Multiple roads in the northern mountains are blocked this morning due to ice and snow, the Traffic Management Center reports, including in the Cedars, Aqoura, Hadath Baalbeck and Hermel

The Free Patriotic Movement’s parliamentary bloc has accused Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri of deliberately “not lifting a finger” to form a government so as to avoid responsibility for removing subsidies, the financial audit of public accounts and other key reforms

During a press conference, families of victims of the Aug. 4 Beirut port explosion called for the establishment of a special court to investigate the blast and said that they did not want “a single nail to be hammered” in reconstruction of the area until an indictment is issued

The military appeals court sentenced Elie Ghabash, a computer hacker, to 1.5 years in prison with hard labor for fabricating evidence against Itani and sentenced Hajj to two months in prison for failing to report her knowledge of Ghabash’s plan

The Military Court of Cassation has acquitted former ISF cybercrimes head Suzanne al-Hajj of charges of fabricating evidence to frame actor Ziad Itani for collaborating with Israel, a judicial source tells L’Orient Today

EDL and Siemens approved the unloading of gas oil from a tanker after it passed quality checks, the Directorate-General of Oil says. A source at EDL previously said that the tanker was prevented from unloading at the Zahrani power plant due to testing issues