🇺🇸 — WATCH: U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent clarifies that President Trump's promise of 'at least $2,000 tariff dividends' can come in 'lots of forms,' such as tax cuts.

🇮🇱 — NEW: Hebrew media reports that this morning, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, former Chief Lawyer of the IDF, was 'rushed to the hospital' after her release from house arrest. This incident is being suspected as her second failed suicide attempt.

🇮🇱 — NEW: The Jerusalem Post reports that according to a new peer-reviewed study published in the 'Archives of Sexual Behavior' medical journal (under Springer), 33% of Israeli men pay for sex

As noted before, sexual deviations are extremely common in Israeli society.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 — NEW: Israel carries out two major controlled demolitions of civilian buildings in the eastern neighborhood of Hula town, southern Lebanon.

❗️🇮🇱🇮🇷 — NEW: Iran’s missile plants now run 24/7, aiming to launch 2,000 missiles at once to overwhelm Israeli defenses.

Reports say Iran has rapidly rearmed, funded proxies with oil profits, and fortified ‘Pickaxe Mountain’ near Natanz while barring IAEA inspectors — raising fears of renewed nuclear activity and giving Israel a pretext for preemptive strikes.

❗️🇱🇧🇮🇱 — NEW: Israeli drone strike targets car in southern Lebanon.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 — NEW: During a live broadcast on Iranian state television, a guest declared that ‘according to Islamic tradition, the State of Israel will be erased from the world stage by 2028.’

🇱🇧🇮🇱 — NEW: Israel deploys tanks and reinforcements to its northern border with Lebanon, with movements reported in both northern Israel and southern Lebanon.

❗️🇱🇧🇮🇱 — WATCH: The IDF begins construction of a wall near its base in Jal al-Dier in southern Lebanon, behind which lies an existing barrier and extensive prior defensive engineering works inside Israeli territory.

🇸🇾🇺🇸 — NEW: Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa and Foreign Minister Asad Al-Shaibani met with Brian Mast, the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives

Brian Mast is one of the staunchest supporters of Israel in the U.S. Congress, calling Israel the 'greatest nation on earth', celebrating the killing of Yahya Sinwar whom he called a 'filthy dog', and recognizing Israel's occupation of the West Bank, referring to it as 'Judea and Samaria'.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 — Netanyahu: ‘Gaza will be demilitarized and Hamas will be disarmed — it will happen either the easy way or the hard way.’

🇫🇷 — NEW: Former french President Nicolas Sarkozy released from the Paris prison where he spent over 20 days because he didn’t feel comfortable — House arrest is probably his next fate.

🇺🇸🇸🇾🏴 — NEW: A Pentagon official told Al Jazeera that Syria will join the international coalition against ISIS.