Dear Lara, pepper spray isn't a new weapon, and I think someone with respiratory problems shouldn't be breaking barriers and vigorously attacking security forces at midnight.
https://twitter.com/LaraJBitar/status/1219763494758899713?s=19
https://twitter.com/LaraJBitar/status/1219763494758899713?s=19
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Lara Bitar
The ISF admit to using a new weapon against #LebanonProtests: pepper spray (with a red liquid). They claim its use has no (permanent) side effects, but it could have an immediate negative impact on people with respiratory problems.
Lebanese News and Updates
-- Lebanese civil defense ambulances are heading to downtown Beirut, where clashes are happening between a handful of protesters and security forces.
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-- Security forces are using water to disperse the protesters who are attacking them.
-- The airport’s website has been hacked by the Syrian Revolution Army.
They claim it's in revenge for the murder of a Syrian inside the house of the pop star Nancy Ajram, and other things.
They claim it's in revenge for the murder of a Syrian inside the house of the pop star Nancy Ajram, and other things.
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-- The Lebanese army QRF are deployed all over Achrafieh Baabda road, ahead of the government cabinet meeting.
Lebanese News and Updates
-- Beirut Barja road is blocked by protesters at Barja junction.
-- All roads surrounding Zahle roundabout have been closed by protesters with dirt mounds, stones, and waste containers.
Lebanese News and Updates
-- All roads surrounding Zahle roundabout have been closed by protesters with dirt mounds, stones, and waste containers.
-- Saadnayal and Halba roads are closed by protesters.
Lebanese News and Updates
-- The president Michel Aoun is now meeting with the prime minister Hasan Diab and parliament speaker Nabih Berri.
-- MTV correspondent: The first session of the new Cabinet has started and is devoted to forming a ministerial committee that will be charged with drawing up the ministerial statement; PM Diab will then move to the Grand Serail.
Note: The forming of the ministerial statement was always the reason delays happened because the political parties used to argue about mentioning the sentence: " The right to resist under the banner of Army People Resistance".
Anti Hezbullah parties used to object that in an aim to deprive Hezbullah of its legitimacy.
Note: The forming of the ministerial statement was always the reason delays happened because the political parties used to argue about mentioning the sentence: " The right to resist under the banner of Army People Resistance".
Anti Hezbullah parties used to object that in an aim to deprive Hezbullah of its legitimacy.
This is the first time Lebanon has a technocrat government, with all it's members leaning to a political camp in the absence of the other.
Do you think this government will have a better chance than unity governments to make a change?
Do you think this government will have a better chance than unity governments to make a change?
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37%
Yes, I'm optimistic
26%
No, I don't think so
38%
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Lebanese News and Updates
-- Lebanon sovereign dollar-bonds rallied as much as 1 cent on Wednesday after the country formed a government under Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Tuesday.
-- The local exchange rate dropped from 2300 to 1920 for a dollar.
-- Speaker Berri is communicating with the Army Commander in order to avoid potential attempts to prevent MPs from reaching the Parliament.