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A notorious Syrian-Lebanese trafficker widely known as the “Captagon King,” has been released from a Lebanese prison after completing a seven-year sentence for drug manufacturing and trafficking. Judicial sources confirmed the release of Hassan Daqqou to Daraj, OCCRP’s Lebanese partner.

The strike was the first to hit Beirut’s suburbs since the April 16 ceasefire, although hostilities in the south of Lebanon have not halted.

Israel’s military has launched strikes in Beirut, targeting a senior Hezbollah commander, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said.

For the people of Lebanon, 2020 proved to be a year of near-total catastrophe.

Residents of southern Lebanon are fleeing their homes in large numbers, with many forced to sleep in tents or cars due to the lack of bomb shelters and safe refuge from ongoing shelling.

The arrest in Bulgaria of Igor Grechushkin — whose ship carried chemicals to Lebanon that exploded in 2020 — is viewed as a sign that a long stalled investigation might finally get results.

Bulgarian authorities have arrested a man who held the lease on the ship that brought thousands of tons of chemicals to Beirut, where they exploded in 2020 while in storage at the port, causing catastrophic damage and killing more than 200 people.

Hundreds of thousands of people packed into a stadium in Beirut and nearby streets on Sunday for the funeral of Hezbollah’s former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike.

The death toll from Israeli airstrikes on central Beirut on Thursday has risen to 22, according to the country’s health ministry.

People are shelling out up to £1,200 ($1,600) for a seat on one of the yachts travelling from Lebanon to Cyprus, as Israel renewed its bombardment of the southern suburbs of Beirut.

The UK government has chartered a flight to get British people out of Lebanon after the Israeli military started ‘limited’ ground raids against Hezbollah.

Israel has claimed to have killed Ibrahim Qubaisi, the head of Hezbollah’s missile systems, in what it described as a targeted attack on the southern suburbs of Beirut.

Twenty five people were killed and at least 600 injured in Lebanon on Wednesday when walkie-talkies used by members of the armed group Hezbollah exploded, the country’s health ministry says.

Hours after Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with 140 rockets, Israel launched a ‘targeted’ strike in southern Beirut.

Hassan Nasrallah decries targeting of pagers and walkie-talkies that killed 37, including children, and hurt thousands

Hassan Nasrallah calls for revenge at funeral of Fuad Shukr as does Iranian president at funeral of Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh

Israeli leaders have said they did not want to escalate the conflict with the Lebanese group. They also said they were ready for any scenario.