...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial...illegally.
Women and children were among the group intercepted by a navy patrol off the coast of Qalamoun in northern Lebanon, the army said.
It said the boat almost sank in bad weather and that all on board were rescued and taken to shore.
The statement did not specify their intended destination.
The Republic of Cyprus, a European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
member just 160 kilometers away, is a common destination for would-be
On Friday the Lebanese internal security forces said they had thwarted an attempt by 82 people to illegally cross by sea from the Lebanon into Europe.
The Internal Security Forces said they raided a "tourist resort" in the Qalamoun area on Thursday after being tipped off.
They found "82 people, including men, women, and children, who were planning to head to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
via sea in an illegal manner for a fee of $5,000 per person," without specify their nationality.
The number of people attempting to make deadly sea crossings out of Lebanon has surged since the country's financial crisis began in 2019.
Most of the would-be
Around 80 percent of Lebanon's population is estimated to be living under the poverty line, as defined by international organizations, and the Lebanese pound has lost 90 percent of its value against the dollar on the black market.
Lebanon says it hosts more than 1.5 million Syrians, nearly a million of whom are registered as refugees with the U.N.
Official estimates put the number of Paleostinian refugees in the country at 180,000 but the actual number could be as high as 500,000.