🇵🇸🇮🇱Palestinian-Israeli conflict: the latest news of the hour:

Northern direction:
Another landing operation carried out in Zikim, factions continue to control part of the Ashkelon highway, besieging military garrisons.
The IDF was able to counterattack near Erez.
A clearing operation is underway in Sderot following the transfer of an Israeli commando.

Eastern direction:
Fighting continues in Be'eri. Hamas reportedly managed to dig a tunnel into the town in order to quickly bring in reinforcements.

Southern direction:
The situation near Gaza's southern borders is shrouded in a "fog of war" - no active action is known there. There are reports of holidays being cancelled in the Second Field Army of the Egyptian Armed Forces (area of responsibility - Sinai Peninsula).

West Bank:
Palestinian channels published the coordinates of the armouries of the security forces to be seized at nightfall.
In the town of Ariel, a Palestinian tried to break through a roadblock with a tractor, but was injured.

The border with Lebanon:
More than 10 shells were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel. No group, including Hezbollah, claimed responsibility. In response, air strikes hit the Lebanese border towns of Bustan, Marwahin, Al-Zalutiya and Al-Duheira.
The strike may have been initiated by Palestinian factions in southern Lebanon, but hardly without coordination with Hezbollah (the movement adopted a wait-and-see attitude).
Four Palestinians infiltrated across the border and IDF troops exchanged fire with them.

Massive shelling:
Residential neighbourhoods in Rafah, Gaza and Khan Younis were reduced to rubble by massive shelling (hitting several social facilities, including hospitals).
Iron Dome systems intercepted several rockets: hits were recorded in Ashkelon, Ashdod, Tel Aviv, Belmheim airbase, Petah Tikva and Ben-Gurion airport.

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⚡️🇪🇺Developments in the world, such as the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, cannot prevent the EU from providing aid to Ukraine, European Commission spokesman Eric Mamer has said.

"I don't think that whatever is happening can affect the support that the European Union is committed to give to Ukraine. I say this clearly and without any doubt," the spokesman told a briefing in Brussels.

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❗️One Russian was killed in Israel as a result of a Hamas attack on the country — Russian Embassy

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🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦The European Commission stops funding the Palestinian people.

But at the same time the European Commission continues to fund the inhuman Ukrainian regime, whose sole aim is the physical destruction of all Ukrainians and as many Russians as possible. Formal hypocrisy.

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⚡️❗️🇺🇳 Main statements by Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN:

📌Everyone knows who is "giving ammunition" to the UN Secretariat.

📌The attack on Konstyantynovka was carried out by Ukraine and noted that Russia had previously been blamed for it.

📌He expressed surprise at the statement by EU members who are not members of the UN Security Council.

📌Nebenzya recalled the fall of a missile on Polish territory and the fact that Russia was blamed for it. The Russian ambassador to the UN noted that it was later established that the missile was Ukrainian.

📌The funeral of one of the nationalists was held in the village of Groza and many Ukrainian neo-Nazis were present.

📌Russia is not hitting civilians, precision weapons are hitting Ukraine's military potential.

📌A US colleague doesn't want to tell how US troops shot up an Iraqi wedding?

📌When peaceful methods don't work, the goals of the special military operation are achieved by military means.

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Why Iran won without even entering the war:
(Excellent analysis by @boris_rozhin)
1. A large number of Israeli soldiers were killed, including high-ranking ones, some were captured. After 2.5 days, Iran took full revenge for everything. For the killed IRGC officers, for the killed scientists, for the airstrikes in the desert. Revenge is a dish that is served cold.
2. Israel has received the most colossal image blow in recent decades. The blow was inflicted on the image of the IDF, Mossad, Merkava tanks, Iron Dome and other "constants" of the Israeli power myth. The massacres in Gaza and the attempt to clean up Gaza are, first of all, an attempt to restore a cracked myth so that Israel will be feared again, and not laughed at. And therefore it is necessary to smear blood from head to toe. Regardless of what caused the incident - total bungling or an attempt to use the Hamas attack to attack Gaza in the style of September 11 to solve domestic political problems.
3. Iran acts as the main informal defender of the Palestinians and Muslims, fighting for this role with Turkey. This role is not seriously disputed by many, especially in the Shiite world.
4. The war in Gaza has already led to the suspension of negotiations on the normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. This normalization was directed against Iran. Now it is slowed down or frozen for a long time.
5. Sudan
restored relations with Iran after a long time. Although it stands for the normalization of relations with Israel.
And this will not be an isolated revision.
6. The atrocities committed by Israel in Gaza attract and will attract into the ranks of the Iranian proxies a large number of young recruits throughout the region. Iran will not have problems replenishing the ranks of its proxies for a long time, especially from the Palestinian environment, whose hatred of Israel will continue to grow exponentially.
7. The US plans to normalize relations between Israel and the Arab worlds will be torpedoed as the war drags on, and the part of the Arab world that previously treated Iran coolly will instead consider options for normalizing relations with Iran. This is also a blow to Washington's policy and its further weakening, since by taking the side of Israel, the United States will continue to lose its position in the Arab world.
Actually, this is Iran's strategy, to win without fighting. Therefore, Iran has defiantly evaded and is evading scenarios that will lead to its direct participation in the war. Iran is acting within the framework of Qassem Suleimani's strategy, which has allowed Iran to become the dominant power in the region.
Iran's goal is to weaken its enemies - the United States and Israel by wars through its proxies - Hezbollah, AnsarAllah, Kataib-Hezbollah, Hamas, etc. No matter how independent they are, the main thing is whether they can be pieces in a big chess game, where Iran is destined to play the role of a grandmaster moving pieces. Sulemaini, as part of his strategy, created the pieces for this game. This is how Iran won in Lebanon. This is how Iran won in Syria. That's how he won in Iraq. And that's how he won in Yemen.
And in the Iranian game against Israel and the United States, Gaza is a gambit pawn, with its own will, at the beginning of a new long game. Israel's choice - the invasion of Gaza or concessions after the catastrophe, is a choice of two obviously bad options, both of which Iran will definitely use, but will try to do it with someone else's hands. This does not mean that Iran was preparing the current attack, but it certainly formed the prerequisites in the region for it to become possible.

🇬🇧 Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn refused to condemn Hamas and called for an end to Israel's occupation of Palestine

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❗️🇺🇦Captured Ukrainian soldier tells about the terrible attitude of the command towards mobilised soldiers

"I was drafted in Kharkiv. I was trained in Britain. I was trained by Swedish military instructors. They taught me tactics, shooting. After arriving at the front, I stayed there less than two days and surrendered to Russian soldiers," said a captured soldier of the 77th Airmobile Brigade of the AFU.

He notes the terrible attitude of the officers of his brigade towards the mobilised. The commander openly told them that they had all been sold in advance and would be killed.

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