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🇮🇱🇺🇸🇸🇾❌🇮🇷 — Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa tells the Jewish Journal that they've both (Trump and Sharaa) been shot at by the same enemy, likely hinting to Iran.
➡️Earlier today, Al-Sharaa said Israel and Syria share “mutual enemies”, answering a question regarding the possibility of normalization with Israel.
⚡️🔴🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 - The Saraya AlQuds (PIJ) Brigades has published footage of an attack on IDF Infantry soldiers in "Shuja'iyya", northern Gaza.
The Unit planted a number of "M15" Anti-Tank and Claymore [likely "Television 3"] Anti-Personnel mines within a building, and upon the arrival of at least 8 soldiers, the explosives were detonated.
🇨🇳❌🇺🇸📞🇹🇼🇯🇵🇰🇷🇧🇳 — US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned at the Shangri-La Dialogue forum in Singapore that Chinese aggression against Taiwan may be inevitable and Asia should be prepared for the worst.
➡️Hegseth called on Asian countries to follow NATO's example and increase defense spending to 5% of GDP , calling growing threats from China "real" and potentially "imminent."
➡️He said China's behavior toward its neighbors and the world was "worrying," noting Chinese President Xi Jinping's order for his military to be capable of invading Taiwan by 2027.
➡️Hegseth called on Asian countries to free themselves from economic dependence on China.
Russia is reportedly considering the deployment of intermediate- and long-range missiles in the city of Sabha, Libya. According to a report by Nova, these missiles would be positioned with Europe as their intended target.
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🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — Hebrew media reports that crowds have stormed the new aid distribution center, and that staff have withdrawn from the site.
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🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — Netanyahu released a video marking the anniversary of Israel’s full occupation of East Jerusalem, from a tunnel beneath Al-Aqsa Mosque that runs from Silwan Palestinian neighborhood to directly under the mosque.
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🇵🇸❌🇮🇱🌐 — Pro Palestine Turkish-American leftist streamer Hasan Piker has been suspended from Twitch, 48 hours after ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called for his deplatforming.
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🇷🇺⁉️ — A large number of Russian Air Force/Government planes leave Moscow
Tu-214PU-SBUS Command Post – Airborne Military Command and Control reg. RA-64530, multiple Tu-154 & FSB's An-148s.
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⚡️🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 — Hebrew Media reports a "security incident" in northern Gaza.
Three IDF injuries have been reported and evacuated, details to follow.
🇸🇾🤝🇱🇧🇱🇧 — Lebanese Army announced that the Syrian government handed over a gang leader responsible for the killing of Pascal Suleiman, a leader in the Lebanese Forces party in 2024.
➡️Lebanese Forces figures previously accused Hezbollah of being behind the attack, even though Nasrallah denied the claims saying they were intended to create secterian strife.
🇮🇱 — Al Jazeera research shows the top countries selling to Israel, topped by China.
➡️Turkey was among the top five countries in the world that exported goods to Israel in 2024, despite Erdogan's statements of halting all trades with Israel.
🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — Image displays the leader of the IDF affiliated mercenary "Counter-Terrorism" unit Yasir Abu Al-Shabab armed with an Israeli-made "M4A1", a helmet and bulletproof vest, with IDF "Merkava" Tanks in the background.
The image was posted by the group, claiming they've now secured the humanitarian aid in an effort to ensure the success of the American-Israeli distribution plan.
➡️ The plan aims at displacing the people of the Gaza strip from north to south, where the aid distribution points are set to be.
➡️ Over the past 2 years of war, Yasir and his gang have been raiding and robbing aid trucks, luring Gazan security forces to get nearby and protect the trucks then end up struck by Israel.
➡️ The "Unit" is reportedly hiding in the very south of Rafah, under the protection of the IDF.
🇱🇧❌🇵🇸 — The withdrawal of weapons from Palestinian camps in Lebanon will begin in mid-June according to sources.
➡️The first phase of the withdrawal of Palestinian weapons will be from Beirut camps.
➡️The disarmament of the camps in the Bekaa and North will begin next July.
➡️Hamas and PIJ will be informed about the details in around 2 days.
🇺🇸🤝🇸🇾 —The US State Department issued a 180-day waiver from sanctions imposed on Syria under the Caesar Act.
➡️ Among the lifted sanctions, the sanctions against Jolani/Ahmad Al-Sharaa, the Syrian President were lifted.
