IRAN 🇮🇷 ⏳ ISRAEL 🇮🇱
- Defense Minister Gallant after a phone call with U.S. Defense Secretary Austin: „We are detecting preparations for attacks in Iran. Something we have never seen before.”
- Iran might carry out an attack on Israel in the coming days, potentially even before the upcoming Thursday summit on the hostage deal negotiations
- The Iranian Revolutionary Guards have started wide military maneuvers in western Iran until Tuesday
- US has ordered the deployment of a guided missile submarine to the Middle East
- An Iranian military delegation visited Russia on Sunday
- UK, France and Germany warn Iran it will ‘bear responsibility’ for jeopardizing peace if it attacks Israel
HOSTAGES 🎗️
- In call with Netanyahu, Germany’s chancellor Scholz said Gaza cease-fire deal must be finalized
- Hamas has refused to join the planned summit on Thursday to negotiate a prisoner exchange agreement The decision comes despite significant Israeli and international pressure for the summit to take place
- Mediating countries working to establish hostage deal summit, despite Hamas’s reticence
LEBANON 🇱🇧
- several Hezbollah operatives were killed in a drone strike in southern Lebanon Sunday
- about 30 rockets were launched from Lebanon towards Nahariya, there are no casualties
JORDAN 🇯🇴
- Houthis are sending squads disguised as tourists to Jordan to infiltrate Israel
- Jordanian security forces have prevented several such attempts over the last month
ISRAEL 🇮🇱
- The IDF has issued a new order banning all regular soldiers from remaining in Georgia and Azerbaijan, countries close to Iran
GAZA, JUDEA&SAMARIA (so called WEST BANK)
- IDF confirms 38 terrorists eliminated in Gaza school attack which contrasts with Palestinian claims that approximately 100 uninvolved civilians were killed in the attack
- Hamas terrorists use Gaza schools as refuges, and refugees as human shields
USA 🇺🇸
- Vice President Kamala Harris has displayed greater empathy for the people of Gaza than both President Joe Biden and Former President Donald Trump, according to Salima Suswell, the founder and chief executive of the Black Muslim Leadership Council Fund.
OTHERS 💰🥇
- Investors are expecting El Al’s profits to soar again – the airline has never had it so good. Although El Al stubbornly insists that it is not hiking fares, inevitably, when supply is reduced, and the Israeli airline once again controls the skies, prices rise.
- Israel’s 7 medals mark its best-ever Olympic showing. With only muted anti-Israel sentiment despite heightened tensions, athletes bring home 1 gold, 5 silver and 1 bronze medal from Paris Games and notch a number of other achievements. Team Israel dedicated their victories to the hostages. 🥇🥈🥉🎗️
Sources: The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, KAN News, Israel Realtime, Ha’aretz
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