🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Given the continuation of Israeli occupation, the government should have examined confronting the attacks instead of tasking the army with a plan to confine weapons," - Hussein al-Hajj Hassan, Member of the Lebanese Parliament representing Hezbollah.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The government should not respond to external pressures, and national unity is what can confront them," - Hussein al-Hajj Hassan, Member of the Lebanese Parliament representing Hezbollah.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The recent war led to significant results and damages, but the resistance has not and will not end," - Hussein al-Hajj Hassan, Member of the Lebanese Parliament representing Hezbollah.

🇱🇧⚡- "We are currently awaiting the Lebanese army commander's opinion on the matter of preparing an implementation plan for weapons confinement," - Hussein al-Hajj Hassan, Member of the Lebanese Parliament representing Hezbollah.

🇱🇧⚡- BREAKING: Hezbollah MP Hussein al-Hajj says talks are underway to invite Hezbollah to participate in Thursday next week during the Lebanese cabinet session, to determine the group's position.

🇱🇧⚡- "There are consultations to determine our position regarding our participation in the government's next session," - Hussein al-Hajj Hassan, Member of the Lebanese Parliament representing Hezbollah.

🇱🇧⚡- "The government made a decision that entered the country into a tunnel with unknown outcomes," - Hussein al-Hajj Hassan, Member of the Lebanese Parliament representing Hezbollah.

🇱🇧⚡- "The decision is unprecedented in terms of lack of responsibility and has entered the country into an internal crisis without any justification," - Hussein al-Hajj Hassan, Member of the Lebanese Parliament representing Hezbollah.

🇱🇧⚡- "Hezbollah has no desire to escalate tensions in Lebanon," - Hussein al-Hajj Hassan, Member of the Lebanese Parliament representing Hezbollah.

🇮🇷⚡- "The world has witnessed during these days that Iran cannot be defeated," - Abdolrahim Mousavi, Iranian Chief of Staff.

🇸🇩⚡- The Guardian reports that the death toll has exceeded 1,500 from the Rapid Support Forces attack on the Zamzam refugee camp last year - west Sudan

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli drone strike against al-Wazzani, southern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇷⚡- "Any decision on this [disarmament] matter will ultimately rest with Hezbollah itself. We support it from afar, but we do not intervene with its decisions," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister.

Araghchi also says Iran supports Hezbollah's decision to resist disarmament, and that the group has "rebuilt itself" following the war last year.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "America will not be safe from the Iranian nation’s revenge. Even if only one Iranian remains, you Americans will not be safe from the slap of his revenge," - Abdolrahim Mousavi, Iranian Chief of Staff.

In before Tasnim: "It was a gas leak."

🇨🇳🇵🇭🇹🇼⚡- Three China Coast Guard vessels on Thursday morning were seen passing near Batanes, Luzon Strait.

🇨🇳🇵🇭🇹🇼⚡- The unusual activity of the three Chinese vessels in the Luzon Strait: CCG4304, CCG3301 and CCG3304.

🇨🇳🇵🇭🇹🇼⚡- One of the Chinese vessels, CCG3301, has gone dark with its location unknown. The ship, a Shucha-II, dubbed the 'Coastal Beast' is equipped with a 76mm cannon.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- A fourth Chinese Coast Guard vessel, CCG5304, is operating southwest of the disputed Royal Captain Shoal, off the coast of Palawan Island, Philippines.