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🇵🇸❌🇸🇾 — Sources confirmed to Quds Network that a number of Palestinian faction leaders have left Syria, including:
Talal Naji, Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command; Ziad al-Saghir, Fatah al-Intifada official; and Khaled Abdul Majeed, Secretary-General of the Popular Struggle Front.Читать полностью…
⚡️🔴🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 - The Saraya AlQuds (PIJ) Brigades has published a video of an attack on an IDF "D9 Caterpillar" Bulldozer advancing in eastern Khan Yunis, southern Gaza.
The unit used a EFP, detonated via pressure plate towards the bulldozer. Reinforcements arrived to evacuate the causalities.
🇮🇷👮✈️ — Iranian authorities issued a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) warning of Missile launches in the Bandar-e Jask / Gulf of Oman area, from June 1 to June 2.
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🇺🇸📈 — Trump stated that he’s raising aluminum and steel tariffs from 25% to 50%.
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🇨🇳🚀 — China's private space company Sepoch has successfully tested the country's first reusable rocket.
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🇦🇪🇸🇾📞🇮🇱 — Reuters reports that Israel and Syria held face-to-face meetings to contain security tensions:
➡️According to Reuters, direct meetings between Syria and Israel were held on the border, including in Israeli-occupied territory.
➡️Security leader Ahmed al-Dalati led the Syrian delegation in negotiations with Israel.
➡️Israel and Syria are in direct contact and have held face-to-face meetings in recent weeks.
➡️These contacts represent a significant development in relations between the two countries, which have been on opposite sides of the Middle East conflict for decades, as the United States encourages the new Islamist rulers in Damascus to establish relations with Israel.
⚡️🇵🇸🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 - The AlQassam Brigades has announced targeting an IDF Infantry force that fortified in a building in the "AlNazzaz" street of eastern "Shuja'iyya", northern Gaza, using an Anti-Personnel projectile.
The Unit proceeded to clash with the surviving force using rifles, and confirms the killing of the targeted soldiers, after finding their remains scattered in the area.
The Unit had also targeted a "Merkava" tank using a "Yassin-105mm" (PG-7VR) Dual-Warhead tandem. The attacks took place on the 22nd of May.
🇷🇺⁉️ — Tu-214Pu-SBUS & Tu-214ON landed in Samara.
More planes took off, heading east
🇹🇷🇮🇱🇵🇸 — Turkish police dragged Turkish women protesting in solidarity with Gaza in front of the Israeli embassy in Ankara.
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⬛⁉️❌🇸🇾 -- An explosion targeted a headquarters of the General Security in al-Jala, Al Bukamal countryside in eastern Syria
➡️ Perpetrators are unknown, but Islamic State terrorists are suspected, likely continued retaliation for the crackdown on its' cells in Aleppo recently
➡️ Syrian government forces have also been conducting anti-smuggling operations in al Bukamal in the past few days, shutting down arm smuggling networks in the area.
➡️ Initial toll suggests 3 General Security members killed and 4 others injured
⚡️🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 - Previously, i created a comparison chart that visualizes the [KIA] causalities in modern combat, all the way from WW2 [relative to the prior global population], up until the ongoing war in Gaza [relative to the Gazan (2.2m) population].
The case study concluded a killed figure of 7.5% out of the total population in Gaza, the highest in modern history in accordance to scale.
Earlier today, the I24 Israeli News Outlet has reported a decrease of 7.5% in the "Gazan population" since the 7th of October, 2023, confirming my data.
❌ — X is currently suffering heavy outages, direct messages, notifications and posts are currently unavailable to millions of users.
➡️ This screenshot from 2023 may explain why.
🇹🇷🗨️🇸🇩 | Turkish Ambassador to Sudan Criticizes Western Policy on X
Hartum Büyükelçisi, Ambassador of Türkiye to Sudan, published a pointed statement on X criticizing foreign involvement in Sudan:
They lost their credibility years ago, when they initiated a war through the false claims of the existence of WMD in Iraq…
When I say 'they', they are 2 who initiated the war, 1 of which always follows the other, as they did so today regarding Sudan.
Nevertheless, there is another one whom they both follow.
🇮🇱🤝🇱🇧🇸🇾⁉️ — Israeli Ambassador to Washington Yehiel Leiter said that Syria and Lebanon may join the Abraham Accords.
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🇺🇸🤝🇸🇾 — The US Treasury issues a decision to "immediately ease sanctions on Syria."
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🇮🇱🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — Netanyahu's candidate for Shin Bet chief:
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