— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: The U.S. State Department has approved a potential sale of heavy-duty tank trailers and related equipment to Israel, valued at $164.6 million.

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— 🇮🇱 NEW: Haredi leader Yitzhak Goldknopf told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his United Torah Judaism party would have quit the coalition long ago over the end of military draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox men if it were not for the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip

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— 🇮🇱 NEW: Channel 12: Parties opposed to Netanyahu would win enough seats to form a new majority coalition if elections were held today, even without the support of the Arab parties

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— 🇮🇱/🇹🇷/🇺🇸 NEW: The body of a Turkish-American activist arrived at the airport in Istanbul, a week after she was shot in the head by the IDF in the West Bank

The Istanbul governor and other officials lined up in front of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi's coffin, wrapped in the red-and-white Turkish flag, with police in formal uniforms standing guard at each end

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸/🇿🇦/🇨🇱 NEW: Chile has asked the International Court of Justice in the Hague (ICJ) to allow it to join the South African case against Israel, accusing it of committing genocide in Gaza

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: Iran's Police Chief, General Ahmadreza Radan, announced that Iran will begin a 'mass exodus' of illegal immigrants

The general says 2 million illegal Afghans and other nationalities will be deported out of the country in the next few months.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: The U.S. Department of Defense is building aircraft facilities in Israel for American-made refueling tanker planes, according to recent contracting documents.

The project involves upgrades at a southern Israeli military base and is part of a nearly $1 billion contract awarded to Boeing in 2022 for four KC-46A 'Pegasus' tanker aircraft, to be delivered by the end of 2026. They will replace the repurposed Boeing 707s currently used by the Israeli Air Force for mid-air refueling.

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— ❗️🇮🇱/🇱🇧 BREAKING: The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will present a proposal to the Cabinet, adding a new official war objective; 'returning safety to the North, and the return of its citizens'

Clearly, the Israeli leadership now seems to be preparing for some sort of major offensive operations against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon in the short term.

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— 🇺🇸/🇷🇺 NEW: The U.S. State Department imposed new sanctions on Russian state media, accusing RT of collaborating with the military and fundraising for equipment for Russian soldiers in Ukraine, while stating that RT has been key to 'pro-Russia reactions' to the war globally.

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— 🇮🇱/🇺🇸/🇷🇺 NEW: An Israeli national, Gal Haimovich, pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to illegally shipping American aircraft parts and avionics to Russia, violating export controls.

He admitted to deceiving American companies about the goods' destination and directed over 160 shipments from March 2022 to May 2023 to companies in the Maldives and the UAE for delivery to Russia.

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