🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- Another targeted vehicle attack by an Israeli drone in Shahabieh region, southern Lebanon

🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- IDF announces killing of Hezbollah coastal region official Ismail Al-Baz in Tyre car bombing

🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡️- Russian President Putin stated that Iran's missile strikes on Israel was the "best way to punish the aggressor," and blamed the UN Security Council's failure to condemn the Israeli strike on Iran's embassy in Damascus as the cause for the retaliation.

🇺🇦🇮🇳⚡- "India is avoiding any contacts with Kyiv due to its pro-Russian position," – Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Foreign Policy and Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation, Alexander Merezhko.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: More than half of the Iranian drones and missiles that were downed were in fact shot down by the U.S. Navy and Air Force, and Israel would likely have struggled tremendously without direct U.S. intervention – U.S. Officials

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- Ukrainian forces have fled Kanal, the final district before Chasov-Yar itself.

🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️- Israel's War Cabinet meeting has ended, and the cabinet decided to strike inside Iran, which should begin "as soon as possible," per Israeli Channel 12

🇬🇪⚡️- Georgian riot police and special forces have arrived at the parliament building in Tblisi to contain demonstrators

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- British and German Foreign Ministers will put pressure on Israel not to respond to Iran.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- An Axios source says Iran will respond to any major and public Israeli strike on its territory with new missile and UAV strikes. It will also be difficult for Israel to repeat its previous defensive success if Iran launches hundreds of missiles and UAVs again.

🇷🇺⚡- Roskomnadzor is considering blocking TikTok, in Russia, by May 8. The issue will be discussed at the next lower Federal Assembly, State Duma.

🇮🇱 - 50 Israeli survivors of the Nova Music Festival, on October 7th, have since committed suicide. They were "unable" to come to terms with "the savagery and darkness" they "experienced", – Israeli media.

🇬🇪⚡️- Georgian security forces have begun to disperse protesters in Tblisi.

Maidan 2.0 is unfolding right now in Georgia.

🇫🇷🇦🇿⚡- French Foreign Ministry recalls its ambassador to Azerbaijan, accusing Baku of 'damaging' ties.

🇷🇸🇦🇿⚡- Aleksandar Vučić, President of Serbia, called Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan, requesting support of the friendly Azerbaijani people, with the recent pressures Serbia has been facing.

Aliyev reaffirmed his support for Serbia's sovereign integrity, as ties between the two countries have grown to its strongest ever. Only yesterday Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister discussed bolstering the partnership with Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Israeli media: Israel records 60 new disabled people every day due to the war

🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media: Explosion reported at Meron Air Base

🇬🇧🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- British Minister of Foreign Affairs David Cameron: "It's clear the Israelis are making a decision to act. We hope they do so in a way that does as little to escalate this as possible."

🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli officials are reporting that the explosions are the result of drills at the airbase and there is no cause for alarm

🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- Israeli Channel 12: A bomb-laden drone exploded in a gathering of IDF soldiers in Arab Al-Aramsha in the Western Galilee, resulting in 6 immediate casualties, one of whom was seriously injured.

🇷🇺🇦🇲⚡️- Russian peacekeepers have begun the process of withdrawing from Artsakh, which is expected to be completed by September 2024.