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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.

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⋯ The operation was done by 28-year-old Palestinian Laith Nasar, a resident of the West Bank village of Madama, near Huwara. He was seriously shot and arrested.
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Israeli lawmakers have introduced a new bill that would punish believers for sharing the gospel of Jesus with prison time, Jerusalem correspondent Daniel Cohen reports today (20 ⁠March).

By: @⁠⁠⁠NEWSMAX
Knesset introduces a bill to stop Christians who share the Gospel

A bill to sanction proselytism up to 1 ⁠year in prison (2 ⁠years, when soliciting minors) has been submitted by “United Torah Judaism” MKs Moshe Gafni and Yaakov Asher, who are allied with Netanyahu. Gafni is the chairman of the Finance Committee, he first tried to ban evangelism in 1999. Asher is the chairman of the Internal Affairs and Environment Committee.

The bill would outlaw having spiritual conversations with Israelis of any religion, however “in their official explanation of the bill, they specifically emphasized the warning to stop Christians”, says All Israel News. “Publishing books, printed literature, online articles, podcasts (...) would also become illegal. So would discussing the Gospel message via email, text messages, written letters and/or on social media.”

Netanyahu will not accept such legislation, but his allies “are far more aggressive in this legislative session than ever before”.
🇮🇱🇵🇸🇯🇴 — Tensions flared up between the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the State of Israel after the Far-Right Finance Minister of Israel Bezalel Smotrich (A Member of the Kahanist Religious Zionist Party), during an speech in a Conference held in Paris, Capital of France.

— During such speech, Mr. Smotrich said that "there was no such thing as a Palestinian people", saying that the Palestinian identity was “an invention from the last century" and advocated for the Total Expulsion of Arabs from Israel

— “Do you know who are the Palestinians?” asked the head of the ultranationalist Religious Zionism party and Israel’s finance minister. “I’m Palestinian,” he said, also mentioning his grandmother who was born in the northern Israeli town of Metula 100 years ago, and his grandfather, a 13th-generation Jerusalemite, as the “real Palestinians.”

On the pulpit where the Israeli Minister made the statement, a Map containing the Controversial "Greater Israel" Project, where the territory of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, as well as the West Bank, the Golan Heights and Southern Lebanon appear attached as Part of Israel, as proposed by Jewish Revisionist Zionist militias during the 1948 War, which enraged not only Palestinian representatives, but also the Jordanian Monarchy
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🇯🇴🇮🇱🇮🇱🇯🇴 Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of Jordan on Twitter:
— "The Israeli Minister of Finance's use, during his participation in an event held yesterday in Paris, of a map of Israel that includes the borders of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the occupied Palestinian territories represents a reckless inflammatory act, and a Violation of international norms and the Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty."
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🗓 20 years ago, the U.S. debuted its invasion of Iraq

On this day in 2003, the U.S. government invaded Iraq. It was an illegal invasion under international law (a veto was pending at the UNSC), which killed over a million Iraqis, according to different surveys.

📹 Video of the “shock and awe” bombardment of Baghdad (night of 19-20 March 2003), according to President George W. Bush's words. It was a preliminary to the ground invasion. The U.S. destroyed all government and civilian infrastructure, such as Baghdad's Al-Dora oil refinery. The electricity was then cut.
🚨 The Market exchange rate surpasses a whopping 130,000 LBP/USD, marking a 20,000 LBP increase in a mere 24 hours.
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🚨 Israeli landmine explosion at the Lebanese border. Al-Manar reporter Ali Shoeib tweeted:

“One of the Zionist soldiers screamed after his leg was amputated by a landmine explosion while carrying out engineering works at the border of the town of Aita Al-Shaab. He was evacuated in a Merkava tank.”
⋯ The landmine, which was previously planted by the Israelis themselves, was triggered by a Humvee vehicle. 3 injured Zionists were evacuated via Merkava to a nearby military base.

Photos of the Humvee's remains and soldiers' evacuation.
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🚨 Major incident. IDF released a statement: “Earlier this week [Monday 13 ⁠March], an explosive device was detonated adjacent to the Megiddo Junction (route 65), severely injuring an Israeli civilian. Security forces operated to locate the suspects who…
IDF Army Radio: The attacker who crossed the border from Lebanon to Israel to carry out the bombing in Megiddo, crossed the border using a ladder that he climbed [not a tunnel].

It is increasingly estimated that Hezbollah helped him.
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Lebanese Wazzani Park was closed under enemy pressure Lebanon's ministry of tourism closed all resorts on the Wazzani Spring with red wax, after complaints by the Israeli army and UNIFIL. The spring separates Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan…
Update: Minister of Tourism Walid Nassar pledged to the owners of the Wazzani resorts yesterday to quickly work on their license applications in order to reopen them.

He expressed his desire to have lunch in the park soon, as reported by Al-Akhbar, to encourage tourist activity in the border area.
Iranian residents in Lebanon celebrated Nowruz. A reception will be at the Iranian embassy. (Photos by @⁠⁠⁠Mojtaba_Amaani)

In Lebanon, Kurds also celebrate the holiday. 🌺 Happy Nowruz for those who celebrate it.
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Lanterns were launched in the area of Abi Samra in Tripoli, North Lebanon, on the occasion of the Holy Ramadan's start tomorrow night.
Syrian Ministry of Defense: “At around 3:55 a.m. today, the Israeli enemy launched several missiles in an airstrike from the direction Mediterranean Sea west of Latakia, targeting the vicinity of Aleppo International Airport, which led to some material damage.”
A few hours ago, an explosion was reportedly heard over Rafah in the Gaza strip. The Iron Dome was also triggered in the incident.

The IDF commented moments ago, saying that the Iron dome intercepted an alleged Hamas drone over Gaza.
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Syrian Ministry of Defense: “At around 3:55 a.m. today, the Israeli enemy launched several missiles in an airstrike from the direction Mediterranean Sea west of Latakia, targeting the vicinity of Aleppo International Airport, which led to some material damage.”
Aleppo International Airport was forced to halt its services after the runway was damaged in the strikes, according to Syrian media.

This makes the second Israeli attack on the airport since 7 ⁠March.
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