envoy 25 years ago. https://t.co/EgnRFirTCf
Ehud is Jeffrey Epstein's friend. I wonder if he was doing favors for the Arab rulers. https://t.co/h3GzP5pou6
Baalbak Hermel province is out of fuel.
Israel is retaining 9 bodies that belong to Lebanese National Resistance Front – LNRF from the occupation period of south Lebanon. Their names are below: https://t.co/g82Yo5h5U8
- Jamal Satti
- Hassan Ali Musa
- Elias Youssef Harb
- Hussam Farouk Hijazi
- Michel Ibrahim Saliba
- Faraj Allah Fouani
- Iyad Saleh Qasir
- Hassan Muhammad Daher
- Yahya Muhammad Al-Khaled

All killed in the 1980's and the terrorist state of Israel still keeps them. https://t.co/eRPuqt7fbu
IDF is shooting bursts of bullets into the fields on the border.

Details in one minute.
An enemy Drone penetrated 600 meters into the Lebanese airspace in the vicinity of the “Al-Abbad” site, east of the town of Hula, in southern Lebanon.

Note: IDF is using such drone to check the area instead of soldiers to avoid being fired at.
Anxiety pushed the enemy to fir bursts from time to time from the "Dahr al-Jamal" outpost in front of the town Ramiya, aiming at its surroundings inside the occupied area.
A letter was found with a corpse recovered in front of Zouk thermal power plant:

"Save us, we are cut off in the sea in eastern Cyprus, thank you very much. There is no water or food."

Several bodies were found on the coast of those killed in smuggling boats.
Sources revealed that in the investigations into the file of illegal immigration and maritime smuggling between Lebanon and Cyprus, "Burhan Qatrib" was arrested. He admitted that he charged 5 million LBP per passenger, and the number of travelers on the boat reached 45, but however he denied the ownership of the boat. He claimed that his brother-in-law is responsible.
Another corpse found.

The corpse, found in the sea off Sarafand, belongs to Mohammed Hassan Assaf.

They all drowned during attempting to illegally immigrate by sea.
The issue today with the government formation is whether Hezbullah should be represented by any minister.

You can notice, unlike all the previous times, no party is asking for anything. No party is demanding anything, it's just Hezbullah and Amal this time speaking...why?
I mentioned earlier in my threads that the USA has effectively veto-ed Hezbullah's presence in the government and threatened to sanction anyone that will work with them.

- That's why all parties are satisfied with what they got. Especially at a time when Lebanon is not sustainable anymore.

- USA has no issue with Amal being represented in the government, its main issue is with Hezbullah. Yet, Amal won't support USA in isolating Hezbullah politically. What comes next makes Hezbullah uncomfortable: if it is successfully isolated from the political life (government), despite having got most votes in the elections, no one can forecast what will be enforced on Lebanon by the USA :

If the USA is able to isolate the strongest party, the USA can easily ask the government anything.
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What could go wrong?

- Just recently, the USA demanded the transitional government to sit with Israel to negotiate the border dispute. Trump wants to be seen as the man who made Lebanon and Israel sit together and negotiate, after 30 years of no direct talks.

- Hezbullah fears that without its presence in the government, USA could reenact what happened in 2008, after Hezbullah (and Amal) resigned. Back then, the government was spearheaded by PM Foad and Jumblatt. At USA orders, as Jumblatt said, and as a revenge for the 2006 July War, the government ordered to confiscate Hezbullah's communication network. This network was targeted by Israel, and seen as what kept Hezbullah able to act during the war.