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Here are 5 noteworthy news stories from today, Tuesday, August 27, 2024
It is clear that the situation on the ground in southern Lebanon and on the open front, a day after Hezbollah responded to the assassination of its military commander Fouad Shukr and the confrontation between him and Israel at dawn last Sunday, is incompatible with Since October 8 last year, Israel has returned to the state it was in before Sunday, that is, a “focused” state that continues to be controlled by “flexible” rules of engagement. This clearly means that the long-term attrition associated with the Gaza war will leave the fate of the South, and through it the entire country, vulnerable to this coercive equation and its development until a solution to stop the Gaza war is reached. features. Appear.
Many questions have been raised about the preparedness of the Lebanese health sector to deal with the epidemic, especially regarding the mechanisms for delivering vaccines, and it was confirmed that Lebanon was unable to obtain the “#monkeypox” vaccine during the financial crisis. sexual effect. But the situation is different in the face of the epidemic. Vaccine guarantees have specific mechanisms, so in this context, official departments cannot be bypassed. Dr. Rula Hasni Samaha, a bacteriologist at the Lebanese American University Medical Center-Rizk Hospital, confirmed this, noting that in the event of any epidemic in the country, the state is primarily responsible for providing vaccines until private until the department obtains a vaccine domestically.
French authorities arrested Pavel Durov, the famed founder of the Telegram app, at Le Bourget Airport near Paris on Saturday night, sparking widespread controversy. He was arrested on an international arrest warrant and Durov was charged with serious charges related to allowing his platform to become a haven for drug traffickers and sex offenders without adequate oversight.
Like most Lebanese, Lebanese banks and the banking industry are currently in a state of anticipation, waiting to see where the situation on the southern border and in the region will lead, and to what extent this will affect the situation in Lebanon. Lack of internal stability, business activity and economic growth is another problem that many Lebanese are unaware of and do not want to take on. The bank and its acting governor Wasim Mansouri.
The UK’s Independent Press Standards Organization (Ipso) highlights the growing impact of generative artificial intelligence in editing and journalism in its 2023 annual report. The Authority emphasizes the need for media organizations to continue to take responsibility for the content they provide, noting the challenges and opportunities presented by #generatedartificial intelligence and social media platforms in a rapidly changing media environment.
We have selected for you a few from Al-Nahar’s articles today:
The Banking Association has been suspended and its Board of Governors is still conducting business. The banking business is not very good since 2019, there are no loans, no interest, no new deposits except for necessities, so there is no normal economic and financial wheel, which means that the banks are not good, and they have joined in a tricky and complicated situation.
Hezbollah has satisfied the surrounding environment by avenging its military commander Fouad Shukr ahead of an assassination deadline at the end of the month and promising to settle scores with Israel. Data shows that many Lebanese political parties, including those very close to it, were informed in advance of what they planned to do and the approximate timeline, within days. The countdown began at the beginning of last week, and even on this The subject was subject to extensive political discussion.
Ali Hamad writes: After last Sunday’s response, has deterrence been achieved?
Hezbollah’s response to targeting Israel in response to the assassination of its top military leader, Fouad Shukr, exposed the limits of the party’s capabilities and the gap between its threats and propaganda campaigns and its actual actions on the battlefield against Israel huge gap. Judging from the response, everything that was said about painful reactions, revenge and severe punishment against Israel did not happen, just like when Iran attacked Israel on the night of April 13-14 last year in retaliation for the April 1 massacre. attacked a building of the Iranian consulate in Damascus and killed seven senior officials of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, including Mohammad Reza Zahedi, one of the most senior historical officers of the Revolutionary Guards.
No party in the axis of resistance, least of all the Hamas movement, expected that the Cairo round and the previous negotiations in Doha would find a way out that would lead to a ceasefire. Said Hassan Nasrallah knows this, but he doesn’t want to appear first to the Palestinians, while others fear his party is blocking these talks to prevent any offer to Benjamin Netanyahu argument.
A few days ago, we asked anxiously, when will the “response” happen, when will the “strike” happen, and where will it happen? When they happen, what happens after they happen? Since “response” and “strike” have happened, and “response” and “strike” have happened with or before them, we can now say: know that “reaction” and “strike” are real, and has been in our lives for a long time. They are war. Rather, they are wars with definitions. There is no difference. When have we not experienced war in our lives? When did war not happen? When did we and #Palestine cease to be its fuel and offerings? Did we achieve victory over Israel as promised? Have we stopped Israel’s illegal behavior, finally limited its arrogance that it dares not exceed, and allowed us to return to normal and natural life?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not risk a decision to launch a war against Islamic Iran without coordinating with Iran’s first ally in the world and its protector, the United States. This does not seem to be the case now, for three reasons, the most prominent of which are: first, the need to end the war in Gaza and stop the “support” war waged by “Hezbollah” against “Hamas”. Second, after its military’s prestige and reputation as the strongest military in the region suffered a major, profound and painful blow, it needs to undergo various rectifications.
