The director of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon said on Wednesday that the agency had not been affected by U.S. President Donald Trump's halt to U.S. foreign aid funding or by an Israeli ban on its operations.

Lebanon’s new government should prioritize protecting and promoting human rights, accountability, transparency, and the rule of law.

Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor, the head of Dubai conglomerate Al Habtoor Group, said on X on Tuesday he had cancelled all planned investments in Lebanon due to continuing instability, and would sell all his properties and investments in the country.

The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has left behind lots of rubble. Some experts fear that much of it will be dumped into the environment without controls.

The election of President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is a political breakthrough in Lebanon and a harbinger of what could happen in a country long dismissed as unsalvageable. Beirut’s new leadership reflects the aspiration of a majority of the Lebanese people to live in a functioning state free from the dual drivers of its failure: political violence and pervasive corruption.

Tom Homan, acting director of ICE, has said the goal of the raids is to get gang activity out the country, with an emphasis on public safety. “I think success is taking every illegal gang member out of this country, every public safety threat out of this country," he said. According to CNN, ICE field agents have a daily 75 arrest quota to meet.

Concerns over governance issues and underfunding of critical services are being brought to light after two select board members resigned in December.

Hamas has confirmed that its military chief, Mohammed Deif, was killed in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip last year. Israel's military said in August that it had killed Deif the previous month, but Hamas had not confirmed this until now. Hamas has also announced the death of deputy military commander Marwan Issa.

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