Lebanese News and Updates – Telegram
Lebanese News and Updates
75.5K subscribers
30.2K photos
8.27K videos
36 files
5.76K links
Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
Download Telegram
The circulated video is not from Lebanon. https://t.co/Dp08kGAivw
After a situational assessment, DM Gantz has ordered the IDF to prepare to open a field hospital due to the rise in coronavirus hospitalizations

Earlier it was reported that Sha'are Tzedek and Assuta Ashdod would no longer admit more coronavirus patients.

Source: @manniefabian https://t.co/r61FySkSX3
Gantz instructed the IDF to prepare for the construction of a 200-bed field hospital.

The director general of the Ministry of Health said last week: "Establishing a field hospital what a ridiculous idea."
The IDF will establish a special unit for epidemiological investigations that will include 600 soldiers who will come mainly from the education systems and will be headed by a lieutenant colonel. This doubles the number of soldiers, which today stands at only 300.
A voice note is circulating on WhatsApp talking about UN vehicles retreating from Lebanon (Beirut?)

@stefanodelcol any truth to any change in deployment in Beirut? https://t.co/UcvxsacuuQ
Lebanese News and Updates
The National Agency: The Israeli warplanes carried out an intensive flight in the airspace, at medium altitude, in Tyre and the Palestinian camps, reaching Naqoura airspace in the western sector.
Israeli warplanes will return today safely, but one day they will all end with the same fate as Ron Arad.

Ron never returned, and no Israeli pilot shall return to the air ever again. https://t.co/gM554TSag7
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Sayyed Nasrallah about Hezbollah's air defense, almost a decade ago. https://t.co/5B0MIE0aUj
Important points from the President's speech earlier today.

President Aoun: - There is no near solution on the horizon with the current stiffness in positions; in all the proposed solutions there is a winner and a defeated. https://t.co/LUKaoAKai5
President Aoun: - We have proposed compromise solutions, but they have not been accepted by the two parties; resorting to the constitutional texts and respecting them remains the solution in which there is neither a winner nor a loser.

- There have been four visits of the PM-designate, and he was unable to provide us with any conception, formation, or distribution of portfolios and names.

- Issues have not been solved, which can be summarized as that Adib does not want to take into account the opinion of heads of blocs on naming the ministers, and he proposes a comprehensive rotation.
President Aoun, on the allocation of the Finance ministry:

- The Development and Liberation bloc and the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc insist on having the Finance ministry and on naming its minister as well as all of the other Shiite ministers.

- The Constitution does not state the allocation of any ministry to any sect or party, nor can any minister be granted authority that is not stated in the Constitution.

- [However] it is not permissible to exclude parliamentary blocs from the government formation process, because these blocs are the ones that will grant or withhold confidence in Parliament, even if the lineup is limited to the signature of the PM-designate and the President.

- It is not permissible to impose ministers and portfolios by a team on others, especially since it does not have the majority in Parliament.
President Aoun: - The investigation into Beirut port explosion requires time in order to uncover the people involved.
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
President Aoun, when asked what will happen if no government is formed: "We [Lebanese] are going to hell"
For people living in Southern Lebanon.

This is the list of butchers who are supported by the ministry of economy to sell meat at lower prices. https://t.co/2a1GTskDa9
COVID-19 follow-up committee won't be asking for a full lockdown, but rather local closure of areas with high number of COVID-19 cases.

Note: Won't work.
After joint effort between Loyalty to resistance Bloc and other parties, the ministry of interior will again give permits, valid for 3 years, to build apartments in areas that have no municipalities and face difficulties to get permits.

Max size is 150m. https://t.co/WCz5cMIvpX
Violent clashes developed from an individual problem between members of the same family, the Tlais family in the town of Brital, in which rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) were used and a number of houses were burned.

An army force is working to end the problem and pursue the shooters.

Reports also indicate casualties, including babies. https://t.co/sObmDkUA6w
684 new cases of COVID-19 (due to the small number of tests done) and 10 new deaths.

6,662 tests were done today, including 4,369 locally. The low number is due to it being Sunday.

Positivity rate is 15% https://t.co/OLEs8mklE0