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Macron says Paris determined to organize Lebanon aid conferences

French President Emmanuel Macron lauded Tuesday President Joseph Aoun's "brave decisions to achieve arms monopoly," adding that Paris is determined to organize two conferences for supporting Lebanon.

One of the conferences is to drum up financial aid for the reconstruction of war-hit regions in Lebanon. The second will be to support the Lebanese Army which was tasked with implementing a plan to disarm Hezbollah, but lacks funds and equipment and has said that the Israeli occupation and strikes on south Lebanon are obstructing its deployment there.

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Hezbollah MP says sovereignty advocates in Lebanon 'fell silent' after Msayleh strike

Hezbollah MP Hassan Ezzeddine condemned Tuesday Israel's weekend strikes on construction machinery in south Lebanon, describing the attack as "a crime against civilians, the economy and national sovereignty".

Ezzeddine criticized Hezbollah's opponents who call for sovereignty (through Hezbollah's disarmament in order for the state to extend its authority over all Lebanese territory and take the war and peace decisions) and then "fall silent" when Israel violates Lebanon's sovereignty "with such impudence."

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After Gaza ceasefire, Salam urges world to pressure Israel to stop violations in Lebanon

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has called on the international community to pressure Israel to halt its attacks on Lebanon, as he welcomed the ceasefire in Gaza.

"While our government is committed to the ceasefire (reached in late November between Lebanon and Israel) and is working diligently to extend state authority over all Lebanese territory with its own forces and to monopolize weapons, the country is still exposed to almost daily Israeli aggressions," Salam said, referring to the government's decision to disarm Hezbollah.

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HRW urges justice 2 years after deadly Israeli attack on journalists in Lebanon

Human Rights Watch has urged Lebanon to pursue justice two years after an Israeli strike killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six others, including two from AFP.

The October 13, 2023 attack killed Issam Abdallah and wounded two of his colleagues from Reuters, as well as two people from broadcaster Al Jazeera, and AFP's Dylan Collins and Christina Assi as they were working in south Lebanon near the Israeli border.

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Tannourine water bottles pulled from market over bacteria contamination

The Health Ministry on Monday suspended the operations of the Tannourine Mineral Water company, ordering that its water bottles be pulled from the market due to their contamination with the pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria.

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Report: Destroyed Msayleh vehicles were to be used for repairing infrastructure in 38 towns

Israel’s destruction of dozens of bulldozers and excavators in Msayleh was aimed at telling the Lebanese state and people that Israel will not allow the rebuilding of their destroyed towns before Lebanon agrees to Israel’s demand of “direct negotiations,” ministerial sources said.

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Salam condemns Israeli threats to engineer advocating for south reconstruction

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam "strongly" condemned Monday Israeli threats to a Lebanese Engineer advocating for the reconstruction of his community in south Lebanon, re-iterating the government's full commitment to the reconstruction (of war-hit regions) and to the right of all residents of the South to "a safe and sustainable return."

Mazraani is a Lebanese activist and engineer from the southern border town of Houla. He founded the "Gathering of the Residents of the Southern Border Localities" to advocate for the reconstruction of war-hit villages, especially the southern border villages which were badly damaged in the latest Israeli war.

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Trump says Aoun 'doing very well' in disarming Hezbollah

U.S. President Donald Trump said in a historic speech in Israel’s Knesset on Monday that “in Lebanon, the dagger of Hezbollah, long aimed at Israel’s throat, has been totally shattered.”

“My administration is actively supporting the new president of Lebanon (Joseph Aoun) in his mission to permanently disarm Hezbollah’s terror brigades. He’s doing very well,” Trump added, in a speech focused on the U.S.-brokered ceasefire and captive exhange deal between Israel and Hamas.

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Aoun says 'necessary to negotiate' with Israel

President Joseph Aoun on Monday called for negotiations with Israel, after U.S. President Donald Trump brokered a ceasefire in Gaza.

"The Lebanese state has previously negotiated with Israel under American and United Nations auspices, resulting in an agreement to demarcate the maritime border... so what prevents the same thing from happening again to find solutions to the outstanding issues," Aoun said according to a presidency statement.

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Berri calls for reconstruction, unity, and US pressure on Israel after spat with Salam

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has said that Israel's recent strikes on construction machinery in south Lebanon was a message that the south's "reconstruction is not allowed".

He told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, in remarks published Monday that the destruction of more than 300 vehicles, including bulldozers, excavators, and cranes, used for removing rubble in order to begin the reconstruction effort, is an Israeli plan to turn the southern border towns into an "unlivable demilitarized buffer zone."

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