— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: The IDF Spokesperson's Unit reported on Friday that troops located and dismantled a Hamas tunnel over one kilometer long near Rafah.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Reports of another 'difficult incident,' this time in the 'Netzarim' corridor, with an unconfirmed number of dead and wounded IDF troops.

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— 🇺🇸 NEW: National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby calls reports of ceasefire negotiations collapsing 'inaccurate,' says 'progress has been made.'

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— 🇾🇪 Yemen's Ansarullah has targeted a total of 182 ships since October.

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— 🇮🇱 NEW: Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant calls Itamar Ben-Gvir 'irresponsible,' says he 'poses a threat to Israel’s national security.'

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— 🇺🇸 NEW: On Truth Social, Trump has gone as far as blaming Kamala Harris for October 7.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Noa Argamani, former Israeli prisoner who was held by Hamas, said she was not beaten during her captivity, but rather sustained injuries when the building she was in was bombed by the Israeli Air Force.

Argamani accused the Israeli media of taking her words out of context and misrepresenting the situation in an attempt to use it as propaganda.

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— 🇮🇱/🇸🇾 BREAKING: Reports of airstrikes in Homs, Syria, probably the Israeli Air Force

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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Al-Qassam Brigades attack IDF gatherings in the 'Netzarim' corridor with a 'Zouari' suicide drone, named after the late Tunisian aerospace engineer who helped Hamas develop drones.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇺🇦 NEW: The Biden administration has appointed Mira Resnick, a Jewish official with deep involvement in weapons transfers to Israel and Ukraine, to a new State Department role.

This move has drawn criticism from former State Department official Annelle Sheline, who resigned from her post in March.

In an interview in October, Resnick stated:

“I've been interested in foreign policy for as long as I can remember. The U.S.-Israel relationship was a private focus in my household because of my Jewish background, but also because we were just a politically aware family.”

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— 🇮🇪/🇮🇱 NEW: The Irish Times reports that Ireland will allow Israeli arms companies to sell weapons to the country. The Irish Defence Forces plan to acquire 14 drones worth $670,000 over the next year.

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— 🇸🇾/🇮🇱 NEW: As a result of the Israeli attack on Homs, 7 civilians were injured. Syrian Air Defense was activated and intercepted some of the missiles.

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— 🇺🇸 BREAKING: Robert F Kennedy Jr. to withdraw from presidential race and endorse Donald Trump.

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— 🇺🇸 The Commission on U.S. National Defense Strategy reports that the winner of the November U.S. presidential election will face the most challenging strategic situation since 1945.

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— 🇺🇸 Correction: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will not suspend his campaign fully, but he will withdraw his name from the ballot in the battleground states & encourages his supporters to vote for Trump in those states

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MUST WATCH: The Yemeni Navy published scenes of the “SOUNION” ship in the Red Sea after it was targeted for violating the ban to israeli ports.

— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 WATCH: Israeli soldiers film themselves invading 'Bani Saleh' mosque and ripping copies of the Qur'an.

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— 🇮🇷/🇺🇸 NEW: Meta reports Iranian hacker group 'APT42' targeted WhatsApp accounts of officials in the Trump and Biden administrations.

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— 🇵🇸/🇪🇬 NEW: A Hamas delegation will arrive in Cairo this evening to discuss the latest Gaza ceasefire talks with mediators.

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