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17 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
As many of us spent their Saturday October 17th 2020 night emotional, feeling loss, pain over the country & over those who lost their lives on August 4th, somewhere in Beirut on a rooftop overlooking the damaged sea port, music is blasting & other people are having drinks.
Seriously hoping that none replies with "but who are you to dictate people and how they live".
One of those rooftops is overlooking the damaged Beirut port where around 5 people's remains were not yet recovered. Let this haunt you and sink in as you say "cheers".
At least DON'T post pictures and videos this way no one will judge you, no one will know.

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Luna Safwan - لونا صفوان Profile picture
1 Oct
1/ So many accounts & pages trying to discredit & frame me because I dare to criticize #Hezbollah. Good luck with that, if an Israeli news outlet used my tweets about Hezbollah, its because they can since my account is public, I can't control who quotes my tweets.
2/ But I can control who I talk to, and as a Lebanese journalist & passport holder: I don't engage in conversations with any Israeli media even though they do try to send messages on Twitter. I know the law, I respect my country, and most importantly my work.
3/ So these accounts are trying to frame me by using the name of Kinda Al Khatib as a hashtag (Kinda is now being investigated & accused of cooperating with Israel). This act is pure slander.
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8 Sep
1/ Thank you iCloud storage, for making my #Beirut memories easily accessible. I found a collection of pictures that I took in Beirut specifically between the years 2014 - 2017 when I used to work full time in Pasteur street/Gemayze, one of the most damaged by the explosion. ImageImage
2/ This one is on a Saifi rooftop, where a studio was located, me and my colleague used to rent out the space to edit our documentary. I spent hours on that roof observing Beirut. Sometime during one of those days the Ammonium Nitrate shipment landed in the port ahead. Image
3/ The Sursock Palace Garden where I received my first journalism award in 2013 - the Samir Kassir award for freedom of press from @SK_Eyes & the EU. I was inlove with the Sursock palace, overlooking the ceremony. @sursockmuseum Image
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7 Sep
#Lebanon: Coffee creamers are now cheaper than Pads and tampons. That's what happens when the government decides to subsidize coffee creamer but not essential women's hygiene goods.

Just a question in mind: how will refugee communities afford this? ImageImageImageImage
I think i'll ask my period for sometime off in this final 2020 quarter. LOL.
We will soon need a 'Go fund me' campaign for PADS.
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6 Sep
Back in 2015 I lost 9 of my family members in the sea. Their boat drowned, they had left Turkey illegally to Greece en route to Europe. After living on the Lebanese Syrian borders for years they were desperate for a better life. I fear such news 👇🏻
dailystar.com.lb/News/World/202…
Please read my family's story and spread awareness regarding this type of travel/illegal immigration, because the last thing I expected in 2015 was to get a call shortly after landing back in Beirut from Izmir, telling me that they drowned on the coast of Izmir. 👇🏻
The issue crept back into the headlines with news that on Oct. 12 nine of 12 members of the Lebanese Safwan family, traveling aboard a rubber boat from Turkey trying to reach Greece, had drowned when the boat was punctured and sank. al-monitor.com/pulse/original…
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5 Sep
Some updates on the situation of rescue teams in #Beirut:
•There's not homogeneous work every team wants to do as they please.
•Chilean team had to stop working many times today due to disagreements with local Lebanese teams.
•The building might collapse due to damage.
More updates:

•No sonar tests were done since the afternoon.
•The press is being asked to leave not bcz of vital signs detection testing but bcz Lebanese teams don't want to deal with press.
•No official explanatory statements to update the press or people generally.
According to Eliana Bader who is broadcasting live on/off from the scene:

•A big crane was brought to the scene.
•A ceiling is on the verge of collapsing so the crane needs to take it down before it hurts rescue teams.
•No recent news about any vital signs.
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3 Sep
1/Noting that this building is the only badly damaged one in this street:

Why didn't local rescue teams + experts clear the rubbles sooner?!

This video is from 1 month ago, how come they eliminated the possibility of finding survivors so quickly? Video by @salmanonline
2/ In many CCTV footage we noticed people running into stores or entrances of buildings to take shelter between the 1st and 2nd explosion on August 4th, given that this building is semi collapsed, wouldn't it be possible that some people had taken shelter inside?!
3/ So who assumed that just because locals said "there was no one inside" search and rescue teams should stop? Why didn't the Lebanese civil defense groups remove all the rubble immediately after the explosion on August 4th? This is a clear act of negligence.
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