GeoPWatch

21 August 2025 16:00

🇮🇱🇪🇬 — A few weeks ago, the IDF held exercises on the Jordanian-Israeli [right red rectangle] southern borders simulating a sudden large scale multi-front invasion into Israel.

➡️The IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir ordered a surprise inspection of the military’s top headquarters to test their readiness.

➡️Several Egyptian pages raised concerns about the drills, suggesting that they might have been conducted with Egypt in mind, given the similar terrain and border length [left red rectangle].

GeoPWatch

21 August 2025 15:09

⚡️🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 - The IDF's COGAT and Liaison Administration has issued "initial" warnings to the Gazan Medical facilities, authorities and International humanitarian organizations in northern Gaza on Tuesday, the 19th of August, ahead of the incoming "Gideon's Chariot B" major offensive and annexation attempt.

The warnings order the facilities to prepare the civilian population for mass displacement and evacuation towards southern Gaza.

📝 IDF transcripts state, COGAT officers were heard saying during the warnings [click to expand]:

» I am speaking with you about the possibility of the army entering Gaza City, there will be a full evacuation from Gaza to the southern Strip.

»This requires you to prepare a plan for transferring medical equipment from north to south, so that you can provide care for all patients in the southern Strip and prepare the hospitals to receive patients coming from the north.

» It is important to us that you receive this from an official source. We are going to provide you with a place to be, whether it is a field hospital or any other hospital.

GeoPWatch

21 August 2025 10:55

🇪🇬❌🇵🇸 — Egyptian embassy staff members in New York kidnapped a pro Palestine protestor which forced th US police to enter the building and pull him out.

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21 August 2025 10:34

🇺🇸🇰🇷❌🇰🇵 — The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) revealed the Sinpung-dong missile operating base, an unreported North Korean facility located about 25 km from the Chinese border, believed to house nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States.

GeoPWatch

21 August 2025 08:02

🇱🇧❌🇵🇸🇵🇸 — Circulating reports of the Lebanese army arresting a Fatah official in Lebanon, Shadi Al-Far, and two others from the Venezia Hotel.

➡️This came a few weeks after the Lebanese government has discussed disarming the Palestinian refugee camps.

GeoPWatch

21 August 2025 06:19

🇸🇩❌🇸🇩 — Massive convoy of SAF trucks ambushed by RSF forces in Kordofan region

➡️A convoy of around 40 armored trucks belonging to the Baraa bin Malik legion of the SAF was completely destroyed in an ambush carried out by RSF fighters. Casualties are reported to be high.

➡️Summary executions were carried out by RSF fighters on every survivor, and the Baraa bin Malik legion announced the death of their second in command in Kordofan, Muhnad Ibrahim Fadl.

GeoPWatch

21 August 2025 01:20

🇸🇾🗳— Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa formally ratifies the temporary electoral system for the People's Assembly.

➡️ The High Committee will begin implementing the procedures tomorrow, showing a significant step in Syrian democracy.

GeoPWatch

20 August 2025 19:23

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The message from U.S. Envoy Steve Shitkoff, which was conveyed to Iran's SNSC chairman Ali Larijani today by Switzerland, contained 'guarantees' that the U.S. would not attack Iran during any renewed nuclear negotiations – Al Mayadeen

@Middle_East_Spectator

GeoPWatch

20 August 2025 18:14

🇺🇸🇲🇽 — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that Trump ordered the entire southern border wall to be painted black, so it will get hot in the sun and "make it even harder for people to climb."

Sounds brilliant until the sunset

GeoPWatch

20 August 2025 14:44

🇮🇱📞🇫🇷 — Netanyahu urged Macron to "act against antisemitism" in France before September 23.

Sounds like a threat with a deadline to me

GeoPWatch

20 August 2025 13:48

🇺🇸🇦🇿🇦🇲 — Trump mispronounced "Azerbaijan" and mistakenly referred to Armenia as Albania.

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20 August 2025 13:42

🇮🇱🇸🇾📞🇺🇸 — A few hours before the first Syrian-Israeli meeting in Paris with the presence of the American envoy, Mowafaq Tarif, the Druze Sheikh of Israel, met with the American envoy and requested the necessity of opening a humanitarian corridor with Sweida.

GeoPWatch

20 August 2025 12:05

⚡️🇵🇸🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 - According to IDF reports, An AlQassam Brigades Unit of 18 Personnel raided an IDF Encampment Site belonging to the IDF's "900th (Kfir)" Brigade’s "Haruv" Reconnaissance Unit in southern Gaza's Khan Yunis, near the "Morag" Corridor this morning at 9 am.

The Unit emerged from a tunnel nearby the site, stormed the camp and fired RPG's and Machine Guns. The IDF claims to have killed 8 personnel while exchanging fire, while the rest escaped.

🤔 Meanwhile, the IDF claims 3 of it’s soldiers were injured, 2 of them in “good condition”, conflicting Hebrew reports, which state IDF troops were killed.

The IDF is currently scouting the area of attack for remaining troops.

GeoPWatch

20 August 2025 11:20

⚡️🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 - Yesterday night, Israel's Defense Minister Yizrael Katz, alongside the IDF's Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, Shin Bet representatives and IDF officers have approved the plans set to annex northern Gaza's Gaza City.

➡️ The major offensive, titled "Gideon's Chariot B", is to-be a continuation of previous [failed] "Gideon's Chariot" operation, which also sought to annex Gaza, including the north.

➡️ "Gideon's Chariot B" is to include 5 IDF Divisions, 14 Brigade-level-teams, set to participate in the offensive. The IDF is to issue a call-up order for 60k Reservists today, alongside the currently present ten's of thousands deployed in Gaza. The Reservists are to be deployed in waves, 70%-80% of them by September 2nd, the next in November-December, and the final in February-March of 2026.

