Source: Kataeb.org
Security & Justice
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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.
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Opinion
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Thursday 11 April 2019 11:02:42
Youth For Change Launches Numbering Project in Bchaale
As part of its efforts to develop rural areas and help the Lebanese stay in their hometowns, Youth For Change (Y4C) association signed a memorandum of understanding with Bchaale’s municipality to launch a numbering system in the Batroun village.
The system, funded by Y4C, will see Bchaale's houses, streets, buildings and archeological sites all numbered to make it easier to locate a specific destination.
Bchaale Mayor Rashid Geagea thanked the association for its endeavors in the social field, pledging more similar projects to develop and improve the village.
Head of Youth For Change, Gilbert Rizk, hoped that the numbering system project would spread out to other towns and villages, assuring that the association has still many other plans for Bchaale.
The goals behind such projects is to encourage residents to stay in their villages and hometowns, Rizk noted, pointing out that the digital economy constitutes the fourth industrial revolution and that it requires a suitable infrastructure to benefit from it.
Rizk announced that the numbering project will be managed by the leading company in the acute technology field, GeoSpatialMinds SAL.
Youth for Change is a Lebanese Non Governmental Organization founded in 2011, with the aim to promote positive youth development in the Lebanese community.
