🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — The IDF has issued an evacuation warning for the village of Shamaa in southern Lebanon ahead of Israeli attacks.

➡️ Residents are urged to move at least 1 kilometer away from the village.

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — Israeli forces killed four Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Monday.

🇺🇸⚡️ — A new NewsGuard survey found that about 1 in 4 Americans believe the April shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was staged, with sharp partisan differences in opinion.

According to the survey, 24% of U.S. adults said they believed the WHCD dinner shooting was fake, 45% believed it was legitimate, and 32% were unsure. Around one-third of Democrats believed it was staged, compared with roughly one in eight Republicans, while younger respondents aged 18 to 29 were also more likely to believe the conspiracy theory.

The survey also found that 24% of respondents believed the 2024 assassination attempt against Donald Trump in Butler was staged, including 42% of Democrats and 7% of Republicans.

Meanwhile, 16% believed the assassination attempt at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach was staged, including 26% of Democrats and 7% of Republicans.

Overall, 21% of Democratic respondents said they believed all three incidents were staged, compared with 11% of independents and 3% of Republicans.

🇩🇪🇺🇦⚡️ — Germany and Ukraine announced a major joint drone-production agreement on Monday covering both battlefield drones with ranges under 100 kilometers and long-range drones capable of flying up to 1,500 kilometers.

➡️ The partnership will involve co-developing and producing a wide range of drone systems, from tactical battlefield platforms to deep-strike drones designed for long-range operations.

🇮🇱🇪🇺⚡️ — A New York Times investigation found that Israel ran a coordinated, multi-year campaign to turn Eurovision Song Contest into a soft-power tool, spending at least $1 million on Eurovision promotion, including more than $800,000 around the 2024 contest in Malmö alone, partly funded by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “hasbara” office.

➡️ Israel bought multilingual ads urging viewers to vote up to 20 times, while Netanyahu, diplomats, and pro-Israel groups coordinated online campaigns and lobbying efforts to keep Israel in the contest. Israeli embassies also pressured broadcasters and foreign ministries as several countries pushed to ban Israel over the Gaza war.

➡️ The investigation found Israel’s contestants won public votes in countries where Israel polls poorly, and analysis suggested only a few hundred repeat voters could swing results. However, the report found no evidence of bots or covert vote manipulation.

➡️ The European Broadcasting Union kept full voting data secret, canceled an emergency vote on Israel’s participation, discouraged broadcasters from speaking to journalists, and instead adopted vague rule changes limiting “disproportionate promotion campaigns.”

➡️ The controversy led Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, and Slovenia to boycott the 2026 contest in Vienna.

🇵🇸⚡️ — WATCH: Palestinians in Gaza train in a gym beneath the rubble of a damaged building.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ — Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for China and has resigned from her position.

➡️ Wang was charged in April with acting on behalf of Chinese officials, including sharing pro-Beijing articles, without notifying the U.S. government as required by law.

➡️ The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison.

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — The Israeli army has decided to establish a factory to produce explosive drones as part of its response to Hezbollah's drone capabilities, according to Yedioth Ahronoth.

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — IDF spokesman Avichay Adraee issues an urgent warning to residents of Arzoun, Tayr Debba, Al-Bazourieh, and Al-Housh in Lebanon to immediately evacuate their homes and move at least 1,000 meters into open areas, citing Hezbollah's ceasefire violations and warning that anyone near Hezbollah members, facilities, or equipment is at risk.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️ — A message received on many Israeli phones, claiming to be from the Islamic Republic of Iran:

the islamic republic of iran invites you to cooperate in the intelligence field.
for cooperation, contact iranian embassies in various countries, or one of the iranian cyber operators online. start building your future now.

🛢📈⚡️ — Brent crude futures rise more than 2% to $106.38 per barrel, according to Reuters.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇦🇪⚡️ — U.S. ambassador to Israel Huckabee confirms that Israel sent Iron Dome batteries and personnel to the UAE during the Iran war.

🇱🇧🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️ — Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem, in a message to Hezbollah fighters, said their drones, missiles and operations are inflicting fear and psychological pressure on Israel, vowing the group will not leave the field and will turn it into "hell for Israel."

➡️ Qassem called for withdrawal from direct negotiations, describing them as free concessions to Israel, while stating that a potential Iranian-American agreement halting aggression against Lebanon remains the strongest card to stop the offensive.

➡️ Qassem stressed that weapons and resistance are internal Lebanese matters with no external party having any say, and that Hezbollah will respond to all violations and will not return to pre-March 2nd conditions.

🇬🇧⚡️ — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told his cabinet that he will not be resigning.