🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- The number of casualties rises to 18, including 3 in critical condition - Kan

— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: When Iran attacked Israel, the country's military officials had already assumed that an Israeli retaliation would take place, and they had even prepared for a limited war that they assumed would last anywhere between 1-3 months; the assessment was that at some point, a risk had to be taken to restore deterrence, regardless of the outcome – Iranian Official

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇹🇷🇵🇸⚡️- Turkish President Erdogan and Hamas leader Haniyeh to hold talks in Turkey on April 20th

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 | NEW: 'If Iran succeeds in significantly escalating its assault on Israel, the U.S. could be drawn in' – Joe Biden for WSJ

@MilitaryPOV

🇬🇪⚡- Georgian Police have barricaded entrances of the Parliament against the waves of protests. Tensions continue to escalate, as the Foreign Agent bill has been passed.

🇪🇺🇽🇰 - Yesterday's voting has come through, regarding Kosovo's entrance into Council of Europe.

🇬🇪⚡- Pro-Western Georgian President, Salome Zurabishvili, said she would veto the Foreign Agent bill, after it had passed in Parliament.

However, the Georgian Parliament can override a President's veto if the bill passes as a Parliamentary majority.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli and American sources told Axios that Israel planned to carry out its retaliatory strike on Iran on Monday evening, but ultimately delayed it

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Rumors that Israel will wait until the end of Passover, April 30th, to retaliate against Iran.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Israeli airstrike near the Egyptian border in Rafah

🇬🇪⚡- Scenes from Georgia, this evening. Protests have entered the fourth day, with numbers reaching tens of thousands, spreading into other cities too.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- The United States has restored sanctions against Venezuela due to "non-compliance" with the Barbados agreement on Venezuela's elections

🇫🇷✡️⚡️- French “right wing” politician Eric Zemmour, who is an Algerian Jew, stated at a National Conservatism conference that “Europe is not a country. Europe is not a people or a nation,” adding that Europe was forged by “Judeo-Christianity” and “the Greco-Roman spirit.”

🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- Israeli raid on Kafr Kila, southern Lebanon kills 2

🇨🇳🇵🇸🇺🇳⚡️- China declares its support for Palestine's admission to the UN.

🇦🇷⚡- Argentina have submitted their application to join NATO as an 'Official Partner', a status similar to that of Australia, Japan, Pakistan, South Korea and others.

🇬🇪⚡- Georgia's more pro-Russian Prime Minister, Irakli Garibashvili, has said the controversial Foreign Agent bill "will help prevent Ukrainization".

To which the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reacted furiously, stating, "Russification, but not mythical ‘Ukrainization’, is a real threat to Georgia."

Georgia's pro-Western President, Salome Zurabishvili, again reiterated she will veto the "scandalous bill", but this time acknowledged that her veto will be "overturned", as the bill is supported by the "majority of Georgia's Parliament".

🇰🇪⚡- Kenya's Chief of Defense Francis Ogolla dies in helicopter crash.

🇬🇪⚡- Scenes from Zugdidi today, a town of only 40,000, but drew crowds of thousands to protest, according to Georgian media.

Zugdidi, ironically, also borders Abkhazia, and the city was the scene of a major battle in 2008, which saw Russian forces temporarily capture the outskirts.

Protests continued across the country, from Telavi to Batumi.