Lebanon’s Presidency Denies Rumors About Deterioration of Aoun’s Health

 President Michel Aoun (NNA)
President Michel Aoun (NNA)
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Lebanon’s Presidency Denies Rumors About Deterioration of Aoun’s Health

 President Michel Aoun (NNA)
President Michel Aoun (NNA)

The Lebanese President’s Information Office replied Monday on the recently circulated rumors regarding the health of President Michel Aoun, asserting that security and judicial apparatuses will prosecute the perpetrators.

"Some people spread cheap rumors on social media that deal with the health of His Excellency President Michel Aoun, the latest of which are the fabricated accounts that were circulated in the past two days, in order to cause deliberate confusion in the country and spread concern in the hearts of citizens," the Presidency said.



The Information Office categorically denied these circulated news, which it described as “unfounded.”

It said their broadcasts are prohibited by the laws and regulations in force.

“Therefore, the security and judicial apparatuses will prosecute the perpetrators and their promoters and take appropriate measures against them," the statement said.

In the past few days, media reports circulated on social media that Aoun was seriously ill.

Some of those media reports even attributed a statement to the National News Agency regarding the death of Aoun.

"After midnight yesterday, unidentified persons circulated on the WhatsApp application, a rumor about the passing of the President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, which included a false and unfounded scenario attributed to" the National News Agency',” NNA said.

"The agency categorically denies that it posted such news, and asserts that it has absolutely nothing to do with the fabricated accounts attributed to it, the purpose of which is to cause confusion," it explained in a statement.

In this regard, MP Ibrahim Kanaan of Aoun’s Free Patriotic Movement published a video on his Twitter accout recording of himself and Aoun taking a walk in the Presidential Palace’s garden on Monday.

“My meeting today in Baabda with the President to discuss the latest economic, financial and social development,” the MP wrote.

Aoun, 85, is the oldest president in the Arab world.



Israel Says Apprehended Members of Iran-backed Cell in Syria

06 July 2025, Palestinian Territories, Tulkarm: An Israeli soldier enforces a ban as he attempts to enter the Tulkarm refugee camp in the West Bank. Photo: Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
06 July 2025, Palestinian Territories, Tulkarm: An Israeli soldier enforces a ban as he attempts to enter the Tulkarm refugee camp in the West Bank. Photo: Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
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Israel Says Apprehended Members of Iran-backed Cell in Syria

06 July 2025, Palestinian Territories, Tulkarm: An Israeli soldier enforces a ban as he attempts to enter the Tulkarm refugee camp in the West Bank. Photo: Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
06 July 2025, Palestinian Territories, Tulkarm: An Israeli soldier enforces a ban as he attempts to enter the Tulkarm refugee camp in the West Bank. Photo: Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa

Israel's military said Monday it had apprehended members of an Iran-backed cell in southern Syria, the second such operation it has announced in the past week.

Since the December overthrow of Syria's longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes primarily on military sites and carried out cross-border ground raids.

In a statement, the military said troops "completed an overnight operation to apprehend a cell that was operated by the Iranian Quds Force in the Tel Kudna area of southern Syria."

"For the second time in the past week... troops completed a targeted overnight operation and apprehended several operatives who posed a threat in the area," the statement added.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said Israeli forces raided early Monday a village in the Quneitra countryside of southern Syria and "carried out searches targeting several homes, which ended with the arrest of two brothers".

On Wednesday, Israel's military said its forces had apprehended members of an Iranian-backed "terrorist cell" in southern Syria and seized weapons.