🇻🇪🇧🇷 Venezuela offers help to Brazil to respond to the rain emergency

On May 3, the Government of Venezuela expressed its solidarity with Brazil for the death of several people in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul (south), due to heavy rains, and offered its support to the neighboring country to address the emergency. caused by precipitation.

" On behalf of President Nicolás Maduro, the government and people of Venezuela, we express our solidarity and offer support to the people and government of Brazil in the face of the effects of the extreme rains in Rio Grande do Sul, which has caused damage and victims in recent hours" , indicated the foreign minister of this Caribbean country, Yván Gil

🏹 🇺🇸 🏭 Per VOA, the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant is now producing more than 36,000 155mm shells per month.

🔶️ Before 2022, the plant produced roughly 7,000 shells per month; the Army aimed to hit 35,000 shells per month by 2027. SCAAP beat that goal by over two years.

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🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 Hamas, in an official statement, states that tomorrow they will send a delegation to Egypt in order to examine and continue developing the deal, and that they received the offer with a positive attitude.

Hamas also states that they are eager to reach a deal that satisfies the demands of the Palestinian people:
- Complete stop of the war.
- Withdrawal of the IDF from all of Gaza.
- The return of all refugees to their homes (inside Gaza).
- A swap deal for prisoners.

The first 2 points are highly problematic for Israel, thus I am very skeptical that a deal will be reached any time soon.

📢 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 Israeli Political official: "Contrary to publications, Israel will under no circumstances agree to the end of the war as part of an agreement to release our hostages."

"As the political echelon decided, the IDF will enter Rafah and destroy the remaining Hamas battalions there - whether or not there will be a temporary respite for the release of our hostages."

⚡️Israel Defense Forces published photos of 282nd "Golan" Artillery Brigade Combat artillery exercises in northern Israel in preparation for a confrontation with Hezbollah.

The IDF has over 1,200 artillery units, including 300 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems.

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian forces reached the northern edge of Arkhanhelske, Donetsk Oblast. They bypassed Novokalynove and Keramik from the east.

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