🇦🇫🇵🇸Taliban leaders and hamas polticial bureau leader Ismail hanniya during Iran's president funeral.

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧🇵🇸- Gantz: Prepare from now on to return the residents of the Galilee to their homes safely, by force or by settlement, by next September

🇮🇱🇪🇺🇺🇸❌🇵🇸- The head of the CIA will meet with the head of the Mossad in a European capital to discuss the exchange deal.

🇮🇱❌🇹🇷-A shooting operation in the center of Istanbul and the talk about Israeli injuries and deaths.
Initial report.

🇮🇱🇺🇸Speaker of the US House of Representatives:

We will soon host the Israeli Prime Minister to attend a joint session of Congress

🇨🇳❌🇹🇼❗️ — 📰 PRC State Media, Global Times on Twitter/X:

➡️ The Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army continues to conduct the "Joint Sword-2024A" military exercise around the Taiwan Straits on Friday.

➡️ This exercise involves integrated operations within and outside the island chain, testing the capabilities of joint seizure of power, joint strikes, and key area control: Li Xi, spokesperson for the theater command

🔗 Global Times (@globaltimesnews)

🇰🇪 🤝 🇺🇸 Kenya to get major non-NATO ally status during president’s US state visit

🔶️ President Joe Biden will extend major non-NATO ally status to Kenya during the three-day state visit by the African country’s leader this week, two U.S. officials confirmed.

🔶️ Kenya will become the first sub-Saharan nation to receive the designation, which allows the recipient country to obtain more sophisticated weaponry from the United States and engage in closer security cooperation.

🇷🇺 🇨🇳 The growing bond between Washington and Nairobi comes as the Biden administration worries about China’s growing sway on the African continent, in addition to Russia’s ties with Kenya. Even though Biden has yet to travel to the continent, as he promised to do, the major non-NATO ally status might serve as a consolation and sign of intent.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/22/kenya-non-nato-ally-status-visit-00159578

🇷🇺🔒📃 — By Russian court decision, the head of the department of defense procurement of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Vladimir Verteletsky, was arrested.

➡️ He is accused of abuse of official powers when fulfilling a government order, causing damage to the state in the amount of 70 million rubles.

🇮🇱🇺🇸❌🇵🇸🇺🇳- The decision of the ICJ in regards to the war in Gaza will be made today, most likely, either to announce a cessation of war, or to announce a cessation of the Rafah operation alone.

These are the two most likely options according to Israel's estimates, and both are non-binding, except after the approval of the Security Council.

If the court makes a ceasefire decision, the Security Council will meet to vote, and we will be facing a fourth time in which America uses its veto power against stopping the war (most likely).

But if the court takes the decision to stop the Rafah operation, the Security Council will also meet to vote, but America will most likely not use its veto power for that.

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸- Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich:

The costs of the war will reach at least 250 billion shekels.

(Equivalent to 70b USD $)