— 🇺🇸/🇾🇪 NEW: 'The Houthis are getting scary. I'm an engineer and a physicist, and I've been around missiles my whole career, but what I've seen of what the Houthis have done in the last six months is something that I'm just shocked' — U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, Bill LaPlante

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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Al-Qassam Brigades target two Israeli tanks and a D9 military bulldozer west of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, achieving direct hits.

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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 Al-Qassam Brigades, with the assistance of Al-Quds Brigades, have announced several operations today:

– Eliminated three Israeli soldiers at point-blank range north of Beit Lahia city in the northern Gaza Strip.

– Sniped an Israeli soldier near the 'Abbas Kilani' roundabout north of Beit Lahia.

– Destroyed a 'Merkava 4' tank and a 'D9' bulldozer with an 'Al-Yassin 105' shell next to the Beit Lahia Development Association in northern Gaza.

– Targeted a 'Merkava 4' tank with a 'Shuath' explosive device west of Jabalia camp, north of Gaza.

– Destroyed an Israeli tank by detonating a powerful explosive on Al-Shimaa Street, north of Beit Lahia.

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— 🇫🇷/🇮🇱 WATCH: Israeli fans attempted to attack the French team supporters just 10 minutes into the football match yesterday, which ended in a 0-0 draw

France deployed 4,000 police officers and 1,600 security personnel to protect the Israelis, and the event was attended by Macron himself.

A pro-Palestinian protest was held outside the stadium, near the Front Populaire Métro station in St-Denis, and the Israeli national anthem was booed.

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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 WATCH: Saraya Al-Quds has released a new recorded message from Israeli hostage Alexander Trufanov, directed at the 'Shas' Haredi political party and its leader, Aryeh Deri.

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— 🇷🇺/🇩🇪 NEW: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz held a phone call with President Putin of Russia, for the first time in almost 3 years

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Real.

— 🇮🇷/🇱🇧/🇸🇾 NEW: Ali Larijani, special envoy of Iran's Supreme Leader, has carried a special message from Ayatollah Khamenei to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and Lebanon's Parliament Speaker, Nabih Berri

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— 🇩🇪 NEW: German police raided the home of a 64-year-old man who called Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck a 'professional idiot' on Twitter and posted 'antisemitic images and slogans.'

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇶 UPDATE: A federal jury held defense contractor 'CACI' legally responsible for contributing to detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, awarding $42 million to three Iraqi men who were held there two decades ago.

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