Chinese Coast Guard bullying in the South China Sea.

Water cannon action have resulted in significant damage to Philippines vessel Datu Tamblot's communication and navigation equipment.

It was directly and deliberately targeted by the China Coast Guard.

Al Jazeera Istanbul Bureau Chief Abdulazim Mohammed:

Erdogan is the only president in the world who was able to call Israel a terrorist state.

He is the only one who described Netanyahu as a criminal and a butcher who must be tried.

He said it and repeated it every day. “We do not care about your opinion about Hamas, which is a resistance movement, not a terrorist movement.”

Erdogan, the president who received the Hamas leadership in light of the current crisis. Who else can do it?

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has met with the Hamas leadership three times since the beginning of the crisis. Hakan Fidan is a man who moves silently and has done a lot for the benefit of Gaza that has not been announced, and the Hamas leadership is the best person to talk about this.

The Director of Turkish Intelligence (MIT) has been in constant communication and coordination with the Hamas leadership since the beginning of the war.

Hamas leadership and cadres manage political and media work from Türkiye with an open roof and under direct orders from Erdogan.

Israeli flag is hoisted in Palestine Square in the center of Gaza City. Destroyed area that became a parking lot for Israeli tanks now.

Israeli casualties in Gaza: (Yedioth Ahronoth)

The number of wounded reaches 60 per day, with 5,000 cases of injury recorded since October 7.

2.000 wounded Israeli soldiers were registered as disabled.

58% of the wounded Israeli army personnel received severe injuries to their arms and legs, and 12% suffered ruptured internal organs.

At least 100 Israeli army wounded went blind.

7% of Israeli army soldiers and officers suffer from direct psychological symptoms.

97 IDF soldiers killed in Gaza. 421 IDF soldiers killed in total since October 7.

Turkish President Erdogan:

In Europe, which is marketed as the cradle of Human Rights, there have been nearly 500 attacks in which the Holy Quran was burned. These vile attacks were carried out under police protection.

Migrant Muslims are undoubtedly the most victimized by xenophobic, racist and fascist practices.

Islamophobia and xenophobia are at the top of the list of threats to human rights in Western societies.

(Western countries) have legitimized, condoned and encouraged anti-Islam and anti-Muslim acts under the pretext of freedom of opinion.

Turkish President Erdogan:

Unfortunately, the ceasefire in Gaza was rejected only with America's veto in the UN. By the U.S. alone. Is this justice?

A fairer world is possible, but not with the U.S.

Russian Kh-55 "decoy" cruise missile fired on Kyiv yesterday.

Russian Aerospace Forces have been using such decoys for a long time and regularly to identify Ukrainian air defense positions, also forcing it to waste expensive Western anti-aircraft missiles.

A very bad Russian decoy made of boxes and sticks in the lens of a Ukrainian FPV drone.

Burkina abandons French as an official language.

Burkinabè government adopted a bill revising the Constitution and henceforth enshrining national languages ​​as official languages ​​in place of French which is relegated to the rank of "working language".

Soldiers from the US Army Recruiting Center misspelled the word "Army" in a parking lot.

"Whoever doing the paint job maybe should've gotten to college".

Ukrainian FPV drone strike on unmanned Russian transport vehicle used to deliver ammunition to Russian infantry in positions near Avdiivka.

Trump’s campaign website contains a single cryptic sentence:

“We have to finish the process we began under my administration of fundamentally re-evaluating NATO’s purpose and NATO’s mission.”

He and his team refuse to elaborate.

That vague line has generated enormous uncertainty and anxiety among European allies and American supporters of the country’s traditional foreign-policy role.

European ambassadors and think tank officials have been making pilgrimages to associates of Mr. Trump to inquire about his intentions. At least one ambassador, Finland’s Mikko Hautala, has reached out directly to Mr. Trump and sought to persuade him of his country’s value to NATO as a new member.

In interviews over the past several months, more than a half-dozen current and former European diplomats — speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution from Mr. Trump should he win — said alarm was rising on Embassy Row and among their home governments that Mr. Trump’s return could mean not just the abandonment of Ukraine, but a broader American retreat from the continent and a gutting of the Atlantic alliance.

The interviews with current and former diplomats revealed that European officials were mostly out of ideas for how to deal with Mr. Trump other than returning to a previous playbook of flattery and transactional tributes.

Smaller countries that are more vulnerable to Russian attacks are expected to try to buy their way into Mr. Trump’s good graces by increasing their orders of American weapons or — as Poland did during his term — by performing grand acts of adulation, including offering to name a military base Fort Trump in return for his placing a permanent presence there.

Source: NYT

Russian Foreign Ministry says lasting peace in Ukraine is possible only if the West stops transferring weapons and it accepts "new territorial realities."

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim:

The vote for a ceasefire and humanitarian aid to Gaza is vetoed because 168 countries voted yes and the US voted no.

The fate of all countries is in the hands of only 5 countries.

German Chancellor Scholz:

If assistance from other countries weakens, then Germany should be ready to increase support for Ukraine.

This was the moment when the US vetoed the UN resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek:

We live now in a world that no longer respects the most basic rules. It reminds me Antonio Gramsci’s very famous quote:

He says: “The old world is dying. The new world is struggling to be born. Now, it is the time of monsters.”

The old world, the rule-based post WW2 is behind us. There’s no even respect to most basic rules anymore.

Look at what’s happening in Gaza. Look at some countries stance. They cannot even call for a ceasefire. They cannot even have the courage to call for a ceasefire.

We don’t have a substitute yet. Because a hegemon power and arising superpower and many other players are actually trying to see how this new system is shaped. And that brings about a lot of uncertainty in doing business, but also in general for global economy.

IDF entered Khalifa School in Beit Lahia (north of the Gaza Strip) where large numbers of displaced people are still besieged, and demanded that all males over the age of 15 in the school come out.

Urban clashes in Gaza by IDF’s lens.

Intense use of M203 grenade launchers and the MATADOR rocket launcher.

Deputy US ambassador to the UN plays with his phone while Palestinian envoy is speaking.

#BREAKING U.S. has approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Israel of 13,981 120mm M830A1 High Explosive Anti-Tank Multi-Purpose with Tracer (MPAT) tank cartridges and related equipment for an estimated cost of $106.5 million.