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Security & Justice
Southern Lebanon Endures Massive Damage: 40,000 Homes Leveled Across 37 Towns
Israeli forces have systematically destroyed entire neighborhoods in southern Lebanon, leveling more than 37 towns and wiping out over 40,000 residential units, according to Lebanon's National News Agency.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Gaps in Coastal Radar Enabled Israeli Raid in Batroun, Army Commander Says
Lebanon’s army chief, General Joseph Aoun, detailed to Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati how Israeli forces likely exploited gaps in the country's coastal radar system during the recent raid carried out in Batroun. The briefing comes as Lebanese officials seek answers on how Israel’s elite Shayetet 13 unit carried out the landing undetected.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Opinion
The Emptying of Baalbek Is a Moment to Take Stock
“Large numbers of people continue to flee their homes every day, as Israel’s military operations in Lebanon have been going on unabated.” These disturbing words could be from almost any news report about Israel’s invasion of its northern neighbour over the past month. However, they can be found in a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre issued on July 27, 2006.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
A Future Without Hezbollah
At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the group’s supporters in a seaside café in western Beirut. He was a middle-aged man with a thin white beard and the spent look of someone who had not slept for days. He was an academic of sorts, not a fighter, but his ties to Hezbollah were deep and long-standing.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Sports
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
Tottenham forward Son Heung-min was crowned as Asia’s International Player of the Year for the fourth time by the Asian Football Confederation at its annual awards ceremony Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Real Madrid Launch Investigation into Racist Insults After El Clasico Defeat
Real Madrid has launched an investigation into racist insults directed at players during Saturday’s 4-0 home loss to Barcelona in LaLiga, it said on Sunday.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Sunday 20 March 2022 18:05:52
Abou Chakra: Some Gas Stations Likely to Close Monday Due to Lack of Fuel Ahead of Distributors' Strike
A number of gas stations in Lebanon are likely to close Monday due to a lack of fuel on the eve of a general strike by fuel distributors.
Here is what we know:
• Local TV channel MTV quoted Fadi Abou Chakra, spokesperson for the fuel distributors, as saying Sunday that “several stations will not be able to deliver fuel tomorrow” ahead of more widespread disruption in the sector on Tuesday.
• “Only some distributors will be able to deliver their goods, but on Tuesday, the whole sector will comply with the strike," he explained.
• The prospect of gas station closures has sown, once again, panic among motorists. On Sunday evening lines of cars again formed in front of some stations.
• Reacting to this announcement, gas station owners’ syndicate member Georges Brax defended his sector against criticism, saying that “the fuel sector is not a scapegoat and is not responsible for the monetary, economic and financial crisis in Lebanon and the current disorder.” In a statement reported by our correspondent Hoda Chedid, Brax continued, “It is up to state officials to give the stations, tanks, import and distribution companies the rights that are due to them, so that citizens can have access to fuel. We can no longer bear the losses. Neither the stations, nor the tanks, nor the companies want to close and stop work.”
• Last Thursday, the union of tanker owners and fuel distributors announced a strike for Tuesday throughout the country in tandem with a rally in front of the headquarters of the Energy Ministry.
• Since the end of 2019, the ministry’s Petroleum Directorate has been demanding that the tanks of these vehicles be standardized for safety reasons. Drivers oppose this measure, saying it creates additional costs that they cannot sustain.
• After a hike in fuel prices following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the surge in world oil prices, prices in Lebanon were revised downwards earlier this week.
• On Monday and Tuesday, the country’s banks will also be on strike, to contest legal proceedings launched against commercial banks.
