🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Israeli PM Netanyahu:
"Witkoff is right, and Hamas is the obstacle to a hostage release deal.
We are now considering alternative options to bring the hostages home, end Hamas's rule, and ensure lasting peace for Israel and our region".
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🇺🇸🇫🇷🇸🇾☀️ - The US, France, and Syria, in a joint statement, said they agreed to hold consultations between Damascus and the SDF in Paris as soon as possible.
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🇺🇸🇵🇸🇱🇾 - US Embassy in Libya:
"Allegations that the US is seeking to relocate Gaza residents to Libya are inflammatory and false".
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🇮🇷🇵🇸🇹🇷 - Iran provided Hamas with financial support worth $100 million last month, transferring the funds to Turkey due to the difficulty of bringing them into Gaza.
- Israeli Channel 13 | @thewarreporterr
🇺🇸🇦🇿🇦🇲 - Armenian CP MP Arman Yeghoyan:
"We have not accepted the US offer to lease the road; we have noticed a danger of ceding sovereignty. We saw the danger not in the implementation of the function, but in the lease itself.
That option was not acceptable to us. There was an exchange of ideas with the Americans, the topic is not continuing in that direction, if we said no, then it's no".
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 - The US nearly ran out of THAAD interceptor missiles during the 12-day war between Israel and Iran.
The conflict exposed serious gaps in U.S. missile-defense supplies and the need to ramp up production for modern, large-scale missile attacks.
- Wall Street Journal | @thewarreporterr
🇫🇷🇵🇸🇮🇱 - Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz:
"We will not allow the establishment of a Palestinian entity that threatens our security and existence and affects our historical right to the land of Israel".
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🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇸 - Israel and the US withdrawing from talks may have been tactical.
- New York Times | @thewarreporterr
🇫🇷🇵🇸🇮🇱 - The West Bank Settlements Council has called on the Israeli government to impose sovereignty over the West Bank following French President Macron's announcement.
- Israeli Army Radio | @thewarreporterr
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇸🇾🇫🇷 - Senior Israeli and Syrian ministers met in Paris for four hours under the auspices of US President Trump's special envoy Tom Barrack and discussed de-escalation of tensions between the countries.
The meeting was the most high-level official engagement between Israel and Syria in more than 25 years.
- Axios | @thewarreporterr
🇫🇷🇵🇸 - French President Macron announces that France will recognize the State of Palestine in September.
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🇮🇱🇮🇷 - Colonel A, the outgoing commander of the IDF's special operations engineering unit Yahalom, revealed in his farewell speech that the unit had also operated in Iran.
- Israel Hayom | @thewarreporterr
🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇸🇶🇦 - US President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff:
"We have decided to recall our team from Doha for consultations after Hamas's response, which shows its unwillingness to reach an agreement regarding Gaza.
Hamas seems uncoordinated and does not show good faith despite the great efforts made by the mediators".
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🇮🇱 - The Israeli Military Police has opened an investigation into 2 soldiers and a non-commissioned officer who are suspected of 'sabotaging several Israeli Air Force drones'.
"The sabotage could have led to the downing of the drones," Israeli military officials told Ynet.
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🇮🇱🇵🇸 - The Israeli security agency Shin Bet says it has arrested the person responsible for planting explosive devices on buses in the Gush Dan area, 5 months after the incident.
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🇺🇸🇫🇷🇸🇾 - The US, France, and Syria in a joint statement:
"We have agreed to ensure that Syria's neighbors do not pose a threat [to Syria] and that Syria will not pose a threat to its neighbors".
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🇮🇱🇵🇸🇦🇪🇯🇴 - The airdrops will be carried out by the UAE and Jordan.
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🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Israel will allow Arab countries to resume airdropping aid to the Gaza Strip.
- Israeli Channel 12 | @thewarreporterr
🇺🇸🇹🇷🇸🇾⬛ - A Syrian security source told Al Jazeera that Turkey also took part in the operation against ISIS in Bab, providing helicopter support.
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🇺🇸🇸🇾⬛ - Last night, US-led international coalition forces, together with the Syrian Defense Ministry and Syrian Interior Ministry, conducted a joint airdrop operation in Bab targeting ISIS members.
The operation lasted until 4 AM, and several arrests were made.
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🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇷🇹🇷 - A French diplomatic source told Al Hadath:
"France will raise the issue of Iran's regional behaviour and missile programme during the talks".
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🇫🇷🇵🇸🇬🇧 - UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing pressure from senior members of his government and French President Macron to imminently recognize Palestine as a sovereign state.
- Bloomberg | @thewarreporterr
🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇸 - A Hamas source told Al Arabiya:
"We are shocked by Witkoff's statements.
We handed over the movement's response, and things were progressing positively. The mediators received the movement's response positively".
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🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇷🇹🇷 - European diplomatic delegations have arrived at the Iranian Consulate in Istanbul to hold talks with Iran.
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🇮🇱❌🇫🇷🇵🇸 — Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar about the French unilateral recognition of Palestine:
The French President's pretension to create by mere words an illusionary arrangement in our land is ridiculous and not serious. His statement this evening shows that all the conditions that he himself set a few weeks ago - have evaporated. All that remains is the illusionary state he presumes to establish.
A Palestinian state will be a Hamas state, just as the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip twenty years ago led to Hamas taking control of it.
President Macron cannot provide security for Israel.
Let's hope he succeeds in doing so on the streets of Paris.
Israel's attempt to base its security on Palestinian promises to fight terror completely failed in the Oslo process.
Israel will no longer gamble on its security and its future.
🇸🇾☀️ - A senior Syrian government source told Al Ekhbariah Syria:
"We condemn the use of the events in Sweida and the coast to justify refusal to unite under the state's banner.
Any talk about refusing to hand over weapons and insisting on a military bloc is completely rejected. No military entity outside the national army can be considered legitimate".
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🇮🇱🇸🇾🇸🇾 - The mayor of Isfiya, a Druze-majority village in northern Israel:
"The Druze in Israel are ready to fight in Syria if the IDF cannot stop the attacks on their relatives".
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🇮🇱🇹🇷 - An Israeli official told the Jerusalem Post:
"Turkey's agreement to purchase 40 Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets isn't a game-changing threat to our Air Force. The Typhoon is a capable but not superior aircraft compared to our fighter jets.
But it's a clear and worrying signal that Turkey is accelerating its arms buildup in a way that could eventually challenge Israel's military edge in the region. The deal isn't an immediate threat, but still a headache for Israel".
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🇮🇱🇺🇦 - Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar and Ukrainian President Zelensky discussed strengthening Ukraine's air defense, and joint weapons production.
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🇮🇱🇾🇪🇾🇪 - Israel is preparing for a significant operation against the Houthis in Yemen.
"What we did in 12 minutes in Iran, we will know how to do in Yemen as well," a senior Israeli security official told.
- Israeli Channel 14 | @thewarreporterr