🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "We need to start hitting Lebanon hard and tear it apart. There needs to be a full strategic plan implemented that will destroy Hezbollah." – Benny Gantz, Israeli Opposition Leader.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Erdogan is following in the footsteps of Saddam Hussein and is threatening to attack Israel. Just let him remember what happened in Iraq and how it ended there." – Israel Katz, Israeli Foreign Minister.

🇫🇮⚡- "We have to get used to the fact that war is coming, but we are in control of the situation and can react." – President of Finland, Alexander Stubb.

🇵🇱🇭🇺⚡- "I don't understand why Hungary wants to remain a member of the NATO organization that it dislikes so much. This is certainly an anti-European, anti-Ukrainian, anti-Polish policy of Hungary." Teofil Bartoszewski, Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland, tells Orban to leave NATO if he dislikes it.

🇺🇲🇺🇦⚡- "We contacted Trump's team. Donald Trump told me that he is available for any questions, and that I have his phone number." – Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- The cabinet statement hints that the response to Hezbollah may not be immediate – Al Hadath, Saudi state owned media, politically very anti-Iranian.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli right-wing media falsely reporting GPS signal jamming and widespread internet malfunctions in Lebanon. These reports are not true.

🇺🇲🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- US warned Israel against targeting Hezbollah in Beirut – Axios.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli fighter jets struck a house in southern Lebanon. Casualties unknown.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli artillery fire is being reported too, towards southern Lebanon.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces advanced 400 meters south in Chasov-Yar and have entered the Noviy district (Bakhmut direction) – Ukrainian source associated with Azov has confirmed.

Russian forces control the entire east-line of October district and have entered northern Noviy district.

Ukrainian forces still control the canal and the southern fortifications. Ukraine also controls the high-ground crossing points on the canal, as it was confirmed Russia crossed through pipes underground.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Erdogan is raving and raving, he poses a danger to the Middle East. NATO must condemn Erdogan's threats to Israel and force him to end his support for Hamas." – Yair Lapid, Leader of the Israeli Opposition.

🇩🇰🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Denmark calls on its citizens to leave Lebanon.

🇳🇱🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Islamofacist Erdogan threatens to invade Israel. This guy is totally nuts. Turkey should be kicked out of NATO." – Geert Wilders, Party for Freedom Leader in Netherlands.

🇻🇪⚡️- Reporters on the ground during todays Venezuelan election conducting exit polling predict the Maduro regime being defeated in a landslide by the opposition with over 60% of the vote.

However the regime, supported by the military, is expected to announce "official" results later tonight showing a Maduro victory. Protests and rioting are expected in the coming days.

🇻🇪⚡️- Aftermath footage of an alleged shooting committed by Chavista groups (pro Maduro forces) against Venezuelan citizens in Táchira.

Machado:

"We are willing to defend the happiness of the citizens that was expressed today in the street. Popular sovereignty is the most sacred thing that a country has, we will not allow this to be violated. The eyes of the world are on Venezuela at this moment.

🇻🇪⚡️- Official Venezuelan election results show Maduro winning re election with 51% of the vote

🇻🇪⚡️- Maduro: "I am a man of peace and dialogue."

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- 2 dead and 3 injured, including a child, during this morning's Israeli strike on a car in southern Lebanon – Lebanese authorities.