🇺🇦⚡- "For me, freezing the conflict is worse than defeat. Defeat can be accepted with honor when you have done your best. Was it scary for two 16-year-old boys from Berdyansk to give their lives for the freedom of Ukraine?" – Bogdan Krotevich, Chief of Staff of the Ukrainian 12th Brigade, 'Azov'.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- An Israeli fighter jet was heard above Beirut, breaking the sound barrier.

🇨🇳🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Senior official of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Ihsan Ataya, commenting on the Chinese-brokered reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas: "There is a necessity for the Palestinian political leadership to form an emergency committee, especially at this stage."

🇨🇳🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Ihsan Ataya: "Some points that carry implicit and explicit recognition have been amended by naming UN resolutions that include recognition of Israel."

🇨🇳🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Ihsan Ataya: "The guarantee for implementing the provisions of the “Beijing Declaration” is in the hands of the Palestinians themselves."

🇨🇳🇵🇸⚡️- BREAKING: China's Foreign Minister has announced that all Palestinian factions involved in the Beijing-brokered negotiations have agreed to form a "reconciliation government," a massive step in ending the schism between Fatah and Hamas.

🇮🇱⚡️- A cyberattack is being reported by Israeli media against the Israeli Ministry of Security.

🇺🇸🇦🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Axios: "The United States, Israel, and the UAE held a secret meeting regarding the 'day after' plan for the Gaza war."

🇸🇩⚡- Rapid Support Forces, RSF, have captured Al-Dibab, in the Heglig direction, south Sudan.

After a pause in fighting due to the storms over the country, RSF resumed offensive operations in the south.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in northern Israel (Dalton and Kiryat Shmona sector.)

Drone infiltration was reported in the settlements of Jish and Kadita, while rockets were detected towards Kiryat Shmona.

🇺🇲🦁⚡- Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle resigns after attempted assassination of President Trump.

🇮🇷⚡- Pro-Iranian militias are holding unusually large military exercises at the Syrian-Iraq border. Senior IRGC are on hand to provide training. The exercises are the largest that have ever taken place and they will last several days – Avigdor Lieberman, former Israeli Deputy Prime Minister.

🇾🇪⚡- Ukrainian crew members on a container ship destroyed an unmanned Houthi vessel with small arms.

🇬🇪🇺🇦⚡- Georgia has placed 300 members fighting for Ukraine as part of the far-right Georgian Legion group on its Wanted List.

🇪🇹⚡- Death toll rises to 229 from two landslides that hit Gofa, Ethiopia.

🇸🇴🏴⚡- The al-Shabaab group launched a massive attack on Somalian Forces, FSG, in Kamboni (Kismayo direction).

The al-Shabaab attacks were directed towards Kismayo's military base & airport and towards the town of Buulo Xaaji. Somalian media claim FSG repulsed the attacks, leaving scores of dead al-Shabaab militants.

Kamboni is one of the two remaining border points with Kenya that the FSG still has under their control.

— 🇮🇷 NEW: President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian will be inaugurated as President of the Islamic Republic of Iran on July 30th at 16:00 Tehran time in the Parliament

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🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Protesters have entered the US Capitol building ahead of Netanyahu's planned speech tomorrow to protest against the war in Gaza and to demand an end of aid to Israel.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mike Johnson: 'Anyone who disrupts Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech in Congress will be arrested; Israel is the United States' greatest ally'

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇹🇼⚡- Scenes from Taipei, Taiwan, as sirens go off across the Island as part of Taiwan's military drills designed to prepare against a possible invasion. The exercises are to last a few days.