🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — Minister of national security of Israel, Ben Gvir, calls for displacement of Gazans by “encouraging immigration” and establishing Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip.

🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 — 📰Haaretz Israeli newspaper quoting foreign diplomats:

➡️We are having difficulty gathering reliable field information from the northern Gaza Strip.

➡️Several Western countries have approached Israel since the start of the Jabalia operation to find out whether it is implementing the generals’ plan (starving and emptying the northern Gaza Strip).

➡️Western countries' fears of displacement in the northern Gaza Strip have been reinforced after Israel prevented the entry of humanitarian aid.

➡️Israel has made it clear to us that it will not implement the generals' plan, but we find it difficult to believe that given the army's field practices.

🇲🇩🇪🇺 Moldova has voted in favor of joining the European Union by a narrow margin, with 50.4% of voters supporting the constitutional amendment and 49.6% opposing it.

As of Monday morning, with 99.9% of votes counted, the referendum outcome was confirmed after a tense night where the "no" campaign initially led.


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🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — Hezbollah has published a footage of targeting a group of 8 Israeli soldiers using two Iranian "ALMAS-3" ATGMs (reverse engineered of Israeli spike).

📝In the video, two D9s, an excavator a military jeep, and a truck can be spotted, meaning this is a combat engineering corps, interestingly, Israel haven't announced any Israeli soliders killed since 15th of October 2024 and until today from any of its engineering corps.

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — IDF spokeman Daniel Hagari:

Hezbollah keeps half a billion dollars worth of cash and gold in a tunnel under the Sahel hospital in Harik

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — An Israeli airstrike near the entrance of “Hariri Hospital” in Beirut.

🇨🇳 China has an automated cruise missile factory that can produce over 1000 missiles a day working in 3 shifts according to CCTV Chinese media.

China's large military industrial capacity is likely to sustain a war effort for much longer than its adversaries.

📝: It's 1000 cruise missile "components" not completed missiles, but that doesn't really say where the choke point is, there could be other factories limited to churning 500 X components, or there could be multiple factories making 5000 X components.

My personal assessment is it's more credible than not, because this is close to the smash to win button for 1st island chain, i.e. anything within 1500km. PRC is good at value engineering, these missiles don't have to be high reliability ordnances. This isn't US who has to spend billions in logistics just to hoof weapons into theatre, so need to engineer for low dud rates. I wouldn't be surprised if these are like low 6 digit cheap or less when produced at scale involved, maybe even 5 digit vs inputs/components compared to EVs, and there's no reason not to start hammering them out instead of letting machines sit idle and depreciate unproductively.

If a few weeks days of production basically trivially saturates any missile defense in 1st island chain, another week can lock down airfields, ports, continuously degrade infra, then why would PRC not? It makes so much sense. Unlike planes and ships, intelligence/OSINT can't count from satellite, 100,000s missiles can go straight from assembling plant to storage to obfuscate build up. Load it into a cheap launcher system that can be slapped onto any light/medium vehicle for dispersal.

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