— 🇮🇱 NEW: Senior member of Israel's negotiating team describes 'a chasm' between Netanyahu and top defense officials over the hostage deal; TV report quotes heated exchange in which PM accused them of being too 'soft'

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: IDF says it found dozens of tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border, one nearly three meters high

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Israeli forces have bombed tents housing displaced Palestinians in the yard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, killing at least three and wounding 18 others. The attack came hours after a strike on a Gaza City school-turned-shelter killed 17 people

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— 🇮🇹/🇱🇧 NEW: Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has asked Italian tourists not to go to Lebanon and for those already in the country to leave on commercial flights as soon as possible

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— 🇮🇷/🇫🇷 NEW: France's Foreign Ministry has urged French citizens in Iran to leave the country, given the danger of military escalation in the Middle East

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— 🇾🇪 NEW: Yemen's Ansarullah announced two new operations; downing an American MQ-9 'Reaper' drone, and targeting the ship 'Groton' with ballistic missiles, achieving direct hits

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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Al-Qassam Brigades publish footage of detonating a tunnel entrance on IDF troops, and sniping a soldier in Rafah

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— 🇮🇶/🇺🇸 NEW: Two Georgia National Guard soldiers died Wednesday in Iraq in what the U.S. Army says were unrelated non-combat deaths

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— 🇮🇷/🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: CENTCOM commander Michael Kurilla is expected to visit Israel on Monday to discuss an expected Iranian retaliatory attack with Israeli officials

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: Residents of the Greater Tel Aviv area reported on Sunday heavy disruptions to location-based apps – a move most likely initiated by Israel as it prepares for Hezbollah and Iranian strikes

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— 🇮🇱 NEW: El Al cancels flight operated by non-Israeli crew amid fears of attack by Hezbollah, Iran – Haaretz

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— 🇮🇷/🇯🇴 NEW: Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi will visit Iran to discuss escalations in the region

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— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: An underground bunker in Jerusalem where senior Israeli leaders can remain for an extended period during a war has been prepared – Walla

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— 🇾🇪 NEW: Yemen's Ansarullah publish scenes of the MQ-9 'Reaper' they recently shot down

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— 🇬🇧/🇨🇦/🇱🇧 BREAKING: The United Kingdom and Canada have began the evacuation of non-essential embassy staff and their families from Beirut, Lebanon

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: Iran will likely carry out an attack substantially more severe than on April 13, and it will cross Israel's 'red lines'; Iran seeks to restore deterrence, even if this causes an all-out war – Al Mayadeen

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To those asking why it's taking long:

You don't launch a large scale attack on a nuclear power without making every possible preparation in case of a resulting all-out war.

Especially if your enemy (Israel) and its allies (the world) are substantially stronger than you in terms of military might.

— 🇮🇷 NEW: Iran has rejected the efforts of the U.S. and Arab diplomats to show 'restraint' in its response to the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran – Wall Street Journal

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Jordan's Foreign Minister looks shell shocked after visiting Iran.

— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Al-Qassam Brigades target Israeli armored vehicles. Helicopters can be seen at the end, evacuating the casualties.

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