🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media: "We expect a storm tonight"

🇺🇸⚡️- Lou Dobbs, a conservative commentator and former Fox News host, has passed away at the age of 78.

🇧🇫⚡- "Africans must prepare for a war of high intensity. We must be prepared to welcome the aggressor and fight for the long haul. Whether they come in the form of Western armies or in the form of Benin, Ivory Coast or ECOWAS, we must be prepared." – Captain Ibrahim Traore, President of Burkina Faso.

🇸🇩🇪🇹⚡- The risk of war spilling into Ethiopia is higher than ever. Large troop movements are observed on either side of the Sudan-Ethiopia border. Coupled with Rapid Support Forces advance in the Sennar region and even a possible alliance with the Fano in Ethiopia seems likely – Institute of War.

⚡️🇱🇧 Israeli airstrike in Southern Lebanon kills 5, one of the dead may include a field commander of the Radwan Unit.

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🇫🇷🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- "Azerbaijan was responsible for starting the terrible war in 2020. Over the past few decades, it is Azerbaijan who has armed itself much more than Armenia." – French President, Emmanuel Macron.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Hezbollah confirms the death of Jaafar Maatouk, also known as Habib Maatouk, the senior commander of the Radwan Unit.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Massive barrage of rockets from Lebanon, towards northern Israel. Sirens were not activated.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Scenes from the Israeli strike on Hezbollah, which has killed 4 and injured 18 others.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Various settlements in Galilee and northern Israel are asking its citizens to "remain on alert" for the possibility of intense, heavy Hezbollah rocket barrages tonight after the assassination of Hezbollah commander Habib Maatouk.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli left-wing politicians and 'activists' discuss shooting down Benjamin Netanyahu's plane, killing him, and then storing weapons to prepare to fight the rest of the right-wing government – published by Israeli 'Channel 14', pro-Likud media.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media reports that the assessment in the military and security establishment is that Hezbollah will launch a massive retaliatory barrage against northern Israel within the next few hours

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Fierce clashes in Rafah.

🇺🇸⚡️- New York Times is reporting, citing an unnamed close ally of Biden, that he might be preparing to leave the 2024 race.

🇺🇸⚡️- Sources are alleging that Biden may suspend his re-election bid as soon as Sunday.

🇺🇸⚡️- Mark Halperin, a conservative commentator, says that Biden has agreed to drop out of the 2024 presidential election, and will announce as such this weekend.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah military media published a video today titled "From Kiryat Shmona to Eilat."