Netanyahu:

Many leaders around the world tell me, "Prime Minister, we appreciate you. We even admire you, and we need you."

They tell me, "Israel is our model in the struggle against radical Islam that threatens the entire civilized world."

I hear it in our region, in Europe, in Latin America, and across all the continents.

Netanyahu:

Zionism has won.

Benjamin Ze'ev Herzl, has won.

We are winning.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan:

Hamas has fulfilled many of its obligations, but in contrast, we see that Israel is always acting as a spoiler.

Israel uses another issue as an excuse to constantly kill Palestinian children, bomb hospitals, and show that it has nothing to do with peace.

Netanyahu:

Israel's existence is not subject to negotiation—whether there is an agreement or not.

Israel is a strong nation-state, proud of its identity and confident in the justice of its path.

Netanyahu:

We will not establish a Palestinian terror state, because we know it would be aimed at destroying the nation-state of the Jewish people.

We understand that they seek to destroy us because we promote the values of progress, democracy, freedom, and liberty.

Wildberries—Russia's dominant e-commerce platform—may need up to about 1.3 trillion rubles (roughly $16 billion) to stabilize and rebuild after Ukrainian drone strikes destroyed or heavily damaged at least 14 logistics hubs.

The company's own direct losses could exceed 100 billion rubles (around $1.2 billion), reaching 200 billion (about $2.5 billion) in a worst case.

Source: The Bell

Dutch Far-right figure Geert Wilders:

I've been in Jerusalem almost more than in Amsterdam in my life.

But this is something we should do.

Dutch Far-right figure Geert Wilders:

We will never stop supporting Israel and fighting for Israel.

Multiple videos show mass Russian Iskander ballistic missile launches toward Kyiv and surrounding areas.

More launch footage appeared in one day than from all previous strikes combined.

Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett:

Netanyahu is facing war-crimes accusations in The Hague. IDF commanders are facing war-crimes accusations. Your son is afraid to travel around the world.

That's Qatar. And we're doing nothing about it. It's absurd.

I expect every leader in Israel to say clearly: Qatar is an enemy.

Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett:

Qatar is killing Israeli citizens. Qatar is killing our soldiers.

Some Al Jazeera personnel were among the first Nukhba forces that attacked us.

China successfully launched two Oriental Smart Eye (OSE) hyperspectral satellites aboard a Smart Dragon-3 rocket from a sea-based platform near Haiyang, Shandong, on August 5, 2026.

Equipped with advanced hyperspectral imaging and onboard AI processors, the satellites can analyze land, water, vegetation, and minerals directly in orbit, reducing data processing time from days to minutes.

Together, they provide global coverage every five days and will support environmental monitoring, agriculture, and disaster management, including crop monitoring projects in Indonesia and Uzbekistan.

Source: Xinhua

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud:

Jerusalem—a city cherished by the hearts of millions of Muslims, Christians, and Jews—must be a city of peace and coexistence, not an arena of conflict or the imposition of a fait accompli.

Yemen's Houthis say they struck the Saudi oil tanker Daisy in the Gulf of Aden with a ballistic missile, forcing it to turn back.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

They had planned to take over Iran within 48 hours, just as they did Syria.

Despite all the hardships and challenges, today Iran is spoken of as a powerful country with great dignity and honor.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

The martyred Leader had agreed that Iranians living abroad should not face any problems if they returned.

Even if someone had an issue, we should tell them to come back—not arrest them when they arrive here.

Iran is considered home for every Iranian, and the plan was to establish a mechanism so that every Iranian could travel to and from the country freely.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

No matter how much I think about it, I cannot find any logical reason why they killed our Leader, our commanders, and our scientists.

Many of our commanders and scientists who were killed did not even own a home.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

Nobody can get it out of their mind that a large number of our young people died, were martyred, some were injured, and some lost some of their limbs.

Well, this was very bad... I still can't forget that incident. Our work shouldn't have reached this point.

Of course, that cowardly Trump himself said that we had armed these people and that we were supporting them. And well, it was clear that they were doing this.

But some innocent people were mixed with these. In fact, we had problems and we still do. Some are rightly raising their problems and some in the middle want to implement their own sinister and dirty intentions.

And this causes the process to be a bit mixed. It is said that truth is a decorated house, and passion and desire are the dust that has risen; you won't see it because of the dust, and the eye will not see, even though the man is clear-sighted.

When the issue turns into this process of rebellion, man can no longer distinguish well between friend and foe, and the process reaches a point where difficult events occur.

You look at these people sitting abroad, they present themselves as compassionate and knowledgeable, and sometimes they adopt such intellectual and scholarly personas that one might think it's truly so.

Exaggerating a three-digit number to thirty or forty thousand and then inciting people, this shows how cowardly and treacherous they are.

Q: You know that some divide people into "insiders" and 'outsiders.' From your perspective, who are 'the people'?

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

"The people" are all those who live in this country, regardless of their ideology, belief, perspective, gender, or ethnicity.

The government has a duty to treat them with justice and truth. Unfortunately, we have many problems in this regard, and reforming this process requires time.

We have survived until now, it is because of the noble people of Iran who held us up.

It wasn't just those in the streets who saved our Iran. It was all these people who see our hardships and endure them for the sake of the country.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

Communicating with Mojtaba Khamenei is very difficult now, but his presence is a significant source of strength for us, allowing us to maintain the process.

In the events they initiated, regarding the message he gave stating that while he was fundamentally opposed, he would now permit it to take shape, a group of people seeking division tried to reopen that rift to pursue their own partisan agendas, constantly magnifying the issue.

What his eminence said was entirely correct. He had a perspective; in the conclusion reached within that same council, a report was recently presented to him, and he stated that if it received three-quarters of the votes, he would accept it. It actually received 12/13ths of the votes, and he accepted.

This act of accepting an expert opinion and deciding accordingly was turned into an excuse by some to create division and make unfair, dishonest claims, attempting to portray others in a certain light.

The Israeli Knesset Finance Committee approved budget transfers that raised the Ministry of Settlement and National Missions' 2026 budget to a record $242 million, reinforcing the government's policy of expanding Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Israel's High Court of Justice temporarily froze the disputed transfers on August 5, pending a ruling on whether the committee was legally convened during the election recess.

Source: The Times of Israel