🇱🇧 Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam has set an additional criterion for selecting ministers, which he communicated to the President of the Republic and some parliamentary blocs and political forces with whom he communicates.

The criterion is that the candidate for ministerial post must be a graduate of the American University of Beirut, the Jesuit University, or a “respectable” Western university.

Yesterday, the President of the Republic reminded those who contacted him of this criterion.

‼️ The IDF says it intercepted a Hezbullahh surveillance drone that was launched from Lebanon at Israel a short while ago.

No sirens sounded amid the incident, "according to protocol"

✍ This is a message by Hezbullah

📹 An IDF drone attacked engineering vehicles in the destroyed town of Taybeh while civil defense was excavating in search of the remains of fighters.

Evil beyond evil

📸 Such civilian engineering vehicled are very expensive and attacking them is just unexplainable aggression.

🥀 Abu Obeida announces the martyrdom of the Chief of Staff of the Qassam Brigades, Muhammad al-Deif, and a number of commanders:

Marwan Issa (Deputy Chief of Staff of the Qassam Brigades), Ghazi Abu Tama'a (Commander of the Weapons and Combat Services Section), Raed Thabet (Commander of the Human Resources Section), Rafeh Salama (Commander of the Khan Yunis Brigade)

And others...

كلمة الناطق العسكري باسم كتائب القسام أبو عبيدة"وَيَتَّخِذَ مِنكُمْ شُهَدَاء"

#طوفان_الأقصى

🇮🇱 According to initial reports, and as expected, Defense Minister Yisrael Katz decided to appoint the Director General of the Ministry of Defense, Major General (res.) Eyal Zamir, as Chief of Staff, succeeding Herzi Halevi

The criminals coward IDF did not take credit for their drone strikes that destroyed the engineering equipment today in Taybeh which were operated by the apolitical national Lebanese civil defense.

If you remember, yesterday they attacked another engineering vehicle many many km away yet took credit. They claimed falsely it was for Hezbullah but the vehicle was parked there and unused at a home.

A few days before, they attacked additional engineering vehicles in Tallouseh.

Notice the pattern?

Aita al-Shaab, before and after the war then ceasefire which the Israeli Jewish army took advantage off to demolish civilian houses.

Demolishing civilian houses is a war crime.

War crimes are self explanatory, because and unfortunately no one gave enough weight to it, the IDF shot to kill and injure 200 Lebanese in the past week.

Unarmed civilians in their towns, shot with the intention to kill by the Israeli army.

🇱🇧l🇸🇦 Saudi envoy Prince Yazid bin Farhan will visit Beirut and meet a number of politicians away from the media

📹 Despite the ceasefire, despite the war ending, despite Lebanon's adherence and the fall of Assad...

The IDF attacked tonight several locations in Janta and Beqaa area, targeting locations they claimed "posed a threat" to the Israeli home front....some 200+ km away.

They claim attacking border crossing with Syria, weapon facilities, and underground manufacturing sites.

This grave aggression is unacceptable. We are not in an active war. The whole government and army should be mobilized to condemn them and pressure foreign mediators

📹 Similar to last time, an unofficial road between Lebanon and Syria was attacked.

The thing is, like last time, these exact roads were in Wadi Khaled and other sunni towns and not used by Hezbullah.

They are used by locals to smuggle Lebanese fuel and goods to Syria.

🥀 However, the other attack on Janta murdered 2 and injured 10 others.

Janta is a Lebanese Shia area, close to Hezbullah.

📰 The IDF is burning new civilian houses in Aita al-Shaab and Kfarkila among other towns.

📸 President Aoun discussed developments in the South with Acting Army Commander Major General Hassan Odeh and Intelligence Director Brigadier General Tony Kahwaji.

📸 As for the other road...

Israeli warplanes cut off the main road linking Syria to Lebanon, which links the Lebanese town of Tufail to the Syrian town of Assal al-Ward in western Qalamoun.

The raid created a seven-meter-deep hole and cut off the main road, damaged voltage poles, and cut off the power lines between Syria and Lebanon.

🇱🇧l🇺🇸 Deputy US Middle East envoy Morgan Ortagus began her first visit to Lebanon yesterday with a meeting with the head of the ceasefire monitoring committee, US General Jasper Jeffers, at the US embassy.

A new date for the committee’s meeting, which has been suspended for about two weeks, has not yet been announced.

There has also been no indication of any guarantees that the Israeli occupation forces will be obligated to withdraw by February 18 and that they will be forced to stop their continued attacks.

She's a hardcore Zionist Jew assigned in a role in a region where there is only one Jewish state vs dozens of Arab Muslim ones.

Ffs is there only Jews in the U.S.? For them to always take most portfolios? She is the successor of Amos.

Amos was better. Just go check her Twitter Account.

Let's be very clear because the situation is this unstable, for us and for Palestinians but that's a different topic.

Aoun and the Lebanese government accepted the extension of Israeli presence for 22 days to 18-Feb, weakening the ceasefire agreement that explicitly announced Israelis will stay at most 60-days.

By weakening the ceasefire agreement and accepting an extension, they opened the path for Israelis to ask for additional extensions which the U.S. Jewish administration will happily accept and then pressure Lebanon to adopt.

Let's be very clear here. After 18-Feb, will Aoun and whoever is a PM accept a new extension? How they will act of no extension is agreed on?

Hezbullah already said they refuse the extension, but didn't act because they are both in not a favorable situation to act and because they want to give the state additional time to achieve the results that would be optimal to everyone. For the state's backers, for the withdrawal, for the end of conflict, etc....

Withdrawal has signs. We are seeing none. Will they continue to act as everything is normal while Israel violates the ceasefire even on terms excluding the withdrawal part?

The attack on Beqaa is an act of war. The area is neither south of the Litani river, nor any active weapon. Attacking roads for alleged claimed smuggling is unacceptable, let alone attacking and killing people in Janta.

That all aside, as a Lebanese Shia it only drives me closer to supporting Hezbullah when I see that many Lebanese not only justifying the Israeli presence and attacks in Lebanon or mocking the airstrikes on us, but those who are openly calling for stripping us from our jobs, including in the Lebanese state, putting our leaders in prisons and shockingly saying they hoped Israel continued the war and actually ended us (exterminated us)

Each of these words are documented in hundreds of tweets and TV interviews from Lebanese journalists, politicians, and locals.

See, I don't ask Hezbullah of anything but becoming stronger.

🇺🇸/🇯🇴🇪🇬 Trump insists Egypt and Jordan will take Gaza’s displaced, dismissing their refusals: "They will do it... We do a lot for them, and they’re going to do it."

@CIG_telegram