— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 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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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: The International Criminal Court prosecutor requested that judges urgently decide on arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, stating the court has jurisdiction to investigate Israeli nationals.

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— 🇶🇦/🇮🇷 NEW: Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani to visit Iran in the coming days, Tasnim reports.

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— 🇷🇺/🇮🇱 NEW: A Russian court has sentenced five men to over six years in prison each for their roles in an 'anti-Israel riot' at an airport in Dagestan last October.

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— 🇱🇧/🇮🇱 NEW: The Lebanese Health Ministry reported 2,412 casualties, including 564 deaths, as of data up to August 20.

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— 🇫🇷 NEW: An explosion occurred near the 'Beth Yaacov' synagogue in La Motte near Montpellier, southern France, injuring a police officer.

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— 🇷🇺/🇺🇦/🇦🇪 NEW: Russia and Ukraine conducted a prisoner exchange, with 115 prisoners from each side released, mediated by the United Arab Emirates.

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— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Hebrew media reports a cyber attack on the Knesset website, with hackers sending threatening SMS messages to Israeli settlers from the Knesset. The website domain currently redirects to an error page.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Israeli shelling targeted the headquarters of World Central Kitchen in Deir al-Balah, resulting in injuries to their staff.

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— 🇵🇸 NEW: Anwar El Ghazi, Dutch-Moroccan footballer, will donate €500,000, one-third of his payout, to children in Gaza.

The club Mainz 05 had terminated his contract over a social media post supporting Palestine, but a German court ruled the termination was unlawful.

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