🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- IDF reports that IDF Chief of Staff Haveli is holding an assessment meeting and is "approving plans for Lebanon."

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Reuters reports, citing Israeli sources, that Hezbollah is on "high alert" in anticipation of an Israeli attack, and has evacuated multiple areas of southern and eastern Lebanon of civilians.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Israeli Defense Minister Gallant and IDF Chief of Staff Haveli have "approved operational plans on the Lebanon front," according to Al-Arabiya

🇨🇦🇱🇧⚡️- Canada has called on its citizens to immediately leave Lebanon

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Hezbollah affiliated media claim heavy strikes across southern Lebanon, even north of the Litani river.

🇫🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- France has called on its citizens to immediately leave Israel and Lebanon, as well as avoiding travel to both nations

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The Israeli enemy must be well aware that any error in judgment will be met with reaction ... and anger will be unleashed on the entire entity..." – Hezbollah affiliated media.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "There will be no place for careful calculations. There will be no ceilings and no limits ... from Kiryat to Eilat, all is open." – Hezbollah affiliated media.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Netanyahu will meet with the Israeli War Cabinet at 4PM Israel Time (9AM EST) and will be presented the strike plans against Lebanon for approval.

🇺🇲🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- The US has created new 'Military Command' in Japan, to counter China.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli Defense Minister Gallant: "Hezbollah fired the bullet and will bear the price and will pay dearly for its actions."

🇺🇲🇷🇺⚡- USA And Japan condemn Russia's military cooperation With China and North Korea.

🇺🇲🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- "We reject China's unlawful maritime claims, militarization of reclaimed features, and threatening and provocative activities in the South China Sea." – Joint US-Japan statement.

🇺🇲🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- "China's destabilizing actions in this region include unsafe encounters at sea and in the air, efforts to disrupt other countries’ offshore resources exploitation, as well as the dangerous use of its Coast Guard and maritime militia vessels." – Joint US-Japan statement.

🇺🇲🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- "We express concern over the ongoing and rapid expansion of China's nuclear weapons arsenal, which continues without any transparency regarding its intent and which they refuse to acknowledge, despite publicly available evidence." – Joint US-Japan statement.

🇲🇾⚡- Malaysia has applied to join BRICS.

🇸🇪🇱🇧⚡️- Sweden has called on its citizens to leave Lebanon immediately