🇷🇺🇺🇸⚡️– Trump says he's not interested in international law, cities being destroyed with 'biblical cruelty' and children's hospitals are being targeted

“In this situation nobody, but us and our allies care about international law” — Russia's FM Lavrov

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇪🇬🇵🇱🇮🇷⚡️– The US has asked Poland to send one of its Patriot missile batteries to the Middle East, but Warsaw has declined.

"Our Patriot batteries are used to protect Polish skies and NATO's eastern flank. We have no plans to relocate them anywhere," Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said.

🇮🇷🇦🇪🇺🇸⚡️– If the UAE continues to participate in US air and missile strikes and continues to host intelligence forces and assist Israel, Iran will target the port of Fujairah and the important oil pipeline transferring oil outside the Strait of Hormuz — Fars News

🇪🇸🇲🇫🇮🇹🇺🇸⚡️– After Spain and Italy, now France is also preventing US military movement in its airspace.

🇨🇳🇵🇰⚡️– In Beijing, China & Pakistan released a joint five-point initiative for peace in the Gulf & Middle East:

1️⃣ Immediate ceasefire & humanitarian access to all affected areas

2️⃣ Early peace talks; respect for sovereignty of Iran & Gulf states; diplomacy over force

3️⃣ Protection of civilians & non-military infrastructure under international law

4️⃣ Security of shipping lanes, especially the Strait of Hormuz

5️⃣ Strengthening role of the United Nations & a UN Charter-based peace framework

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️– Israeli Defense Minister Katz says Israel will occupy a parts of southern Lebanon after the war.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️– Father of an Israeli soldier who died along with three others durring clashes with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon:

"I don't want a heroic son, I just want a son in my home—All I wanted was for you to live... but you returned home in a coffin."

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️BREAKING: Israel is carrying out inhumane bombing on residential neighborhoods in Beirut.

🇱🇧🇫🇷🇹🇷– France has donated 39 VAB armored personnel carrier to the Lebanese army.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️– Lebanese Armed Forces have abandoned their positions in the town of Ain Ebel, Bint Jbeil direction in southern Lebanon after an Israeli offensive.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️– Trump: "Im not thinking about the issue of Iran's uranium stockpile. I know it's buried deep and it's very difficult to extract it."

🇪🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️– Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez condemned the Death Penalty bill passed by Israeli lawmakers against Palestinians, saying that it is a "step closer to apartheid".

🇬🇧🇸🇾⚡️– UK PM Keir Starmer welcomes the new Syrian President Al Sharaa.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️– A rocket launched by Hezbollah has impacted in northern Israel.

🇮🇶🇺🇸⚡️– An American journalist, Shelly Kittleson has been kidnapped by unknown men in Baghdad, Iraq.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️– Prof. John Mearsheimer on Iran War:

"Trump can’t walk away. He’s stuck, he’s looking for a way to win this. The problem is, he can’t fix it. Escalation is not a strategy. The Iranians can outlast us."

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️– Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqhchi:

"There's no truth to the negotiation with a certain party in Iran. The messages are being sent through the Foreign Ministry, and there are contacts between security agencies."

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇸🇦⚡️– IRGC Aerospace Force Commander Majid Moosavi: "Today, we attacked the residence of American pilots and aircrew in Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia, with a drone and a missile, and struck a gathering of 200 people."

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️– USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) and its strike group are being deployed to the Middle East, where they will join the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike groups — WSJ reports.