🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: "The decision has been made, we are going to occupy the Gaza Strip immediately," - Israeli Channel 12.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: "It's over. We are going for a full conquest of the Gaza Strip," - Israeli Channel 14.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu held a limited security cabinet meeting over the hostage-ceasefire deal. The cabinet have decided to begin annexing the Gaza Strip until Hamas releases the remaining Israeli hostages.

Netanyahu has told Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, who opposes the annexation plan, "if the Chief of Staff refuses to put on the uniform, he should go home."

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Trump Administration will deny disaster relief funds to cities and states that boycott Israeli companies. This is the most aggressive targeting of the BDS movement by the US so far. Most states already have anti-BDS laws.

🇱🇧⚡- Saudi outlet al-Hadath says Hezbollah are planning protests ahead of tomorrow's Lebanese cabinet meeting on the disarming of Hezbollah entirely.

🇰🇷🇮🇳⚡- India may purchase South Korea's domestically developed KF-21 fighter jets.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- "The new Syrian government is an ally of ours in the Middle East," - Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir is threatening to resign if the security cabinet go ahead with the Gaza annexation plan.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Hillel Biton Rosen, of Israeli Channel 14, says the decision to annex Gaza entirely has not yet been made. Rosen says the majority of the cabinet approved the plan. The decision will be made tomorrow, in a follow-up security cabinet meeting at the Kirya.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Netanyahu's Press Office has announced a security cabinet meeting for tomorrow, confirming Hillel Biton Rosen's report.

No decision on the Gaza annexation plan has been made yet - it will be made tomorrow.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "It is not unlikely that this could be part of a negotiating tactic to pressure Hamas," - Yediot Ahronot.

🇮🇱 - Meanwhile Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has posted a two minute video on anti-Semitism on social media just now.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Trump gave green light to Israel for strong military action in Gaza," - Yedioth Ahronoth.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "On the eleventh day of the war, a large Israeli city was completely destroyed under the deadly fire of our missiles and drones, and all the Zionists living there were eliminated.

Israel has heavily censored the name of this city to prevent its disclosure, and we also do not announce its name so that the enemy cannot deny the news," - Mohsen Rezaee, senior member of the IRGC and member of Iran's Expediency Discernment Council.

🇹🇭🇰🇭⚡- Thailand has begun erecting barriers on territory it captured from Cambodia during the Thai-Cambodian border conflict late last month.

A move seen by Cambodia as an attempt to annex the territories.

🇷🇺🇮🇱⚡- Russian President Putin held a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu earlier today. A second in 7 days.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has canceled a working visit to the United States over his opposition to the proposed Gaza annexation plan.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇳⚡- "India is not only buying massive amounts of Russian Oil, they are then, for much of the Oil purchased, selling it on the Open Market for big profits. They don’t care how many people in Ukraine are being killed by the Russian War Machine.

Because of this, I will be substantially raising the Tariff paid by India to the USA. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!! President DJT," - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇳⚡- "India has been targeted by the United States and the European Union for importing oil from Russia after the commencement of the Ukraine conflict. In fact, India began importing from Russia because traditional supplies were diverted to Europe after the outbreak of the conflict. The United States at that time actively encouraged such imports by India for strengthening global energy markets stability.

India's imports are meant to ensure predictable and affordable energy costs to the Indian consumer. However, it is revealing that the very nations criticizing India are themselves indulging in trade with Russia. Unlike our case, such trade is not even a vital national compulsion.

The European Union in 2024 had a bilateral trade of Euro 67.5 billion in goods with Russia. In addition, it had trade in services estimated at Euro 17.2 billion in 2023. This is significantly more than India's total trade with Russia that year or subsequently. European imports of LNG in 2024, in fact, reached a record 16.5mn tonnes, Surpassing the last record of 15.21mn tonnes in 2022.

Where the United States is concerned, it continues to import from Russia uranium-hexafluoride for its nuclear industry, palladium for its EV industry, fertilizers as well as chemicals.

In this background, the targeting of India is unjustified and unreasonable. Like any major economy, India will take all necessary measures to safeguard its national interests and economic security," - India's Ministry of External Affairs.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- "We are concerned about the resurgence of violence in As Sweida and Manbij," - Tom Barrack, US Envoy to Syria.

🇷🇺⚡- Russia will close the airspace over northern Astrakhan region from August 4th - 8th.

The Kapustin Yar Missile Base is located in northern Astrakhan, the home of the Oreshnik missile.