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Nasrallah justified conducting the strike from a “non-Shiite area,” saying the party could not strike the open area it wanted from elsewhere. He added that it was not his intention to harm the mainly Druze village of Shwaya, where residents yesterday confronted a party contingent
7 August 2021
In a live television address, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has said the party’s rocket fire yesterday in retaliation for Israeli airstrikes was intentionally aimed at open ground. He added that it was carried out in daylight “to not scare the people of the south”
7 August 2021
A wildfire that broke out overnight in the Bater area of the Chouf has resurged, the NNA reports. As the flames approach houses, residents are calling on authorities, particularly the army equipped with helicopters, to intervene, the report adds
7 August 2021
Lebanon is down to just a week’s worth of gas cylinders, syndicate head says
BEIRUT — The president of the syndicate of gas sector employees and distributors Farid Zeinoun warned on Saturday that the stock of gas cylinders in the country is only enough for a week, as severe...
7 August 2021
Lebanon has registered 1,593 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Six more people have died, raising the death toll to 7,938
7 August 2021
Kataeb party leader Sami Gemayel has implored authorities to fight a fire ravaging a wooded area of the Naas region of his native Bikfaya in Metn, saying in a tweet that the blaze “is approaching homes”
7 August 2021
A large fire blazed through dead grassland in the Faouar area of Saida, South Lebanon, this morning, resulting in five people requiring treatment for smoke inhalation, the NNA reports
7 August 2021
More than 2 million captagon pills and two tons of hashish were seized at the Beirut port at the end of July, the Internal Security Forces have announced in a statement. The drugs were intended to be smuggled abroad, the statement adds
7 August 2021
We need an international fight against grand corruption
This year on June 2-4, the UN General Assembly held its first ever Special Session against Corruption, UNGASS 2021. The UNGASS was supposed to adopt a strong political declaration recognizing grand...
