🇱🇧: 🇵🇸 | West Bank and southern Lebanon are facing escalating levels of destruction, bombardment, and ongoing violence, with no clear or effective solution in sight:

Southern Lebanon continues to endure massive strikes and widespread devastation, with towns and villages repeatedly targeted and entire areas suffering severe structural irreparable damage. Civilian infrastructure, homes, and local networks are being steadily eroded under continuous bombing, creating a situation of prolonged instability and displacement. The pattern increasingly resembles the level of destruction seen in Gaza, while regional and international responses remain limited, fragmented, and largely ineffective in altering the trajectory on the ground.

At the same time, alongside the ongoing situation in Gaza, the West Bank is witnessing a parallel destruction, with intensified terror military operations, expanding settlement activity, and rising levels of structural and social disruption that many describe as becoming normalized through repetition.

In the West Bank, a major incursion was reported at Joseph’s Tomb shrine east of Nablus, where thousands of settlers entered the site under heavy protection from Israeli forces. The incursion included organized prayers and religious ceremonies, with participation from Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and settler leaders. Participants issued calls for establishing a permanent settler presence at the site, framing the move as part of broader efforts to consolidate Israeli control over the West Bank. This development sits within a wider pattern that includes checkpoints, settlement expansion, land confiscation, house demolitions, forced displacement, settler violence, mass arrests, abductions, and repeated assaults across multiple areas.

Simultaneously, Israeli forces conducted coordinated incursions and arrest operations across several locations in the West Bank, including Balata refugee camp east of Nablus, Attil town north of Tulkarm, and Hableh town south of Qalqilya. These operations are contributing to sustained instability, with recurring disruptions to civilian life, movement restrictions, and continued tension across urban and rural areas.

Overall, the situation across southern Lebanon and the West Bank reflects a widening and interconnected pattern of escalation, where repeated cycles of destruction and military activity continue with limited prospects for de escalation or a political resolution.

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🇮🇷 / 🇮🇳 | Gharibabadi Meets India’s Director General for West Asia Affairs:

Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, who is visiting New Delhi, held talks with Sibi George, Director General for West Asia at India’s Ministry of External Affairs.

The two sides discussed bilateral and regional issues, including recent developments in the region.

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🥀 | Now it is confirmed. After years of war, continuous crimes, the fall of commanders, leaders, and entire fronts, it is now undeniable that the world will never return to being normal or simple again.

Before the Al Aqsa war, many of us still carried a feeling deep inside that if massacres, slaughter, and oppression ever reached such unimaginable levels in front of the eyes of the entire digital world, humanity would never allow it to continue for long. There was a belief that global outrage, public pressure, and international narratives would eventually force change. We thought the world still had limits. We thought there were lines that could never be crossed openly.

But over time the world we depended on became desensitized, distracted, and morally exhausted. The difference between suffering and normality has now become fully established. There is now a visible wall between the victims and the rest of humanity. On one side of the wall, massacres continue, thousands die, infants are crushed beneath rubble, children are torn apart, families are buried alive, and people scream for days beneath collapsed buildings waiting for help that never comes.

On the other side of the wall, life continues normally. Lavish malls remain full, restaurants glow under soft lights, expensive coffee is served, music plays, and people casually scroll through videos of unbearable suffering between entertainment clips and advertisements. The screams of entire nations have become background noise to the modern world.

We are no longer living in the pre war era. The world has fundamentally changed. People have understood everything, seen everything, and accepted everything.

That is why perhaps the most unbelievable things no longer shock the world. Even when Sayyid Ali Khamenei was assassinated in broad daylight, the world remained normal. Markets stayed open. Flights continued. Cafes remained crowded. Reactions faded within hours into statements, hashtags, ceremonies, and controlled outrage.

Unfortunately, beyond the resistance movements themselves, even much of the Muslim world responded with silence, ritualized mourning, or symbolic gestures that changed nothing on the ground. The rage that once could have shaken governments and streets now feels fragmented, exhausted, and contained.

Will we ever become normal again?

Will our hearts ever move the way they once did? Will we ever feel inspired enough to dream again? These years have taken everything from us. They took our homes, our villages, our families, our safety, and even our understanding of humanity itself.

