🇮🇱⚡- Ashdod is being prepared to serve as an alternative to northern ports – Israeli Channel 12.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: "We will talk with Hezbollah with iron and fire."

🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian authorities arrest 19 year old former Russian citizen in Dnepr City for assassinating Irina Fairon.

The individual arrested was a member of the Russian Voluntary Corps, an ethnic Russian, anti-Putin far-right group.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli PM Netanyahu to meet with the War Cabinet in 30 minutes to approve military operations against Hezbollah.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah: "We will consider any extreme Israeli reaction as a declaration of war."

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- We do not intend to start a war with Lebanon, according to a Senior Israeli Official – Israeli Channel 12, a left-wing, anti-Likud media.

🇷🇺🇲🇱⚡- Wagner officials confirm huge reinforcements on the way to Mali, from Russia, Syria and Central African Republic.

🇬🇧🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "We are concerned about the danger of escalation. Hezbollah must stop its attacks on Israel," – British Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: American intelligence sources now report that Israel is set to attack Lebanon in less than 48 hours. Various Western diplomats are working behind the scenes to prevent airstrikes against heavily populated areas, especially Beirut.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hebrew Channel 7 reports that Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir will demand a "proactive and extensive attack in Lebanon" during the War Cabinet meeting in the next few hours.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Middle East Airlines, a Lebanon-based airline company, has delayed all flights to Lebanon until tomorrow morning anticipating an escalation tonight.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have entered October district of Chasov-Yar (Bakhmut direction).

The Russian crossing was confirmed to be just north of Chasov-Yar. Russian troops went south along 00506 highway, entering and capturing the first streets of October district.

The Ukrainian side confirmed the first, northern one, of the two large fortifications on the west bank of the canal have fallen, which is located along the October district.

The Russian 98th airborne unit reportedly used underground pipes to cross.

There are rumours that Russian troops entered the 'New' (Novo) district in the south, which are incorrect. Ukrainians refer to the entire eastern Chasov-Yar as the 'new' district.

🇸🇦🇱🇧⚡️- Saudi Arabia has called on its citizens to immediately leave Lebanon

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- IDF Chief of Staff Haveli: "We are raising our readiness for the next stage of fighting in the north and we will work by all means to return the settlers of the north to their homes."

🇧🇩⚡- The Bangladeshi authorities have restored mobile networks and internet.

Protests still ongoing, with the death toll exceeding 170.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces advanced 400 meters towards Serheevka (Avdiivka direction). Russian troops also entered the first houses of Zhelannoe, in the east.

Russian forces have captured the center of Veseloe, with Ukrainian troops withdrawing to the western outskirts.

And in the south, both sides confirm a fierce battle has begun over the large Ukrainian fortification, east of Zhelannoe.

🇻🇪⚡️- Gunshots have been reported at various polling stations in Venezuela amidst the ongoing presidential election.

🇮🇱⚡- The Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs is funding a multi-million-dollar disinformation campaign spreading hatred of Muslims across the West – Al Jazeera.

🇧🇪🇱🇧⚡️- Belgium has asked its citizens to immediately leave Lebanon