🇵🇱🇫🇷 Poland will send a military contingent to provide security at the Olympic Games in Paris. This was reported by the Polish Bureau of National Security.

There will be 20 soldiers, including handlers with service dogs. The Polish military in Paris will perform the tasks of “support in the protection of infrastructure” and “advising in anti-terrorism activities.”

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Confirmed in action: The head of Ukrenergo Kudrytsky lost the light when he said that “the energy system copes with challenges”

The Ukrainian energy system successfully copes with all challenges

- he said and disappeared.

Here the team reports a loss of communication with Vladimir. Perhaps due to another power outage. These are the conditions you have to work in

- the host stated.

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🇮🇱⚔🇵🇸Israel-Gaza Conflict: June 19-20 (Recap)

1️⃣ Reuters news agency report that at least nine people were killed when Israeli bombs struck a group of people waiting for humanitarian aid near the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) border crossing in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

2️⃣ The UN Human Rights Office has published an assessment on “six emblematic attacks” committed by Israeli forces in Gaza in 2023 that raises “serious concerns under the laws of war”.

3️⃣ Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has warned that “no place” in Israel would be spared from Hezbollah’s weapons in case of a full-blown war after Israel said operational plans for a Lebanon offensive had been approved. Nasrallah added that a wider war would have regional implications and the Lebanese armed group would attack other countries in the region, including Cyprus if it continued to allow Israel to use its airports and bases for military exercises.

4️⃣ The UN Relief and Works Agency now estimates 65,000 people remain in Rafah, the UN secretary-general’s deputy spokesperson has said.

5️⃣ An Israeli army spokesman has said Hamas cannot be defeated as an ideology, prompting the government to quickly re-assert that it remains committed to the Palestinian group’s destruction.

6️⃣ Israeli political analyst Akiva Eldar said the statement by Israel’s army spokesman Daniel Hagari that “Hamas is an ideology” and “we cannot eliminate an ideology” has undermined Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “doctrine” that Hamas could be defeated “once and for all”.

At least 37,396 people including more than 15,694 children, have been killed and over 85,523 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll from the October 7 attack in Israel stands at 1,139.

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