Can people who watched entire bloodlines erased ever truly return to ordinary life? Can someone who has seen mothers carrying the remains of their children in plastic bags ever think about a peaceful future the same way again? Can those who survived endless funerals, displacement, bombardment, prisons, humiliation, and loss still imagine a life beyond vengeance, grief, or pain?

And while all this happens, the world moves on without hesitation.

To even think independently has become dangerous. To express anger against those killing your people can cost you your freedom, your career, your safety, or your future. It feels as if the world has placed its hands over its ears while you scream. And if your scream becomes too loud, there is always a prison cell waiting for you, a label prepared for you, or a system ready to erase you.

Perhaps this is the cruelest realization of all. Not only that the massacres continue, but that humanity learned how to continue living comfortably beside them.

I really do not know anymore.

All I know is that my heart is filled with anger, exhaustion, grief, and sadness. And sometimes it feels as though an entire generation has aged decades within only a few years.

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🗞️ | Khaleel Nasrallah writes:

The Wall Street Journal has reported on two visits by the head of Mossad to the United Arab Emirates, while Haaretz has reported on a visit by the head of Shin Bet since the beginning of the war.

These visits are being framed as part of “security coordination” in confronting Tehran, an arrangement that Jared Kushner had publicly promoted back in 2020, although it was denied by the UAE at the time.

Tehran reportedly views this coordination as a serious and hostile act, which is why it is increasingly focusing on the UAE as a launch point for aggression against Iran.

Saudi Arabia is also said to view this coordination with concern, particularly after experiencing aspects of it in southern Yemen earlier this year.

The growing alignment taking shape in the Gulf region points toward further tension and confrontation, not limited solely to Tehran and Abu Dhabi.

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✅ | According to the Israeli “Kan” channel, an Israeli security delegation headed by the Director General of the Ministry of War visited the UAE during the preparations for the battle against Iran, and it also confirmed that the Israeli intelligence chief visited the UAE twice during the Ramadan war. Now it is becoming increasingly clear that the Israelis are focusing more on the UAE, Bahrain, and also Kuwait as potential hubs for publicly and officially advancing operations against Iran, while reports also claim that Israel has sent defensive systems and protective barriers to secure strategic oil assets.

These developments further intensify speculation surrounding the UAE’s recent measures against sections of the Shia community, with authorities allegedly viewing some individuals as security threats or accusing them of links to Iranian intelligence activities. For many observers, the growing level of open coordination between Gulf states and Israel marks a major shift in the region’s political and security landscape, one that is likely to deepen sectarian tensions and internal instability.

It is a pity for those living in these glass houses while continuing to support policies that may ultimately place their own societies at risk. Many fear that transforming the Gulf into a frontline arena for regional confrontation could have dangerous long-term consequences for stability, coexistence, and economic security across the region. We warn against the Ukrainization of the UAE and the wider Gulf.

The course of the war depends upon the coming hours and days, where Trump’s entry and China will play major roles, and the weekend may become the turning point for the restart of the war. What is being discussed is the possibility of massive blows to the UAE that many fear could fracture it severely.

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🇮🇷 | However, the current dates and further details have not yet been officially announced. Yesterday, it was confirmed that around one million Iraqi participants have already registered to attend the funeral.

The funeral procession of the martyred Imam is expected to become the largest funeral gathering ever recorded in history. Estimates suggest the numbers may exceed ten million participants, possibly even more. Reports also indicate that nearly one million foreign pilgrims and mourners may attend the funeral.

There are increasing demands for separate funeral processions across the holy cities of Iraq. Some Pakistani clerics have also requested that he be buried at the place of his martyrdom. However, the majority indication currently confirms that the Imam will be buried in a corner of the holy shrine of Imam Ali al Ridha (A), near the graves of his parents.

It is also being discussed that no visible tombstone may be placed over the grave, and that the burial site may remain part of the common pathway within the shrine area where pilgrims usually walk. However, there are still no fully confirmed reports regarding these details, other than scattered pieces of information circulating from different sources.

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