— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 BREAKING: Israel carried out an airstrike in Noor Shams Camp in the West Bank; reports that the target was 'Abu Shujaa', the leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Tulkarm Brigade in the West Bank

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: The United States has completed 500 air deliveries of weapons to Israel since October, totaling over 50,000 tons of military equipment. Additionally, the Biden administration has sent 107 shipments of military supplies to Israel by sea.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Satellite imagery reviewed by Hebrew media Ynet indicates that Israeli forces have expanded the 'Netzarim' corridor in Gaza to include four large permanent military outposts.

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— 🇵🇸/🇷🇺 NEW: The Palestinian Authority's ambassador in Moscow stated that President Mahmoud Abbas had received an invitation from Vladimir Putin to attend the upcoming BRICS summit.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 Yesterday morning, Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir claimed a policy change now allows Jewish prayer at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and he proposed building a synagogue there.

Netanyahu's office has since distanced itself, asserting there would be 'no change to the status quo' at the Temple Mount.

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— 🇸🇾/🇹🇷 NEW: In an address to Syria's parliament, President Bashar al-Assad said attempts to restore relations with Turkey have so far brought no meaningful progress, despite the sincere mediation efforts of Russia, Iran, and Iraq.

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— 🇾🇪/🇬🇷 NEW: EU's Red Sea naval mission reports that the 'SOUNION' oil tanker has been on fire since August 23, after being attacked by Yemen's Ansarullah.

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— 🇫🇷 NEW: French President Emmanuel Macron says Pavel Durov's arrest is 'in no way a political decision' and France is 'deeply committed to freedom of expression and communication.'

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— 🇬🇧/🇮🇱 NEW: U.K. Attorney General Richard Hermer has refused to confirm ban on weapon sales to Israel, tells Foreign Office he will not take action until they say which arms could be used to break international law.

A Foreign Office spokesman said: “There is an ongoing review process to assess whether Israel is complying with international humanitarian law.”

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇷🇺 NEW: In his new book, former U.S. National Security Advisor Herbert McMaster writes that he found himself at odds with Donald Trump over the decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.

• According to McMaster, Trump was influenced by his major donor Sheldon Adelson, whose wife Miriam Adelson is one of Trump's largest donors in the 2024 election. Sheldon Adelson had told Trump that warnings about the embassy move destabilizing the Middle East were 'overblown.'

• Trump had wanted to announce the embassy move during his first foreign policy trip overseas in 2017, but McMaster argued against this, convincing Trump to delay the announcement by 6 months in order to try and extract more concessions from Israel.

• McMaster also recalls warning Netanyahu about his approach towards Putin in 2018, urging Netanyahu to 'reconsider his relations with Russia.'

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— 🇺🇸 NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he will fight against the crime of 'chemtrails', refering to the conspiracy theory that planes emit chemical trails to poison the air

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— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: An Israeli security official said amid fears of an Iranian retaliation against Israel that the country 'can launch a preemptive strike against Iran, but it’s a decision lawmakers have to make'

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— 🇷🇺/🇫🇷 NEW: 'The very serious French accusations against Telegram boss Pavel Durov should be viewed as an attempt to restrict freedom of communication unless backed up with serious evidence' – Kremlin

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— 🇺🇸 NEW: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said senior officials in the Biden administration pressured his social media company to censor COVID-19 content during the pandemic, adding that he would push back if this were to happen again

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