🇱🇧🇮🇱🇺🇲 Mourners gather over the coffin of a recently deceased Hezbollah member proclaiming death to America and that they're ready to serve Hassan Nasrallah.

🇵🇸🇹🇷 A senior Hamas official said Politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh met with Turkey's foreign minister to discuss the war in the Gaza Strip.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡Turkey has suspended ongoing work on drilling and construction of a gas pipeline in the Mediterranean together with Israel.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡All energy agreements between Turkey and Israel have been suspended.

🇱🇾❗ Libya has decided to expel the ambassadors of Britain, USA, France and Italy from the country because of the position of their governments on the situation in the Middle East

🇱🇧🇮🇱 Hezbollah reported that today another Merkava tank was destroyed on the Lebanese-Israeli border. The crew of the tank was also killed.
As of October 25, Hezbollah, according to its official statements, had already lost 42 people killed and several dozen wounded as a result of IDF shelling. Medium-intensity fighting continues. Apparently this will remain the case until the invasion of Gaza begins.

🏥 🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Aljazeera's October 19th investigation made similar findings as NYT

"Based on a detailed review of all videos, Sanad’s analysts conclude that the flash Israel attributed to a misfire was in fact consistent with Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system intercepting a missile fired from the Gaza Strip and destroying it in mid-air."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/19/what-hit-ahli-hospital-in-gaza

🏥 🇵🇸 🇮🇱 NYT visual investigations - Aric Toler

"...there is at least one Iron Dome launch site in nearly the same location that overlaps from the sight lines we drew from the five videos. This site was still present in satellite imagery this year."

"This projectile may have been launched in reaction to barrages of rockets from Gaza."

🇺🇸🇮🇱 The carrier-based C-2A flight indicates that the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower CSG reached the Azores archipelago earlier today and is expected to reach the Strait of Gibraltar in approximately 36 to 48 hours, depending on its speed.

🇺🇲🇺🇦 The United States will announce today a new package of military aid to Ukraine worth $150 million.

🇺🇳🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) will cease operations in Gaza tonight if Israel does not allow the delivery of fuel to the strip - office of UN Secretary General Guterres

— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 BREAKING: Netanyahu asks Gazans in the north to head South, and confirms ground offensive will happen

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Netanyahu: "We are preparing for a ground entry. The timing of the action was determined by the War Cabinet together with the Chief of Staff.”

🇮🇱🇵🇸❗️Netanyahu said that Israel has “killed thousands of terrorists” and is preparing to enter the Gaza Strip. At the same time, the Israeli prime minister refused to disclose the timing, features and scale of the ground operation.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Another burning Leopard 2A4 in the Zaporozhye direction