🇱🇧l🇮🇱 The Israeli army is firing at the town of Khiyam with gunfire.

Only the Lebanese army is in the town

🇱🇧 Fouad Makhzoumeh withdraws his candidacy in favor of the Nawaf Salam, a Lebanese who is not based in Lebanon.

Fouad and Ashraf rifi were the favorite picks of Samir Gaegae (LF) and Kataeb Party.

Kataeb's Elias Hankash: https://x.com/EliasHankach/status/1878142030091595868

If Nawaf wins, see them celebrate it as their own political triumph.

🥀 From the search and recovery operations of the bodies of the martyrs in Tayr Harfa.

This is how hard it is, searching between rubble, between demolitions, between roads and lands covered by Israeli engineering work.

Hopefully the majority will be found, and may God bestow patience on the families of those who will never be found.

🇱🇧l🇮🇱 National News Agency: The entry of Lebanese army units into the towns of Aitaroun and Mays al Jabal, which was scheduled for today, has been postponed to a date to be determined later.

With only 13 days until 26-Jan, the Israelis still didn't withdraw from the majority of the border towns.

🇱🇧 Lebanese MPs are now meeting with the president, one by one or per party.

This is how Lebanon votes to elect a PM, where parties name a candidate to the president and the one with most votes is named.

Currently its between Nawaf Salam and Najib Mikati

Results of binding parliamentary consultations until 10:00 am:

Najib Mikati 5, Nawaf Salam 4, no one 1

The first part of the binding parliamentary consultations ended in Baabda Palace with Nawaf Salam obtaining 12 votes, compared to 7 for Mikati and 1 no-nomination.

They will be continue at 2:00 PM.

📰 With the Druze aiming to vote for Salam, and the Lebanese Forces who doesn't want to go against the independent MPs, he might win.

Its unclear what Hezbullah will do, will they not nominate anyone or name him. Will they not participate in the new government?

Will Amal stand with Hezbullah, and so, make the government lose legitimacy because it doesn't have Shia support.

❗️The IDF is demolishing the last few remaining houses in Aita Al-Shaab

🇱🇧l🇮🇱 The Jews were also spotted destroying the trees in Yaroun forest

🇱🇧 There are initial reports that both Amal and Hezbullah will postpone meeting the president today to nominate a PM, in light of the circumstances.

🇱🇧 Head of the Media Office of the Presidency of the Republic:

The President of the Republic did not agree to postpone the parliamentary consultations of the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc until tomorrow, and the appointment will be today at 3:30

❗️Nawaf Salam, the judge from the ICJ will be the PM-designate of Lebanon

🇱🇧 Hezbullah doesn't name anyone, rejects Nawaf Salam

End of meeting between Lebanese president and Hezbullah regarding consultations to name prime minister. The bloc issued the following statement:

- Once again, some are hoping for deliberate and malicious dismantling, fragmentation and exclusion against us

- We took a positive step in our meeting with the President of the Republic, and didn't abstain, but we did not receive a welcoming hand

- They have the right to have their own experience and we have the right to demand a national charter government

What will Amal Movement do?

🇱🇧 Hezbullah's MPs: We will watch and proceed calmly and wisely and we will see their actions in order to expel the occupier, recover the prisoners, rebuild, and implement 1701 correctly in a way that preserves national unity.

📰 Frangieh’s bloc will not support a candidate.

They protested Nawaf because he contacted everyone but them.

🇱🇧 MP Mark Daou: Shiite ministers can be appointed from outside Hezbullah and the Amal Movement to respect the charter in Lebanon.

The same has been said by the Lebanese Force party media.

They are openly saying we want to exclude who represents the Shia in Lebanon, the 33% of Lebanon and name no-bodies who happen to be born Shia and are against the Shia majority.

When Mohammad Raad said these MPs voted for isolation and exclusion, he was describing the matter accurately.

Hezbullah's issue with Nawaf is that Hezbullah doesn't know Nawaf. No one in Lebanon does and he never was here nor did he ever tackle Lebanese politics enough to be a PM.

Even hypocrites of the Lebanese Forces party (Gaegae) said a few years ago we don't want Nawaf because we don't know who he is: https://x.com/leb_now/status/1878820212839207369

But glad things happened like this. The anti-Hezbullah got their president and their PM, two of the most influential and important positions in Lebanon. Let's see how they will act.

There is only one matter of concern, will they attempt to put the state vs Hezbullah or no. Because Hezbullah will only surrender its weapons to Imam al-Mahdi :)

❗️There is very high possibility that Israel will accept a ceasefire in Gaza and a prisoner swap.

This comes directly because of the Trump Administration pressure, after the Israelis failed to end Gaza and locate all its hostages in a 15-month war and genocide.

Hamas's terms that were in day one are their terms today. Only Israel finally succumbed to agreeing.

In the past weeks, Israel lost about 40 soldiers in northern Gaza. 40 who died in vein for continue a war, which could have ended weeks ago, and where these 40 would have been alive and the Jewish hostages freed.

As for Hamas and PIJ, and the people in Gaza, they were patient especially that they didn't have a choice, it was either complete annihilation or continuing to fight despite the unprecedented and unimaginable losses.

Their perseverance ensured a ceasefire can happen. Unfortunately it is unlikely the complete end of the war. For Gaza, the situation is more complicated than for Lebanon.

❗️Both Amal and Hezbullah did not name to support a PM.

Without them, the Lebanese Prime Minister does not have any support from the Shia, which makes his government against the so-called charter which Lebanon was founded on after the civil war.

With the secret distribution of the parliament seats and the the main jobs in the state, all sects should be represented or they "lose legitimacy"

LOL