🇱🇧❌🇪🇺 Naji Hayek, Deputy Leader of a major Christian Lebanese party (FPM), calls on the EU to stop sponsoring Syrian refugee presence in Lebanon, as it is exercising immense social pressure on the country.

It is common sense to call for their return as the Syrian war settled to areas in the north, leaving the rest of the country safe for return. However, the EU continues to pay and sponsor the refugees presence by granting monthly allowances, basic needs, education and job opportunities. This sponsorship makes it more profitable for a refugee to stay than to leave Lebanon, It is being used as a weapon against the Syrian government, holding the Syrian people "hostage" in Lebanon to deprive Syria, all in the expense of the Lebanese people and the Lebanese economy.

Additionally, the past couple months have seen increasing hostility against Syrian refugees by Lebanese groups, which was triggered by numerous crimes committed by refugee-majority organized criminal groups. Various parties and political figures, including Hezbollah's Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, have therefore asked the Lebanese state to pressure the EU by allowing refugees to cross to Europe unbothered until they agree on our terms of refugees' return.

However, It is unlikely that this will happen, as the matter is heavily politicized and geopolitically tied to foreign influences in Syria, such a shift in policy should come as a result of US-Syria talks, starting from lifting sanctions to promoting a political solution to the Syrian civil war. The Lebanese people continue to suffer from foreign meddling, and strategic mistakes.

🇺🇲Biden : The rule of law must be respected. We do not support repression and believe in freedom of expression

⚡🇵🇸 Hebrew media shows the scenes of Israeli police forcefully dispersing Haredi demonstrators who were protesting against the conscription law after they blocked Route 4 near Tel Aviv.

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🇮🇱❌🇮🇱Ben Gvir in an official statement:
I call on Netanyahu to immediately remove Gallant (defense minister) from his position.

🇮🇱🇹🇷🛢️- If this is true, that means that around 70% of Israel's oil will be cut off for a while, considering that Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan, both export oil to Israel via pipelines to Turkey, then from Turkish ports to Israel-Haifa.

🇵🇸- Almujahedeen brigades through their official telegram channel share new scenes of them making 107mm rockets

🇮🇱❌🇸🇾- explosions heard in Damascus initial reports of israeli strikes

🇮🇱❌🇮🇱 Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich:

I call on Netanyahu to dismiss the Minister of Defense and the Chief of Staff.