🇫🇷🇮🇱⚡️- France has issued a travel advisory against Israel.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken: "The Middle East is heading towards escalation"

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian channels report the deployment of S-300 air defense systems to western Iran

— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 BREAKING: Iranian media write that Iran's response will inaugurate 'a new phase of the war', in which 'previous equations no longer count'

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The IDF has called all soldiers on leave back to their post in anticipation for a response from Hezbollah and Iran

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Mayor of Haifa: "We received estimates from the Home Front Command and the Israeli army that residents could remain in shelters for 4 consecutive days"

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- Russia has released Evan Gershkovich to the United States in a prisoner swap.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah military chant ahead of the funeral for Fuad Shakr, who was killed in Beirut a few days ago.

Hezbollah General-Secretary Hassan Nasrallah is set to make a pre-recorded speech at his funeral in 2 hours.

🇩🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Germany's largest airline Lufthansa has suspended all flights to Israel until August 8th.

🇺🇸🇷🇺 - Russia has also released former US Marine Paul Whelan in this prisoner swap.

🇬🇧🇨🇾⚡️- The British overseas military bases of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus have been placed on high alert.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- An American P-3 Orion intelligence aircraft carried out extensive sortie operations along the Levantine coast.

🇸🇩⚡- Sudanese state media is claiming they have captured Al-Khartoum International Airport (Khartoum direction) - the claim is incorrect.

Recent geolocated footage published by Rapid Support Forces, RSF, show the airport still under RSF control.

Sudanese Armed Forces have made progress in the south though, capturing the Medical Science University, and therefore can now launch an attack on the airport itself from the south.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The city of Safed in northern Israel, a very important historical and cultural city in the region, has begun distributing generators to the public.

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Al-Mayadeen reports that David Ben-Gurion International Airport is warning all travelers to prepare for possible cancellations or delays of flights

🇦🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Israel Channel 12 reports that FlyDubai has cancelled multiple scheduled flights to Tel Aviv this week

#BREAKING Russia has carried out the largest prisoner swap involving the U.S., Germany, and three other Western countries since the Cold War with Turkish National Intelligence Agency (MIT) facilitation.

— According to the agreement, a total of 24 people were released.

— 8 Russian citizens suspected of links to Russian intelligence were extradited to Russia.

— The White House, State Department and CIA participated in negotiations between Russia and European countries.

American Prisoners to be Released:

— Evan Gershkovich: Wall Street Journal reporter arrested in March 2023, charged with espionage.
— Paul Whelan: Marine veteran arrested in December 2018, sentenced to 16 years for espionage charges.
— Alsu Kurmasheva: Russian-American radio journalist detained in June 2023 for allegedly spreading false information about the Russian army.

Other Prisoners Involved:

— At least 12 political prisoners held in Russia are expected to be released to Germany.
— Eight Russian nationals are to be returned to Russia, including some with suspected ties to Russian intelligence.
— Vadim Krasikov, a convicted murderer serving a life sentence in Germany, is expected to be part of the swap.
— Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Kremlin critic and Washington Post contributor, is expected to be flown to the U.S.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Veseloe (Pokrovsk direction) – Ukrainian sources have now confirmed, the Russian side claimed control a few hours ago.

Only 2,100 meters remain to Grodovka, the last large town before the vital city of Mirnograd.

Also with the current advance, Russia's 2024 summer counter-offensive has now captured exactly five times as much territory as Ukraine's 2023 summer counter-offensive.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hassan Nasrallah has begun speaking.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Nasrallah: "I extend my condolences and congratulations to our brothers in the Hamas movement and the Al-Qassam Brigades on the martyrdom of Brother Ismail Haniyeh."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces captured Gorlivska Street, New York (Toretsk direction).

In the east, Russian troops advanced 1,400 metres, capturing an important Ukrainian fortification along the way.

The gap between the two fronts, central New York and east New York, is less than 2,000 meters. Ukrainian forces have a single operational road out for evacuations, the risk of encirclement is very high.