⚡️🇦🇪🇵🇰 The UAE detained and deported thousands of Pakistani workers, many reportedly Shia Muslims, shortly after Pakistan helped broker a U.S.-Iran ceasefire, the New York Times reports. Deportees described sudden arrests, harsh detention conditions, frozen bank accounts, and rapid expulsion without explanation. The matter carries considerable weight as roughly two million Pakistanis work in the UAE and send billions of dollars in remittances home annually.

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⚡️🇶🇦🇮🇷Qatari Foreign Ministry:

💬 We condemn the targeting of a commercial cargo ship by a drone in the country's territorial waters.

➡️This attack is a blatant violation of the principle of freedom of navigation and international law, and a dangerous and unacceptable escalation.

➡️Maritime security is a fundamental pillar of security and stability and must not be compromised under any circumstances.

💬The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister discussed efforts to achieve peace in a phone call with the Iranian Foreign Minister.

🗂During the call with the Iranian Foreign Minister, the Prime Minister affirmed his support for mediation efforts to end the crisis peacefully.

➡️The Prime Minister stressed in a call with Araqchi that closing the Strait of Hormuz or using it as a pressure tactic would deepen the crisis.

➡️During the call with the Iranian Foreign Minister, the Prime Minister stressed the need for all parties to respond to mediation efforts.

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⚡️🇮🇷Major General Gholam Ali Rashid Abdollahi presented a report to Mojtaba Khamenei on the operational readiness of Iran’s armed forces, including the army, IRGC, law enforcement, border forces, Basij, and the Ministry of Defense, according to Farsna.

➡️ Abdollahi said Iranian forces maintain a high level of combat readiness, warning that any “strategic error, aggression, or attack” by what he described as “American-Zionist enemies” would face a “swift, intense, and powerful” response.

➡️ He also pledged continued loyalty to Iran’s leadership and said the armed forces would defend the country’s sovereignty and national interests “to the last breath.”

🖋 Mojtaba Khamenei reportedly praised Iran’s armed forces and issued what were described as new directives aimed at continuing operations and confronting enemies following the “Ramadan war.”

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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇶Iraqi media: Sounds of American warplanes heard over Baghdad, Iraq.

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⚡️🇮🇷🇵🇰🇺🇸IRNA news agency: Tehran sent its response to the text of the American proposal via Pakistan.

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⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇱Hezbollah targets Israeli D9 bulldozer in Bint Jbeil at 13:20 using a surprise attack, achieving a confirmed hit - Hezbollah 4th Operational Statement.

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⚡️🇮🇱🇱🇧The IDF reported that forces from the 146th Division conducted operations over the past week in which approximately 70 targets and more than 30 individuals were struck or neutralized in different engagements.

➡️ In one incident, the military said a person approached Israeli forces and was identified as posing a threat, after which an Israeli Air Force strike was carried out, according to the IDF.

➡️ Separately, the IDF said the Israeli Air Force intercepted several rockets detected in an area of operations in southern Lebanon, with no warning sirens activated in line with established procedure.

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⚡️🇮🇱🇱🇧 Israel’s Northern Command has assessed that current air defense and radar systems are insufficient to fully counter Hezbollah’s use of booby-trapped drones, according to Channel 12.

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⚡️🇮🇱🇱🇧 An Israeli reserve soldier operating in southern Lebanon described the drone threat as “a poker game,” saying there is no effective defensive solution against incoming drones.

🗂 “They arrive very quietly and very fast,” the soldier said, adding that improvised countermeasures, including donated fishing nets and other locally obtained equipment, were being used to mitigate the threat.

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🚨🇮🇱🇵🇸An Israeli Air Force remotely piloted aircraft struck an individual identified by the military as a suspect in placing an explosive device in southern Gaza, in coordination with troops from the Kfir Brigade, according to an IDF operational statement.

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⚡️🇱🇧Hezbollah: Scenes from the operation targeting the Islamic Resistance on 07/08-05-2026, an Iron Dome platform and its crew belonging to the Israeli enemy army at the Jal Al-Alam site on the Lebanese-Palestinian border with two swooping helicopters.

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⚡️🇱🇧 Hezbollah released footage dated 01-05-2026 showing what it says was a targeted strike on an Israeli Merkava tank in the town of Rashaf, southern Lebanon, depicting an ambush-style attack on the armored vehicle, according to the statement.

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⚡️🇮🇷Iran’s response to the U.S. proposal focuses on ending the war and ensuring the safety of maritime navigation in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, according to ISNA News Agency.

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⚡️🇮🇷First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref has ordered supervisory bodies to act decisively against overpricing and hoarding, citing economic pressures linked to sanctions and what he described as the “Ramadan war,” according to Tasnim News.

➡️ He said enforcement agencies are obliged to respond “without leniency” to such practices, while noting that those engaged in hoarding or overpricing represent a small minority.

📊 Aref added that most guilds and producers had reduced profits during the period and contributed resources to support the population and the country, according to the statement.

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⚡️🇮🇱At a Foreign Affairs and Security Committee briefing, the Israeli Chief of Staff warned that the reserve system “will collapse on itself” under what he described as an “unreasonable burden,” amid discussions on planned legislative reforms.

➡️ The remarks were made in the context of proposed IDF-backed legislation, including a draft service law, a revised reserve framework, and the extension of regular military service to three years, according to Channel 12 News.

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⚡️🇮🇷A senior figure in Iran’s technology sector estimates that the ongoing internet shutdown is causing direct and indirect economic losses of up to $80 million per day, according to the New York Times.

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