— 🇮🇱 NEW: Hundreds are intermittently blocking a central Tel Aviv highway and lighting bonfires.

The police is using a water cannon and mounted policemen to disperse protesters. In some areas, violent clashes have broken out between police officers and the protesters. 15 protesters were detained.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇮🇱 U.S. State Department: 'We are still waiting for the Iranian response, and we believe it is coming, but it is hard to estimate when or how'

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: An IRGC Commander says that Iran 'reserves the right to respond' to Haniyeh's assassination in Tehran, and that Iran is conducting psychological warfare by making the entire world wait and guess

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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Al-Qassam Brigades have released a new video announcing that they will show the final messages from the six Israeli hostages who recently died.

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📹 Hezbullah released footage of their successful Almas ATGM on an Israeli army checkpoint KfarYuval.

Several civilian cars used by the Israeli army were parked there. Two soldiers were injured, one critically and one moderately.

— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Al-Qasaam Brigades release the final message recorded by Israeli hostage Eden Yerushalmi before her death.

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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Saraya Al-Quds ambush Israeli forces in the 'Netzarim' corridor by detonating a minefield. A helicopter can be seen evacuating IDF casualties towards the end.

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— 🇾🇪 NEW: Yemen's Ansarullah announce that they targeted the 'BLUE LAGOON I' shuttle tanker ship with missiles and drones, achieving direct hits.

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— 🇬🇧/🇮🇱 NEW: Britain is suspending the sale of various arms components used by Israel in Gaza, citing 'possible breaches of international humanitarian law.'

U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced that 30 licenses, including parts for fighter jets, helicopters, and drones, will be immediately halted.

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— 🇷🇺/🇺🇦 In August, Russia expanded its control over 477 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory, the largest monthly increase since October 2022, based on data from the Institute for the Study of War and analyzed by AFP.

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— 🇺🇸/🇻🇪 NEW: The United States has seized a Dassault Falcon 900EX aircraft used by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, asserting that its purchase violated U.S. sanctions.

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— 🇹🇷/🇺🇸 NEW: Two U.S. military personnel were assaulted by members of the 'Turkey Youth Union,' a nationalist group, in the port city of Izmir, Turkey. Turkish authorities subsequently detained fifteen suspected assailants.

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— 🇹🇷 NEW: Turkey has officially applied to join BRICS.

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— 🇮🇶/🇺🇸 NEW: Iraq’s Prime Minister Al-Sudani stated that ISIS no longer poses a threat to the country during a meeting with Major General Kevin C. Leahy, commander of the coalition forces against ISIS in Iraq.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: President Joe Biden said Netanyahu is not doing enough to secure the release of hostages. He also mentioned he is 'close' to presenting a final deal to the negotiators, and will speak with Netanyahu 'eventually.'

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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Al-Qassam spokesman Abu Obaidah confirmed that following the massacre at the Nuseirat refugee camp on June 8, new instructions were issued to fighters guarding hostages regarding how to respond to Israeli military actions.

He warned that Netanyahu's insistence on 'military pressure' rather than concluding a deal will lead to the death of the remaining hostages.

Previously, he stated that in response to the inhumane torture and sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners, some privileges have been taken away from Israeli hostages.

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— 🇮🇱 NEW: Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi announced that 'Starlink' systems have arrived in Israel and will be installed in local government offices, hospitals, and emergency centers in the north.

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— 🇷🇺/🇮🇷 NEW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov: “We will soon finalize a comprehensive partnership agreement between Russia and Iran.”

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— 🇷🇺/🇮🇷 NEW: Bloomberg reports that European officials believe shipments of ballistic missiles from Iran to Russia will begin within days.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Retired Israeli Major General Yitzhak Brik writes in Haaretz that the IDF lacks the forces to engage in a multi-front war in Gaza, the north, and the West Bank. He notes that the number of tunnels destroyed by the IDF amounts to 'just a few percent,' including those under the Philadelphi and 'Netzarim' corridors.

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— 🇹🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: Turkish media Anadolu Agency reports that Istanbul police have arrested the manager of Mossad's financial network in Turkey.

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