🇩🇪❌🇾🇪🤝🇨🇳— China has reportedly targeted a German spy plane flying over the Red Sea as part of an intelligence mission to spy on the movements of the Houthis under the pretext of "protecting navigation" within the framework of the European ASPIDES operation.

➡️China used a powerful laser beam that temporarily "blinded" the plane's equipment.

➡️The German Foreign Ministry announced that it had summoned the Chinese ambassador to protest and described China's action as unacceptable and that it threatened the lives of the German plane's crew.

⚡️🇮🇱❌🇵🇸🇵🇸 - The IDF has has advanced and tightened its ongoing siege on northern Gaza's "Beit Hanoun", following an AlQassam Brigades ambush that resulted in the death of at least 5 IDF soldiers, and the destruction of a number of vehicles on the 7th of July.

The IDF's Spokesman Effie Defrin stated in a press conference:

» Beit Hanoun is a fortified area, where dozens of terrorists still remain. There are still many underground tunnels that we must demolish.

» We will continue to attack and clear the area to remove the threat to the residents of the western Negev.

🔗 Image attached displays an illustration of approximate IDF advancement [light blue].

📝 Reminder:
The IDF had announced the dismantling of the "Beit Hanoun" Battalion on December, 2023, and alleged the assassination of Hussein Fayyed (Abu Hamza), the commander of the battalion on the 23rd of May, 2024, which was disproven following the 2025 January ceasefire.

🇮🇱🤝🇺🇸 — Netanyahu arrives at White House to meet with Trump for the second day in a row.

🇮🇱🤝🇺🇸 — Israel signed an agreement with the US to cooperate in AI.

🇹🇷❌🇹🇷 — Background to the clashes:

➡️It is well known that the majority of Kurds are disillusioned and have deep rooted hatred for the KDP (Peshmerga's political party) and Peshmerga forces, who they regard as unjust and secular, which is not in line with the interests of many Kurds.

➡️The tribal forces of Khurshid Harki (of the Harki tribe) have begun to ambush and assault Peshmerga forces, which has potential to spiral into either an insurgency or a full civil war. Checkpoints have been set up on main roads, preventing movement, and Harki's forces seem to be successful in killing an unknown number of Peshmerga.

🇮🇱🇺🇸 — Trump gets upset when a reported asked him about Epstein saying “it's unbelievable people are still asking questions about this guy.”

🇮🇱🤝🇺🇸 — Trump and Netanyahu meeting has ended after lasting 90 minutes, no statements were made.

🇮🇱🇺🇸🇵🇸 — According to Yedioth Ahronoth Israeli news outlet Netanyahu has left the meeting angry due to Trump's pressure to end the war on Gaza.

⬛🇸🇴❌🇺🇸🇹🇷🇦🇪🇸🇴— Al-Shabaab targeted a meeting of Western instructors at the Jalle Siyaad military camp in Mogadishu with a suicide bomber.

➡️This morning a large explosion shook the Jalle Siyaad military instruction camp after a suspected SVBIED was detonated inside, casualties are currently unclear.

#BREAKING
⬛🇸🇴❌🇪🇺🇸🇴 — Al-Shabaab suicide bomber targeted the EUTM (European Union Training Mission in Somalia) instructors in the Jalle Siyaad camp in Mogadishu.