🇮🇱🇱🇧 - Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem:
"We will not hand over our weapons to Israel and will defend ourselves if attacked".
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸 - David Barnea, the director of Israel's Mossad spy agency, visited Washington this week seeking U.S. help in convincing countries to take hundreds of thousands of Gazans.
Barnea told White House envoy Steve Witkoff that Ethiopia, Indonesia and Libya had expressed openness to receiving large numbers of Gazans. Witkoff was non-committal, and it's not clear if the U.S. will actively weigh in on this issue.
- Axios | @thewarreporterr
🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Rakan Al-Khudair, Head of the Southern Syrian Tribes Assembly:
"If the Syrian state is unable to maintain security, the tribes will take matters into their own hands".
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🇸🇾🇸🇾🇩🇪 - Germany says it will support the Syrian government 'if Damascus prevents religious or ethnic persecutions'.
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇪🇬 — Egypt is under pressure to play a more active role in the Abraham Accords.
Cairo has received direct messages from Washington linking continued economic aid and international institutional support to the country's commitment to new regional alliances, including improved public relations with Israel.
— Al-Araby Al-Jadeed citing diplomatic sources | @thewarreporterr
🇺🇳🇸🇾 - A large convoy of over 30 UN military vehicles reportedly departed from Al-Rafid in the Quneitra countryside, southern Syria, heading toward an undisclosed location.
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🇸🇾🇸🇾🇮🇱 - Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has ordered the transfer of an aid package worth 2 million shekels to the Druze in Sweida, which will include food packages, medical equipment, and medicines.
- Israeli Channel 12 | @thewarreporterr
🇮🇱🇮🇷 - Two U.S. intelligence sources have confirmed that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was indeed injured during one of Israel's attacks on Iran last month.
During an interview with Tucker Carlson earlier this month, Pezeshkian claimed Israel attempted to assassinate him by bombarding an area in which he was participating in a meeting. However, it remains unclear if he was intentionally targeted.
- CBS News | @thewarreporterr
🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Bedouin tribal forces seize areas in western Suwayda countryside and reach the city entrance.
- Al Jazeera | @thewarreporterr
🇺🇳🇸🇾🇨🇳🇮🇱🇨🇳 - Chinese Representative to the UN Security Council:
"Israel's attacks on Syria are condemned, and Israel must cease all military strikes.
Syrian authorities must take action against all terrorist groups, including the Turkistan Islamic Party".
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🇺🇳🇸🇾🇸🇾🇮🇱 - Israeli Representative to the UN Security Council:
"The Torah says: 'Do not stand idly by while your neighbor's blood is shed'. This is not just a religious duty, but a moral one. We won't stand by as our close kin are killed.
That's why Israel carried out targeted strikes on jihadist militants in southern Syria".
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🇮🇱🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Syrian Presidency:
"We warn against the continued blatant Israeli interventions in our internal affairs".
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🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Bedouin tribe members reportedly carried out suicide bombing operations amid clashes with Druze groups in Sweida.
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🇮🇱🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Israeli Broadcasting Authority denies reports of airstrikes on southern Syria.
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🇮🇱🇮🇱🇸🇾 - A photo taken today in Syria shows a person in military uniform wearing the flag of the Jewish Hasidic movement Chabad on his arm.
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🇮🇱🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Israel and Syria are holding indirect talks to restore calm in Suwayda.
- Levant 24 citing sources close to the government | @thewarreporterr
🇺🇳🇸🇾 - A UN convoy in Daraa, southern Syria, has reportedly been stopped by Bedouin tribal forces.
According to reports, the convoy was en route to Suweida, which led the tribal forces to deny it passage.
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🇮🇱🇵🇸🇩🇪 - German Chancellor Merz told Israeli PM Netanyahu that 'there must be no steps toward annexing the West Bank'.
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🇮🇷🇱🇧🇸🇾 - Iran is smuggling weapons to Hezbollah in small vehicles through Syria, after previously using trucks for smuggling.
- Wall Street Journal | @thewarreporterr
🇸🇾🇸🇾🇮🇱 - An Israeli political source told Israel Hayom:
"In light of the ongoing instability in southwestern Syria, Israel has agreed to allow limited entry of Syrian Internal Security forces into the Sweida Governorate for the next 48 hours".
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🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Clashes are ongoing between Bedouin tribes and Druze groups.
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🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Syrian Internal Security forces are preparing to enter Suwayda.
- Syria TV | @thewarreporterr
🇺🇸🇸🇾🇸🇾 - The U.S. State Department reiterated its Level 4 travel warning for Syria, urging Americans to leave the country via Jordan due to ongoing armed conflict.
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🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Bedouin tribes have reached the gate of the Suwayda Governorate center.
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🇺🇳🇸🇾🇮🇱🇷🇺 - Russian Representative to the UN Security Council:
"Israel's strikes on Syria are unacceptable.
There are atrocities committed by armed factions in Syria attacking civilians as happened on the Syrian coast. Russia demands Damascus protect Russian citizens and Russian facilities amid the escalation".
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🇺🇳🇸🇾🇮🇱🇮🇷 - Iranian Representative to the UN Security Council:
"We affirm our support for Syria's sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity. We condemn the widespread military attacks on Syria.
The Zionist regime has become the worst threat to regional peace and security in the region".
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🇺🇳🇸🇾🇮🇱 - Syrian Representative to the UN Security Council:
"Israel is trying to drag Syria into a conflict arena. The wisdom of the Syrian leadership has spared the region from an open conflict".
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🇮🇱🇸🇾 - Reports circulating about an Israeli assassination operation in Damascus, attributed to Israeli Channel 14, are baseless, as the channel has released no such report.
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🇸🇾 - Roads leading to Umayyad Square in Damascus have been blocked.
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🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Bedouin tribes have taken control of the town of al-Mazraa in Sweida.
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