➡️ The IDF has stated that not all 60k troops will participate in the capture of Gaza city, rather will be deployed in other fronts as well.

📝 The Operation has already begun in northern Gaza's Zeitoun and Jabalia.

GeoPWatch

20 August 2025 10:58

#BREAKING
⚡️🇱🇧❌🇮🇱 - Preliminary reports of a security incident on the northern Border with Lebanon

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21 August 2025 15:44

🇮🇱🤝🇱🇧 — The Lebanese state returned the Israeli citizen, Saleh Abu Hussein, who was detained last year in Lebanon for spying for Israel and is reportedly a member of the Mista'arvim unit.

GeoPWatch

21 August 2025 13:56

🇱🇧❌🇵🇸 — Lebanese Al-Jadeed Newspaper:

The process of handing over Palestinian weapons from the Burj al-Barajneh camp to the Lebanese army begins today, and meanwhile, communications are taking place between the army and those concerned in the camp to start the implementation steps.

GeoPWatch

21 August 2025 10:36

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺🤝🇰🇵 — Kim Jong Un honored the commanders of the North Korean army who participated in the Battle of Kursk.

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21 August 2025 08:04

🇸🇾🇮🇱🇸🇾 — Just a few hours after the direct Israeli-Syrian meeting in Paris regarding the situation in Suwieda, the Syrian government and the bedouin tribes have withdrew from 38 towns in the Suweida governance and are currently positioned outside of it, according to Sky News.

GeoPWatch

21 August 2025 07:57

🇦🇪🤝🇮🇱 — A UAE military cargo plane landed at an Israeli military base.

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21 August 2025 02:53

🇺🇸 — Vice President JD Vance and ex-Department of Government Efficiency leader Elon Musk have both denied a Wall Street Journal report claiming that Musk was reconsidering his third-party "America Party" bid in favor of backing JD Vance in 2028.

➡️ Elon Musk replied to a post announcing the story, stating that "nothing WSJ says should ever be thought of as true", while Vice President Vance said the story seems "completely fake", claims to have had no conversations with Elon Musk (or any donor) about his plans for 2028, while also warning Musk against forming a third political party.

GeoPWatch

20 August 2025 19:29

🇮🇷🇺🇸 — Barak Ravid, Axios correspondent says that a source told him no such message was delivered from Witkoff.

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20 August 2025 18:59

🇮🇱🇯🇴🇪🇬 — Israeli Energy Minister:

Gas deals make Egypt and Jordan connected to us, and in simple terms, we hold the switch.

GeoPWatch

20 August 2025 17:06

🇺🇸🤝🇮🇱❌🧑‍⚖️ — Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced new US sanctions against ICC judges in response to the court's "ongoing threat to Americans and Israelis."

@TabZLIVE

GeoPWatch

20 August 2025 14:27

🇺🇸❌🏴 — Syrian state media reports the capturing of Abu Hafs al-Qurayshi, a senior member of ISIS, in Āţimah, Syria by International Coalition forces.

GeoPWatch

20 August 2025 13:42

🇵🇸🇯🇴🇮🇱⚡- Jordanian intelligence have arrested a Jordanian citizen Ahmad Adnan Al-Rumhi, Head of the pro-Palestinian "Anti-Zionism and Racism Association" organization.

GeoPWatch

20 August 2025 12:38

⚡️🇵🇸🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 - The AlQassam Brigades has took responsibility of the operation, and has announced raiding an IDF campsite in southeastern Khan Yunis, southern Gaza.

The Unit begun the attack by destroying a number of "Merkava IV" Tanks guarding the post using "Fida'i" 105mm IED, "Shuath" EFP's and "Yassin-105mm" (PG-7VR) Dual-Warhead Tandems. Moreover, a commander of a tank was sniped, killing him.

The Unit then targeted buildings within the site the IDF Force was fortifying in using 6 Anti-Personnel and Anti-Fortification Projectiles, and machine gun fire.

Next, the Unit entered the targeted buildings, and killed the remaining IDF soldiers at point-blank range using rifles and hand grenades.

Upon the arrival of an IDF Reinforcement Unit, an AlQassam Brigades Personnel detonated a SBIED vest amongst the IDF soldiers, causing causalities.

The AlQassam Brigades then shelled the surrounding areas to cut off supply routes, and shelled the area using Mortar Fire to cover the Units withdrawal.

The attack lasted for several hours, IDF Medivac helicopters were observed, confirming causalities.

📝 With such a swift, immediate and detailed AlQassam Brigades announcement, IDF censorship and lies were quickly dismissed.

GeoPWatch

20 August 2025 11:22

⚡️🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 - The IDF has announced that it has begun supplying southern Gaza with "humanitarian infrastructure" including aid distribution sites and 2 Field Hospitals, and the reopening of the 'European Gaza' Hospital of Khan Yunis, to accommodate for an estimated 1 million displaced Palestinian civilian from northern Gaza, after it'll issue an evacuation warning.

📝 An IDF security official states [click to expand]:

» As part of the preparations to move the population from Gaza City to the southern Gaza Strip, talks have begun with international organizations to recruit them to establish additional field hospitals in the south, and there is a positive response to this

» There are also plans to expand the existing medical infrastructure in the south in cooperation with the organizations, and in addition, options are being examined to open access routes to additional medical facilities.

» The UN and the organizations have begun formulating a plan to restart the European Hospital as an additional medical response

GeoPWatch

20 August 2025 11:05

#correction
⚡️🇮🇱❌🇸🇾 - An old Syrian explosive in IDF-Captured Mount Hermon detonated, injuring 7 soldiers, 4 in serious conditions.

GeoPWatch

20 August 2025 10:56

⚡️🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 - Ongoing mortar fire by Palestinian Factions towards the area.