🇮🇹🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Italy calls on its citizens to leave Lebanon immediately.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "It is impossible to predict what Israel will do. The warnings issued by the embassies of several countries to their citizens to leave Lebanon are natural in the shadow of the Israeli threats. Lebanon does not want war and is committed to the international decisions and the one behind all the violations is the Israeli enemy." – Source close to the Lebanese Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, arrived at the scene of Majdal Shams.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Associated Press reports that Hezbollah is moving precision-guided missiles into strategic positions to use in a retaliatory strike against Israel

🇺🇦⚡- The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense supported the bill 'On the Creation of Private Military Companies' in Ukraine. The bill has been submitted to go through the Ukrainian Rada.

🇬🇧🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- The British Royal Navy is repositioning evacuation assets closer towards the western Mediterranean and Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Fears that the matter with Hezbollah may get out of control are very high amongst Senior Israeli Officials – The Washington Post.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Senior Israeli Officials face a dilemma in responding to the Majdal Shams attack, leaving Hezbollah no choice but to escalate – The Washington Post.

🇬🇧⚡- Britain has issued an international arrest warrant for Tommy Robinson for fleeing the UK after being bailed, under extremist charges.

🇮🇷🇫🇷⚡- "We are ready to continue nuclear negotiations and hope to implement the commitments in the nuclear agreements and in turn lift the sanctions." – Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian, in a phone call with French President, Emmanuel Macron.

🇺🇲🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Israel has every right to respond after the Hezbollah attack," – John Kirby, US National Security Advisor.

🇺🇲🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Control of the Golan is still important for Israel's security, and American policy on the Golan has not changed." – John Kirby, US National Security Advisor.

🇺🇲🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "We do not ask Israel to tolerate any threat and leave it to them to talk about the nature of its response." – John Kirby, US National Security Advisor.

🇺🇲🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The Golan Heights is part of and belongs to Israel," – John Kirby, US National Security Advisor.

🇲🇱🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- The photo above is being circulated apparently showing the Timur unit of Ukraine's Kraken-GUR in Mali alongside Azawad forces. This is incorrect.

Both Ukrainians and Azawads are feeding the lie. The soldiers that look 'Ukrainian / White' are Tuareg, most likely Algerian, or exiled-Libyan descent. Lighter skin tones amongst Tuaregs are not uncommon.

Multiple Wagner sources deny Ukrainian involvement on the ground, some have even denied Ukrainian intelligence involvement. The Azawad forces and Azawad media has also denied Ukrainian involvement. The French org. 'Little', an intelligence source / think tank that has been operating in the Sahel for over a decade, denies Ukrainian involvement too.

The photo being circulated originates from 'KyivPost', who had previously faked Timur's presence in Syria.

Notably, the photo is a still image from several videos that were recorded prior to the 10th of July, and then shared on multiple platforms on Azawad pages. The photo therefore is over two / three weeks old. 'KyivPost' made the claim that the photo was taken at the scene, which is therefore untrue. For comparison, the current Wagner offensive in the north began on 20th of July.

There also exist numerous close-up shots of light-skin Tuareg individuals at the recent battle scene, who would otherwise look 'Ukrainian' from afar.

🇺🇸⚡️- The gender divide in US politics worsens as young men now favor Trump and the GOP compared to 4 years ago while young women remain reliably Democrat.

🇻🇪⚡- Violent protests across Venezuela.

🇻🇪🇵🇦⚡- Panama recalls its ambassador to Venezuela, suspending all diplomatic relations.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Israel has called on NATO to expel Turkey from the alliance after Turkish President Erdogan's threats against Israel.

🇺🇸⚡️- Kamala Harris's VP shortlist has been reduced to Arizona Senator Mark Kelley, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Democratic Senators are calling for the United States to officially recognize Edmundo Gonzalez as the president-elect of Venezuela.