🇺🇸🇮🇱 - 14 aerial refuelers currently at Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- “The idea that we're going to be at war in the Middle East for years with no end in sight, there's no way that's going to happen.” - Channel 12 citing U.S. Vice-President J.D. Vance.

🏳️🇵🇰 - Sporadic clashes along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border continued this morning, but with far lesser intensity.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING : The U.S. Department of State has issued the following security alert:

"On February 27, 2026, the Department of State authorized the departure of non-emergency U.S. government personnel and family members of U.S. government personnel from Mission Israel due to safety risks.

In response to security incidents and without advance notice, the U.S. Embassy may further restrict or prohibit U.S. government employees and their family members from traveling to certain areas of Israel, the Old City of Jerusalem, and the West Bank. Persons may wish to consider leaving Israel while commercial flights are available." - U.S. Embassy of Jerusalem on X.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Mike Huckabee, U.S. Ambassador to Israel to embassy staff: "Anyone who wants to leave should do so today."

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Mike Huckabee's mail to embassy staff includes the following statement: "Focus on getting a seat to anyplace from which you can then continue travel to [Washington] DC, but the first priority will be getting expeditiously out of country.”

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Three Pakistani airstrikes on Afghanistan today, against Laghman, Khost, and Paktia.

🇨🇳🇮🇷⚡- China has called on its citizens to leave Iran immediately.

🇪🇺⚡️- Ursula von Der Leyen announced she will provisionally apply the Mercosur deal despite the EU Parliament's vote to seize the justice to examinate the deal.

🇪🇺🇩🇪🇺🇸⚡️- Friedrich Merz will travel to the U.S. on Tuesday to bring Europe's proposition for a U.S.-EU trade agreement.

🇺🇸🇴🇲🇮🇷⚡- Oman's Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad is scheduled to meet Vice President JD Vance and other senior officials today in Washington regarding the US-Iran talks.

🇮🇱⚡️- Hebrew Live reports that Beersheba, Tel Aviv and Raanana have begun opening public shelters.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Channel 14, which normally shuts for Shabbat, will remain 'quiet' services this weekend.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡️- Reports of evacuations of non-essential personnel from the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡- BREAKING: American personnel in Baghdad, Iraq, are being evacuated through Baghdad International Airport, al-Hadath reports.

🇨🇳🇮🇱⚡- After issuing a travel advisory warning for its citizens in Iran, China has now urged its nationals to avoid travel to Israel, and for those there to remain cautious and vigilant, and follow local safety warnings.

🇮🇱⚡️- The mayor of Petah Tikva, a city east of Tel'Aviv, has called on his city council to "be prepared to all scenarios".

🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli army spokesman: “I stress once again, there is no change in the instructions, and if there is a change, I will be here and we will announce it accordingly.”

🇮🇷⚡️- The IAEA has released a statement regarding Iran's enrichment status.

- Inspectors have not been granted access to Iran’s declared enrichment facility at Isfahan since Tehran first disclosed it in June.
- Iran is storing uranium enriched up to 20% and 60% at the Isfahan tunnel complex. Satellite imagery shows regular vehicle activity near the entrances. The agency says it cannot confirm the exact status of the declared Isfahan enrichment facility, including whether it is operational or contains nuclear material.
- The agency says it has not had access to any of Iran’s four declared uranium enrichment facilities.

🇿🇦🇪🇬⚡️- BREAKING : According to Reuters, the international shipping company Maersk is rerouting certain upcoming ships from the Suez Canal towards the Cape of Good Hope, citing security risks, rising tensions and operational constraints in the Red Sea.