Prior to last week’s Executive Order signed by President Donald J. Trump, which established the Department of War (DoW) as an official alias for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD); Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced a bill in the Senate to officially change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

Soldiers with the Israel Defense Force and Border Guard have raided the homes of and arrested several family members of the two terrorists who carried out today’s shooting attack in Jerusalem, within the villages of Ktaneh and Al-Qubeiba in the West Bank.

Following an evacuation order issued earlier today by the Israel Defense Force for a high-rise residential building in Gaza City, which the IDF claimed to have contained Hamas terror infrastructure; the Israeli Air Force carried out several strikes against the building resulting in its total collapse.

Spain has officially recalled its ambassador from Israel, as the diplomatic crisis between the two countries deepen, with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announcing Monday a permanent ban on the sale of weapons and ammunition to Israel as part of a package of measures aimed at “stopping the genocide” in Gaza. In response, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar accused the Spanish Government of being “antisemitic,” banning Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz and Youth Minister Sira Rego from entering Israel, citing their “support for terrorism and violence against Israelis.”

Hostile drone intrusion alerts now to the west of the Dead Sea in Central Israel.

Helicopters with the Israeli Air Force seen patrolling to the south of Jerusalem, following several drone alerts within the last few minutes in Central Israel.

CH-53D “Sea Stallions” with the Israeli Air Force seen chasing a Houthi one-way attack drone earlier over Central Israel.

According to the Israel Defense Force, the drone alerts which sounded earlier near the Dead Sea to the south of Jerusalem were false alarms.

A U.S. Navy MH-60R “Seahawk” Multi-Mission Helicopter assigned to the “Magicians” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 35 (HSM-35), likely attached to the USS Lake Erie (CG-70) or another naval vessel currently deployed to the Southern Caribbean, was spotted a short while ago roughly 170 miles off the coast of Venezuela.

Former Deputy Director of Moldova’s Intelligence and Security Service (SIS), Alexandru Bălan, aged 47, was arrested today at Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport in Romania, on charges of treason, accused of selling state secrets and national security information on Romania to agents with the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus.

For the second time in nine months, the French Government has collapsed, with Prime Minister François Bayrou losing a vote of no-confidence today in the National Assembly by 364-577, forcing him to tender his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron, who will now be forced to choose to either select his third prime minister, call a new parliamentary election, or call a presidential election in France.