Dancing in the Skies – USA vs. PLA

Pentagon released a collection of declassified footage depicting recent cases of “coercive and risky operational behavior by the PLA against U.S. aircraft” in the East and South China Sea regions.

Intense IDF airstrikes on Gaza earlier this morning.

Türkiye and Estonia Seal around $200 Million Armored Vehicle Deal

Nurol Makina will supply the NMS 4x4 vehicle, while Otokar has been contracted to provide the 6x6 ARMA vehicle.

Following a competitive tender process, both contracts were secured by Turkish companies.

The agreement stipulates the delivery of a total of 230 vehicles to Estonia within a two-year timeframe.

Former Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz:

It will take a long time. The war in the south — and if need be also in the north or anywhere else — might take months, and the rebuilding will take years.

Only when [the rebuilding] is complete will we be victorious.

Our goal is not just to defeat Hamas, but to promise that the south will be 100% paradise.

Al-Mayadeen reports three UAVs targeted the US base in al-Tanf, Syria.

Russian FM Lavrov:

Russia is ready to discuss and consider Türkiye’s initiative to create a system of guarantor countries for the parties to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Moscow and Ankara are in contact on this issue.

Biden denies reports that "the US military will join in helping Israel fight if Hezbollah attacks:

"This is not true, it was never said."

Bloomberg:

Biden will ask Congress for $100 billion in aid to Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel.

Iran's Chief of General Staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri:

The patience of nations and the resistance forces is running thin in the face of the barbarity of the occupation.

No one will be able to stop them if their patience runs out.

"The IDF is the most moral army in the world."

Former Israeli Minister of the Interior Ayelet Shaked says Israel is "fighting monsters."

Russians testing a new experimental quadcopter with X-shaped tail.

This reportedly increases range and smoothness is achieved while maintaining maneuverability.

Kazakhstan has stopped supplying Russia with 106 types of goods due to Western sanctions against Russia.

These are military goods including drones, internal parts, specialized electronics, chips and similar products.

Reuters, citing sources:

“Israel doesn't have an endgame for Gaza. Their strategy is to drop thousands of bombs, destroy everything and go in, but then what? They have no exit strategy for the day after.”

Codenamed "Operation Swords of Iron", the military campaign will be “unmatched in its ferocity and unlike anything Israel has carried out in Gaza in the past”, according to eight regional and Western officials with knowledge of the conflict.

Turkish MoD source:

U.S. officials told their Turkish counterparts that aircraft carriers moved closer to Israel in the eastern Mediterranean were sent there for the “possible evacuation of civilians”.

Major General Jihad Muheisen, commander of the Palestinian National Security Forces in the Gaza Strip, and his family were killed in a bombing of his house in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza.

Russian Army is getting obliterated by Ukrainian forces near Avdiivka for days.

Stickers with Hamas logo and the words “France, you're next” spotted in Paris.

Jordanian King Abdullah arrives in Cairo to hold discussions with the Egyptian President Sisi on Gaza.

The first female member of the Hamas Political Bureau, Jamila al-Shanti, was killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza overnight.

Azerbaijani forces captured 1 x Russian-made Repellent-1 EW system and 1 x Pole-21M jamming system from Armenia-backed disbanded Karabakh forces.

Palestinian doctor in front of the bodies of children:

"What are these children guilty of?"