🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "China's joint exercises are a serious warning and powerful deterrence to the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces, and are a legitimate and necessary action to defend national sovereignty and maintain national unity," - Guo Jiakun, China's Foreign Ministry Spokesman.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "The Taiwan issue is purely China's internal affairs and does not tolerate any external interference," - Guo Jiakun, China's Foreign Ministry Spokesman.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "The historical trend that China will eventually reunify and will certainly reunify is unstoppable," - Guo Jiakun, China's Foreign Ministry Spokesman.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇯🇵⚡- "I would like to reiterate that the US-Japan military and security cooperation must not target third countries and must not endanger regional peace and development," - Guo Jiakun, China's Foreign Ministry Spokesman.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- "The US has used the so-called 'China threat' as an excuse to stir up ideological confrontation and instigate division and confrontation," - Guo Jiakun, China's Foreign Ministry Spokesman.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "We advise some US individuals to abandon the fantasy of using Taiwan to contain China," - Guo Jiakun, China's Foreign Ministry Spokesman.

🇮🇱⚡- Naftali Bennett, who's leading the polls, returns to Israeli politics after retiring two years ago. He announced the formation of a new party called 'Bennett 2026'.

🇺🇸🇱🇹⚡- The fourth and final US soldier that had gone missing in Lithuania has now been found dead as well.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Ballistic missile launches from Yemen by Ansarullah.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "Israel would like to see as few Hayat Tahrir al-Sham elements in the Government, but now we are seeing much less of HTS.

Syria's new government is trying to establish back channel communications with Israel. Syria's goal is that of normalization with Israel, which is more likely to happen than normalization between Israel and Lebanon," - Ariel Oseran, Israeli correspondent for i24 News.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡️- Launches are against the Red Sea, likely the US carrier strike group, not towards Israel.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "President Trump is frustrated with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine and wants the war to end," - The White House.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "President Trump is committed to supporting Israel, and thanks to him, we were able to achieve a temporary ceasefire in Gaza," - The White House.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The President made it clear to Hamas that it must release the hostages or face hell," - The White House.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "Iran will take all necessary measures to protect its nuclear program in light of the ongoing threats." - Abbas Araqchi, Iranian Foreign Minister.

🇮🇱⚡- "There is nothing more ironic than Naftali Bennett registering a new party on April Fool's Day," - Hallel Biton Rosen, Israeli journalist for Channel 14, pro-Likud media.

🇺🇸🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Ansarullah ballistic was intercepted by the US Navy over Saudi airspace.