⚡️LIKE ALL FIREWORKS WENT OFF AT ONCE as 10s of rockets erupt from Gaza Strip (top vid), trailing lines of smoke on their way to Israeli city of Ashkelon (bottom right map).

Sky over Ashkelon looks like mad scribbles as Iron Dome anti-air attempts to shoot down incoming barrage of rockets (bottom left vid), while flames erupt from parked cars as warheads make way past defenses (bottom center vid).

Hamas had given people in Ashkelon hours of warning before starting strikes, adding that if Israel doesn’t end policy of "civilian displacement", Hamas will continue to DESTROY Ashkelon and move on to other cities.

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⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇱FIRE FROM 2 FRONTS as at least 6 rockets launched at Israel from Lebanon, with warheads landing in Northern town of Shlomi (pic and map above).

Israeli forces opening up with artillery as they return fire on Southern Lebanon, with unverified reports of fighters entering Israel from Lebanon.

UPDATE: Reports of up to 16 rockets fired into Israel from Lebanon.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦Russian forces advancing towards key town in bid to cut Ukrainian supplies.

Watch missiles race toward enemy in vid as Russian army fights for Berdychi (see map), Donetsk (ex-Ukraine) to block Ukrainian supplies heading to Avdeevka, from where Kiev shells civilians in Donetsk.

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🇮🇱"BABIES WITH HEADS CUT OFF" (00:17 in top vid) is what Israeli forces claim to have found in Kfar Aza Kibbutz (bottom right map) as reporter’s voice trembles while she recounts stories of soldiers discovering beheaded infants after Hamas fighters attacked community.

Western media given heavily-guarded tour of kibbutz while Israeli journalists yet to be allowed on site.

Latest death toll stands at over 1,000 Israelis and over 770 Palestinians following Hamas's surprise attack.

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⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇱AIR-BURSTING WHITE PHOSPHORUS over South Lebanon as deadly stars float to ground and ignite - weapon burns and incinerates upon contact with everything around it, including people.

Israel claims it’s responding to rockets fired from Lebanon, and it’s targeting Hezbollah positions with shells and even tanks.

Tel Aviv's already been ILLEGALLY using white phosphorus in densely-populated areas of Gaza Strip.

UPDATE: Palestinian Foreign Ministry blasts Israeli forces for using "internationally-prohibited" white phosphorus shells.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱"WE STAND WITH ISRAEL" says Sleepy Joe TWICE as he tries to get statement into his own thick skull (00:04 in top vid), adding that Washington’s gonna help Tel Aviv "respond" to Hamas.

Biden’s doing his best to keep his eyes open and read teleprompter as he confirms that US will send military aid to Tel Aviv (bottom vid), insisting that MORE American forces could be on their way to Israel "if necessary".

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🇮🇱🆚🇮🇱FRIENDLY FIRE MOMENT: Gunfire echoes as soldiers use cars for cover in left vid, with firefights erupting in Israeli city of Ashdod (right map).

BUT reports that over-eager Israeli forces mistake their own for Hamas fighters and open up on 1 another, leaving at least 2 Israeli troopers wounded in gun battle before they realize...

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