🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — 📰 CNN News: US will attempt to intercept launches at Israel if feasible, US officials say

➡️ The US will attempt to intercept any weapons launched at Israel if it’s feasible to do so, two US officials told CNN, in an indication of the level of ongoing cooperation between the two militaries before an anticipated Iranian attack.

➡️ US Navy forces in the Red Sea have previously intercepted long-range missiles launched from the Houthis in Yemen toward Israel. US forces in Iraq and Syria could also potentially intercept drones and rockets targeting northern Israel, depending on the location from which they’re launched.

➡️ Gen. Erik Kurilla, the commander of US Central Command, has been in Israel meeting with the country’s security leadership. On Friday, the Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, met with Kurilla.

➡️ There have been a number of conversations where US officials have urged Israel not to escalate the situation in retaliating against Iran, according to one of the US officials.

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Pro-Assad observers claim that US Army deployed Air Defense Batteries along the Jordanian-Iraqi border, near the Al-Tanf military base

https://fxtwitter.com/aali4573/status/1778871158730874988

🇨🇦📞🇮🇱🇵🇸 — Dominion of Canada's foreign minister call all its citizens to 'avoid all travel' to Israel and the West Bank, says Canadians already there 'should consider leaving by commercial means'.

🇨🇦📞🇮🇱🇵🇸 — Dominion of Canada's foreign minister says Middle East security situation is 'highly volatile' and 'could escalate without notice'

🇧🇷🇧🇷🚫👤❌ — 💰 The Brazilian government's Secretariat of Communications (Secom) has suspended institutional advertising on 𝕏 following a dispute between Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes and Elon Musk

‼️ Since the beginning of Lula's government in 2023, the Palácio do Planalto has spent over R$ 4.2 million on advertising on the platform. This amount does not include what was invested by ministries and public companies such as Banco do Brasil and Correios.

❌ The suspension of institutional advertising on the platform will be maintained until the government decides whether there will be a permanent cut in investment resources on the social network.

☄️ The government has been targeted by a campaign from Sleeping Giants (funded by the Open Society) to cut advertising on 𝕏 since Elon Musk's criticism over the weekend. The movement also called on the Ministry of Health and companies such as Banco do Brasil, Petrobras, and Caixa Econômica Federal to stop advertising on the platform.

➡️ The Deputy Attorney General of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU), Lucas Furtado, has also been attempting to take action against other companies owned by the billionaire in Brazil.

⁉️ Recently, he requested an investigation into SpaceX's business in the country, as well as an assessment of the possibility of prohibiting 𝕏 from operating in the national territory.

🇺🇸🗳📃 — 📰 AF Post: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson introduces a bill requiring voters to prove they are citizens of the US at a press conference with Donald Trump.

The bill would require non-citizens to be removed from voter rolls.

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🇺🇸❌🇷🇺🥈🥇 — The United States has introduced a ban on the import of aluminum, copper and nickel of Russian origin, the Ministry of Finance reported.

🇵🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇱 Top IDF commander in aid strike wanted to block humanitarian supplies into Gaza

⬛️ Investigation shows officer signed a letter to Israel’s War Cabinet demanding a ‘siege’ of Gaza City

🔶️ The most senior IDF commander dismissed for his role in the drone strike which killed seven aid workers in Gaza is a settler who signed an open letter in January calling for the territory to be deprived of aid, The Telegraph can reveal.

🔶️ Col (Res) Nochi Mandel, the chief of staff of the Nahal Infantry Brigade, was one of two officers dismissed last week following the incident in which three vehicles belonging to the charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) were attacked by drones, killing all those inside, including three Britons.

🇮🇱 In the letter, Col Mandel, a religious nationalist who lives in a settlement in the occupied West Bank, called with more than 130 other reserve officers and commanders for the flow of aid into Gaza to be restricted.

🔶️ The letter was sent on January 20 to the Israeli War Cabinet and the IDF chief of staff and implored them to “do everything in your power” not to allow “humanitarian supplies and the operation of hospitals inside Gaza City” following its evacuation.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/israel-hamas-war-gaza-idf-aid-strike-world-central-kitchen/

https://archive.ph/O9d4w

🇵🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇱 Here is the letter signed by 130+ IDF commanders & officers requesting the Israeli War Cabinet to impose a blockade against humanitarian aid from entering Gaza. And to indefinitely remove Palestinian residents from Gaza.

🔶️ "In the north of the Gaza Strip and Ezi we must ensure a complete blockade of the corridor at the base of Nahal Gaza (on ground and underground)."

🔶️ "As soon as the aforementioned process is completed, we must assure the residents of Gaza City that they will not be able to return to their homes until further notice."

🔶️ "The abductees will not return to their home, such a simple and so demanding equation, there is no reason for Ahmed to return to his home in Gaza City before Ziv and Gali return to their home in Kfar Gaza."

🔶️ "Members of the War Cabinet, we expect you to do everything in your power to make sure that the IDF completes the work of evacuating residents from Gaza City, does not allow humanitarian supplies and the operation of hospitals inside Gaza City, and that the evacuated residents do not return to their homes as long as the abductees do not return to their homes."

🔶️ "As far as we understand And after we have made several inquiries on the subject, it is permissible and legal according to the laws of armed conflict, to impose a siege on a certain area and this on the condition that evacuation corridors are allowed for the citizens in it, therefore there is nothing inconsistent with international law in adopting this vital strategy on which recommend It is true in Arabic, it is true militarily, it is true in terms of international law and it is true politically."

https://ynet-pic1.yit.co.il/picserver5/wcm_upload_files/2024/01/21/S1mT5hcKp/merged.pdf

🇮🇷🪖⚠️ — 📰 Al-Arabiya: Two sources told CNN: Washington noted that Iran is moving military assets, including aircrafts and cruise missiles

https://fxtwitter.com/AlArabiya_Brk/status/1778954135037002092

🇮🇷❌🇮🇱❗️ — 📰 Two sources told CNN: Iran’s movement of military assets indicates the possibility of its readiness to attack Israel

https://fxtwitter.com/AlArabiya_Brk/status/1778955359979221390

🇮🇷❌🇮🇱❗️ — 📰 Al-Arabiya: Two sources told CNN: The United States noted that Iran is preparing approximately 100 cruise missiles

https://fxtwitter.com/AlArabiya_Brk/status/1778954963969847442