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Lebanon’s Ain Qana mysterious explosion reveals Hezbollah using homes as arms depots

  In the afternoon of Tuesday, September 22 a massive explosion took place in the town of Ain Qana in southern Lebanon, at a house being used as a Hezbollah arms store. Residents of the town, which lies around 50 km south of Beirut in an area with strong ties to the militant group, were the first to raise concerns that the building was being used by Hezbollah to store weapons. Then a security source told Reuters: “The explosion occurred as a result of a technical error in one of the party’s weapons warehouses.” The sheer scale of the blast and the amount of billowing black smoke at first led many to assume it had been a gas station explosion. Video footage posted on social media showed the destruction of neighboring houses and the burnt-out surrounding land. Hezbollah operatives surrounded the area and blocked both passersby and journalists from approaching the scene. According to the National News Agency, the explosion occurred at the same time as Israeli warplanes and intelligenc...

Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah calls for boycott of Al Arabiya, Al Hadath

 Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has called for a boycott of the Al Arabiya and Al Hadath channels during a televised speech marking Ashoura. Nasrallah was speaking in a live television address marking the tenth night of the Islamic month of Muharram and the day of Ashoura. “They pay money to spread poisons and go beyond lying to provocation and insults against Hezbollah,” Nasrallah said in his attack of the media against his group, naming Al Arabiya, Al Hadath and UAE’s Sky News Arabia during his speech. “They depend on a policy of pumping media via attack articles and social media. When you turn on the television, each attack comes at the same time, because they all have the same management, brothers and sisters, in a dark room the runs,” Nasrallah said. “You’ll find the report on Al Arabiya, Al Hadath, Sky News, us Lebanese what do we need from them? This and that television channel … The newspapers, the same report sometimes has the same text. So if you have med...

Clashes south of Beirut, and the tribes accuse Hezbollah of being a sectarian weapon

  On Thursday afternoon, August 27, clashes took place in the Khaldeh area, south of Beirut, between a number of tribes and members of "Hezbollah" against the backdrop of hanging religious banners and party flags, the firing of bullets and rocket-propelled grenades, and resulted in the killing of two people and an announcement of implementation, according to the report. Local media. While the Lebanese army is in charge, the army plays the role of the army in resending the retransmission files to the Khaldeh area, and re-sending the retransmission files to the next file. The security relations of the security zones of the neighboring regions. My tweets followed the shooting, the shooting in the army, the Egyptian army communities and each other being shot. According to what was circulated on social media, the "Union of Arab Tribes' Children" appealed to the army leadership and leaders of the security services "to organize a clash in Khaldeh", blaming He...

Lebanese newspapers' headlines for August 28, 2020

  ANNAHAR: Consultations to “steer clear from responsibility” after France’s dangerous warning  AL-JOUMHOURIA: Macron’s initiative: A cabinet devoted to reforms, elections  AL-AKHBAR: Tammam Salam getting closer to premiership Khaldeh’s clashes warn of a worse scenario  THE DAILY STAR: Consultations on new PM Saturday or Monday: Baabda source Record 689 virus cases as Lebanon relaxes lockdown

Newspapers' headlines for August 27, 2020

  An-Nahar: 48 hours for Macron in Beirut: Will breakthrough happen?   Al-Akhbar: Salameh's circular: Corporate loans Dollar rate at 4,000! Prime Minister to be designated early next week?   Al-Joumhouriya: Designation: Biting fingers before Macron's return.. Israel threatens, Lebanon files complaint   The Daily Star: France creates reform roadmap for crisis-ridden Lebanon  

Lebanese newspapers' headlines for Wednesday, August 26, 2020

  ANNAHAR: Hariri shuffling designation cards    AL-ANBAA: Mobilization along southern borders after suspected infiltration attempt AL-LIWAA: Hariri refuses blackmail by Bassil and Geagea AL-AKHBAR: FPM: We will name whoever Hariri nominates! THE DAILY STAR: Israel reports 'security incident' at border with Lebanon Hariri bows out of premiership race Lebanon explosion no pretext to avoid change: Le Drian Lebanon confirms record 12 COVID deaths in 24 hours Lebanon rejects reform of UNIFIL force on border

WikiLeaks reveals Hezbollah’s relationship with ammonium nitrate

  In 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing “Global Intelligence Files”, which are more than five million emails from Stratfor, a Texas-based “global intelligence” company, where the inner workings of a company operating as an intelligence publisher were exposed, but Provides covert intelligence services to large companies.A Stratfor source in Lebanon told WikiLeaks, “Hezbollah has difficulty obtaining military explosives such as C4, RDX, etc., and relies more on the existing supplies of ammonium nitrate to maintain the cache of its explosions, and Hezbollah is having difficulty obtaining Receiving military explosives, because UNIFIL closed the Lebanese coast and prevented shipments of materials from reaching Lebanon. ” The source added, “It is alleged that Hezbollah pays twice the market price for Syrian products and buys up to 15,000 tons of fertilizers from the main Syrian petrochemical facility in Homs, then Syria takes the profits and buys cheaper fertilizers from eas...