Pictures of martyr PM Rashid Karami were raised in Al-Nour Square in Tripoli, captioed: "Tripoli is in your hands, do not allow them to assassinate me again."

Rashid Karami was assassinated by the current head of the Lebanese Forces party Samir Geagea.

Israeli UAVs were violating Lebanon's airspace over Beirut for several hours early in the morning.

Prominent Lebanese opposition coalition ‘Vote for Change’ that has candidates all over Lebanon, saluted and sang the UAE anthem, as a thanks for hosting it and the expatriate election.

It is notable that the UAE is a tribal absolute monarchy, with a semblance of elections for the Federal National Council, “an advisory quasi-parliamentary body” of 40 members (Wiki). 20 are elected by a number of “hand-picked” citizens who have voting rights, and 20 appointed by the rulers of each emirate. The UAE is “an autocracy with the sheen of a progressive, modern state” (NYT). It has no formal commitment to free speech.

In response to western MSM Russian MFA Lavrov:

"If you can't sleep over the Ukrainian-Russian war, imagine it's in Africa or Middle East. Imagine Ukraine is Palestine or Russia is USA."

Speech started, check below to watch in English twitter.com/allushiii_new…

Similar to Hezbullah, Amal Movement in a rare media release states it's on high alert following the IDF's full-month war drills.

According to the annual US foreign aid report, the US military keeps thousands of PGM/JDAMs in Israel, to assist IDF in case IDF's stockpile dwindles during a prolonged war against Hezbullah in Lebanon or Gaza.

Hebrew media: Initial reports that IDF attacked an observation point in southern Syria near the border with occupied Palestine. twitter.com/SAMSyria0/sta…

Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen heads the investment operations in Israel for the SoftBank Group.

Cohen will lead the local operations of the SoftBank Vision Fund 2, which manages $30 billion, and will report to the fund’s management in London. twitter.com/Fxhedgers/sta…