The past six months have brought hardships unseen in Lebanon even during the bitter days of its 15-year civil conflict that ended in 1990.
Decades of corruption and financial mismanagement by warlords-turned-politicians and a cabal of business elites combined with the war next door in Syria to plunge Lebanon's economy into its worst crisis in living memory.
In the meantime, Israelis are sparing no effort to complete the process of Judaization.
In light of the worlds preoccupation with the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic, the pace of settlement expansion in al-Quds has increased, with more than 17,700 settlement units being built just within the past two months.