🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "The letter that Mr. Trump sent Congress on Friday, obtained by The New York Times, formally acknowledged that he had resumed the active strikes that administration officials had previously said had been suspended.

'At my direction, United States Armed Forces responded, commencing on July 7, 2026, with defensive strikes against targets within Iran including missile launch sites, air defenses, military maritime assets, military support, infrastructure, and command and control capabilities,' he said in the letter. He called the strikes 'limited' and 'measured.'" - The New York Times.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "Yesterday (Tuesday), the IDF struck in the city of Gaza and eliminated the terrorist Osama Naeem Hamdi Shamel, who served as the commander of a cell in the naval arm of the Hamas terrorist organization.

Throughout the war and recently, he has been working to restore and strengthen the naval arm of the Hamas terrorist organization and has been involved in promoting terrorist activities in the maritime area.

IDF forces in the Southern Command are deployed in the area in accordance with the agreement and will continue to operate to eliminate any immediate threats." - Israeli Defence Force.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Majdal Zoun, southern Lebanon, seen from satellite imagery, before and after Israeli occupation.

🇷🇺🇪🇺⚡️- "A Recent show of force by European states detaining stateless shadow fleet vessels appears to be pushing more operators to secure new registrations before entering EU waters.

Lloyd’s List has tracked at least six sanctioned ships previously sailing under fraudulent flag registers or with no flag at all that paused outside EU waters before signalling a change of registration.

EU sanctions officials have welcomed the shift as evidence that a strengthened strategy targeting stateless vessels is working. However, many ships are simply exchanging fraudulent registrations for legal but poorly performing flags with some of the worst safety records." - LLoyds List.

🇺🇸⚡️- "Today, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a sweeping campaign to dismantle the threat posed by the International Criminal Court to U.S. sovereignty. The campaign will feature a whole-of-government response to systematically disable the ICC’s ability to operate, target American servicemen or officials, or otherwise threaten American sovereignty.

The ICC poses an intolerable threat to U.S. sovereignty – it claims the authority to prosecute and even imprison American servicemen and officials operating on behalf of America’s national interest. Americans never signed up for this, and all American presidents since the ICC’s ratification have maintained that the ICC does not have jurisdiction over Americans. The ICC previously opened an investigation into U.S. servicemen and intelligence officers and has since refused to close these cases.

Actions under consideration include:

- Diplomatic calls from the Secretary of State, Deputy Secretary, ambassadors, and other members of senior leadership to foreign nations highlighting the abuses of the ICC and the risks posed to Americans and other nations urging them to withdraw from the ICC.
- Nations that partner with American law enforcement and the U.S. military or that enjoy the benefits of the U.S. security umbrella are called upon to reject the ICC’s purported authority to prosecute American officials and servicemen
- Increased scrutiny of nations that refuse to reject the ICC’s false authority while relying on U.S. assistance
- Diplomatic calls urging other nations that, like America, that are not party to the Rome Statute to leverage their diplomatic networks to take similar actions alongside us
- Visa revocations and travel bans for ICC personnel
- Increased sanctions against the ICC and affiliated organizations" - US State Department

🇻🇪⚡️- The death toll from the earthquakes in Venezuela has been updated to 4,561 killed and 16,740 injured. 190 buildings are reported to have collapsed.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian media report explosions in Bushehr and Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - US airstrikes struck the Sadra Complex, Bushehr Airbase, and the town of Khvormuj in the Bushehr Province.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Scenes from Khalij-e-Fars, Bushehr, southern Iran.

Rerum Novarum have geolocated the media to 28.992729062520958, 50.8332652599914.

🇸🇩⚡️- The court of Port Sudan has sentenced Rapid Support Forces Chief Hamdan 'Hemedti' Dagalo and 15 other senior RSF officers to death.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - SNN and IRIB confirms US attacks on Bandar Abbas, southern Iran, targeting the Radio Communications and Regulatory Organization building.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - No more strikes have been reported, this was a short wave of attacks.

🇮🇳🇮🇷⚡️- India has summoned the Iranian deputy Ambassador, following the death of an Indian that was killed during an Iranian attack on a vessel.

🇪🇪🇷🇺⚡- Russia conducted live-fire exercises on Lake Peipus without prior notification to Estonia, marking an unprecedented breach of established practice along the two countries’ shared border.

🇮🇹🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- The sixth round of Lebanon-Israel talks have begun in Rome, Italy.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli drone operating over Baalbek, northeast Lebanon.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "The Israel Airports Authority today issued an exceptional temporary directive to Israeli air traffic control, stating that 'US refuelling aircraft must not be permitted to land at Ben Gurion Airport'. It is believed that the directive came from the office of Transport Minister Miri Regev.

According to the Israel Airports Authority, this poses a renewed threat to some 50,000 flight tickets, which will be cancelled during July if the withdrawal does not proceed." - Kan News, Israeli media.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian Local government officials reports that Abadan and Bandar-e Mahshahr, Western Iran was also hit during the wave of attacks 50 minutes ago.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- I24 News, Israeli Media, report that an Israeli airstrike on a police post in northern Gaza killed the Hamas police chief for Jabalia. Local media report up to 9 killed in the strike.