🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Repeated Israeli airstrikes against southern Gaza. Rafah and Khan Younis were just hammered with dozens of strikes.

🇺🇸🇨🇴⚡️- "On October 17th, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), a Designated Terrorist Organization, that was operating in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility.

These cartels are the Al Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere, using violence, murder and terrorism to impose their will, threaten our national security and poison our people. The United States military will treat these organizations like the terrorists they are—they will be hunted, and killed, just like Al Qaeda."
- U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Prime Minister Netanyahu has ordered the immediate closure of all humanitarian entries into Gaza as hostilities break out once again.

The ceasefire has effectively ended.

🇺🇸🇨🇴⚡- "I respect the history, culture, and people of the United States. They are not my enemies, nor do I consider them that way.

The problem is with Trump, not with the United States.

Trump simply doesn't understand how millions of young Americans could go and fight for what seemed like an alien cause: the war in Europe.

Many fought and died there; those young people knew why they were fighting.

They were fighting for humanity. Trump doesn't understand the concept of humanity," - Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia.

🇺🇸🇨🇴⚡- "Mr. Trump, Colombia has never been rude to the US; on the contrary, it has deeply loved its culture.

But you are rude and ignorant toward Colombia. I don't do business like you do. I am a socialist. I believe in aid and the common good, and in the common goods of humanity, the greatest of all: life, endangered by its oil.

I'm not a businessman, much less a drug trafficker, there is no greed in my heart. I could never relate to greed. A mobster is a human being who embodies the best of capitalism: greed. I am the opposite: a lover of life and therefore a millennial warrior of life. Greed eludes us, because life is more powerful," - Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "China accused the US of conducting cyber attacks on Beijing's national time centre that could have caused severe damage to critical financial and telecommunications infrastructure," - Channel News Asia.

🇨🇳⚡- China's most important meeting of the decade, the fourth plenum of the Central Committee, to begin tomorrow. The meeting, chaired by President Xi Jinping, will last four days, and with all sessions held behind closed-doors.

The objective of the meeting, which is held every five years, is to map out the goals for Beijing for the next five years. The topic of Taiwan will be one of the key discussions.

🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan begins installing anti-drone nettings on all routes leading to Chiayi Air Base, southwest Taiwan.

Image shows anti-drone nettings covering a Ukrainian supply road leading to Konstantinovka, Ukrainian-controlled Donetsk region.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- "Putin failed to reach an agreement with the Syrian leader on a key issue – Russia's bases of Latakia and Tartus.

No agreements were reached on the future fate of the two Russian military bases in Tartus and Hmeimim. The agreements concluded previously with Assad are currently suspended under al-Sharaa," - The Moscow Times.

🇩🇪⚡- Munich International Airport was shut twice last night after reports of drone sightings.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Drop Site News claims that the explosion in Rafah, which was used as justification for extensive bombing of Gaza, was actually caused by the vehicle running over unexploded ordnance and not an attack.

Netanyahu allegedly only announced they would reopen aid crossings after the U.S. informed them they knew what caused the explosion.

🇪🇺🇷🇺🇱🇾⚡- The Telegraph, citing EU tracking data, reports a record number of Belavia Belarusian Airlines to airports in western Russia and Belarus from eastern Libya over the past few weeks, raising fears of another major migrant crisis in Europe.

Putin has in the past orchestrated migrant crisis along European borders in coordination with eastern Libya's Khalifa Haftar – such as that of summer 2021, when tens of thousands of Africans marched into Poland, the Baltics and Finland from Russia and Belarus.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have departed for Israel.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- Secretary of State Marco Rubio to meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Thursday.

🇨🇾⚡- Left-wing candidate Tufan Erhurman wins the Presidential elections of Northern Cyprus.

Erhurman ran on an anti-Turkey platform, and hopes to reignite the stalled UN-brokered unification talks with Southern Cyprus. Erhurman also hopes to join the EU.

🇪🇸⚡- Drone sightings reported over the Spanish island's Mallorca International Airport. Airport operations have temporarily been suspended.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ - "Trump thinks he destroyed Iran's nuclear industry. Very well, let him continue to live in this delusion." - Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "I have instructed the IDF to convey a clear message to the Hamas leadership in Gaza through the American monitoring mechanism: any Hamas terrorist found beyond the yellow line in Israeli-controlled territory must evacuate immediately. Anyone who remains in the area will be targeted without further warning, and the Hamas leadership will bear responsibility for any incident. This directive was issued to enable IDF forces to act freely and immediately in response to any threat.

The protection of IDF soldiers is our top priority, and we will take all necessary measures to ensure this."
- Israel Minister of Defencr Katz.