🇬🇧 Friday 09/08/24 Day 308 🎗️ MORNING HEADLINES

IRAN 🇮🇷 ⏳ ISRAEL 🇮🇱

Iran’s potential attack could be „more sudden, larger in scale, and longer“ and could involve a „coordinated barrage from multiple directions,“ according to The Washington Post reports
The US warned Iran that a broad attack on Israel would lead to the destruction of the economy and the government in Tehran, according The Wall Street Journal

🎗️ HOSTAGES – CEASEFIRE 🎗️

President Biden, the Emir of Qatar, and the President of Egypt jointly calling on Israel and Hamas to engage in a final round of negotiations on August 15 to finalize a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal
Hamas leader Sinwar delivered conditions for a hostage deal and to end the war: a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the release of high-profile multiple-murdering Palestinian prisoners
PM’s Office: Israel will send its negotiating team on August 15 to a place to be determined

ISRAEL 🇮🇱

President Herzog: ”We did not seek this war. But when left with no choice, when faced with actions aimed at our destruction, we will defend ourselves without compromise – anytime, and by any means”
Netanyahu in interview fot Time: “deeply sorry about October 7”, but rejects probe until after war; thank you for your apology – now say it in Hebrew to Israel, calls the leading title of The Jerusalem Post
Ministry of Health has begun evacuating patients with special needs in communities 10 km from the Lebanon border

SYRIA 🇸🇾

Israeli airstrikes targeting the Shayrat Airport in Homs, Syria, have completely destroyed an ammunition and missile depot; Israel is conducting pre-emptive strikes in Syria and Southern Lebanon
Syrian Chief of Staff approved the launch of suicide drones from Syrian territory towards Israel in mid-July; these decisions caused Israel to recently attack sites of the Syrian army and not Iranian sites
US base by Syria-Iraq border, Abu Hujaira, attacked by 2 suicide drones

LEBANON 🇱🇧

A series of Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon were struck by Israeli fighter jets overnight
Israeli officials estimate: Hezbollah may try to harm a senior Israeli figure
5 launches Thursday by Hezbollah of rockets at northern towns, one a barrage of 10 rockets; overall, a relatively low number and only in the evening

GAZA, SAMARIA AND JUDEA (or the so-called WEST BANK)

IDF launches new ground op in Khan Younis, intelligence shows terrorist presence in southern Gaza city
IDF uncovered and destroyed several rocket launchers on Gaza-Egypt border, adjacent to the Gaza Strip’s largest fuel depot
passages found inside the walls of residences in Rafah that were made to pass seamlessly between civilian houses in the hopes of ambushing Israeli soldiers, using innocent Gazans as human shields

USA 🇺🇸

dozen Air Force F-22 fighter jets are en route to the same base from their home station in Alaska
Pentagon chief tells Gallant: U.S. engaged in many efforts to deter aggression and defend Israel
Editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post: Harris as president could be a disaster for Israel and the Jewish people