1 year agoEgypt will send more 12 military transport planes to Lebanon within the next few days, as a part of the air-bridge opened between Cairo & Beirut to transfer humanitarian aid to help the Lebanese people overcome the ramifications of the massive #BeirutBlast
Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah warns of a potential civil war in Lebanon at least nine times during his speech
Nasrallah: There are several entities that could have come set a small explosive and blown up the ammonium nitrate, including Israel
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah: President Michel Aoun cannot be overthrown the way some politicians are doing in Lebanon
1 year agoMap of competing claims for gas in the eastern Mediterranean
Nasrallah: They are trying to take the country to civil war. They were trying to do what they did when @saadhariri was kidnapped. I accuse Lebanese political parties and powers of bringing Lebanon to the brink of civil war for foreign interests
Macron discussed with President Trump the latest developments in the eastern Mediterranean, Libya and Lebanon
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah: The effects of the military, security and psychological defeat that the Israeli enemy suffered in the July War are still present and strongly at this time.
President Aoun meets with the French Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, in the presence of the French Ambassador, Bruno Fuchs, and the accompanying delegation
1 year agoThe amphibious Tonnerre helicopter carrier docked in Beirut this morning
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri: If Lebanon abandons the resistance, it will be abandoning its unity and sovereignty
Death toll from Beirut port explosion rises to 177 -Minister of Health
US official visiting Lebanon says the FBI will join Lebanese and international investigators in the Beirut blast probe
Iran FM Zarif will visit Beirut tomorrow (Nasrallah will also make a speech tomorrow)
French Defense Minister has arrived in Beirut
Lebanese Minister of Health: Extending the state of health emergency in Beirut for a month and beginning to isolate some neighborhoods in the regions, with strictness to home quarantine
President Erdoğan: "We are in Lebanon as a requirement of our eternal and eternal brotherhood. We are not concerned about giving photographs like some people do"
CENTCOM told there is no "actual evidence to support or confirm" the 1st explosion at Beirut port was due to negligence. Western sources told us there were spy crafts in the air, but those did *not* carry out any strike.
World Health Organization: Half of Beirut's hospitals are out of service due to the explosion
The EU Foreign Affairs Council, consisting of the Foreign Ministers of the EU member states, will meet extraordinarily on Friday teleconference. Eastern Mediterranean, Belarus and Lebanon will be discussed at the meeting
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas arrives in Beirut
Beirut: Tensions in the vicinity of Parliament and security forces firing rubber bullets at the demonstrators to disperse them
1 year agoProtest in front of the entrance to the House of Representatives in Beirut
Lebanese caretaker health minister Hassan Hamad said "the new official death toll is 171, the number of missing people ranges between 30 and 40. 6,000 others were injured in Tuesday blast. About 1,500 need delicate treatment & 120 of them are still in intensive care"
Netanyahu: In order for an incident similar to the Beirut bombing not to be repeated, Hezbollah must take out the explosive materials and missiles that it stores in Lebanese residential communities
U.S. military gave Lebanon $2 million in emergency aid. Five cargo planes have delivered medical supplies: U.S. embassy Beirut
USAID Administrator John Barsa from Beirut: The American people stand with the Lebanese people
1 year ago3 Israeli army tanks crossed the border fence (inside Israeli territory) along the Blue Line near Meiss El Jabal and deployed smoke shells during routine activity
1 year agoIsraeli army tanks are leaving the area on the Blue Line, leaving behind a fire caused by the smoke shells
The French Foreign Minister calls for the acceleration of the formation of a Lebanese government that "proves its effectiveness"
