🇮🇱 Representative of the IDF, Avichay Adraee, told Sputnik about the current situation and the army’s plans:

▪️Israel has imposed a full blockade of the Gaza Strip, and the issue of humanitarian aid is being resolved at the political level in Israel and between states.

▪️Citizens of 42 countries were killed or kidnapped during the Hamas attack; the release of hostages by military means is not excluded.

▪️Israel is ready to move to a ground operation in Gaza at a time of its choosing and will continue until its objectives are achieved.

▪️Israel does not have information about Iran’s participation in the Hamas operation, but there is “evidence” of Tehran’s support for the movement.

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❗️Key points of the Russian MoD briefing on the progress of special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️The Russian Armed Forces repelled five attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) in the Kupyansk direction.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces repelled 10 attacks by the UAF in the Krasny Liman direction; Ukrainian forces lost up to 100 servicemen.

▪️ UAF losses in the Donetsk direction amounted to up to 260 servicemen.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed ammunition and fuel warehouses at an airfield in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

▪️ UAF losses in the South Donetsk direction amounted to up to 140 servicemen.

▪️The Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Su-24 aircraft near Odessa.

▪️Russian air defense systems shot down an Su-24 jet, two MiG-29 fighters, and an Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force.

▪️Russian air defense systems intercepted four HARM missiles, two Neptune cruise missiles, and destroyed 23 UAVs.

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🇮🇹🇵🇸 A demonstration in support of Palestine took place in the center of Rome. About a thousand people came to the demonstration, police officers on duty told Sputnik.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺 Fragments of an American HIMARS MLRS rocket fell in the Budennovsky district of Donetsk.

According to the Sputnik correspondent, most of the electronics were not damaged.

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🇺🇸🇵🇸 CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward was accused of lying and hiding the truth about the deaths of children in the Gaza Strip

A video, purportedly from the Rafah checkpoint on Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip, shows a local woman emotionally accusing the journalist of the American channel's failure to disclose the number of Palestinian children killed in the escalating conflict.

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🇵🇱🇵🇸 A demonstration in support of Palestine took place in the Polish capital, Warsaw.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Latest updates on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict:

▪️Representative of the IDF: Israel has imposed a full blockade of the Gaza Strip, and the issue of humanitarian aid is being resolved at the political level in Israel and between states.

▪️Representative of the IDF: Israel is ready to move to a ground operation in Gaza at a time of its choosing and will continue until its objectives are achieved.

▪️The death toll in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israeli strikes has risen to 4,385, with 1,756 of them children, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

▪️A demonstration in support of Palestine took place in the center of Rome. About a thousand people came to the demonstration, police officers on duty told Sputnik.

▪️A demonstration in support of Palestine took place in the Polish capital, Warsaw.

▪️Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned against the forced displacement of the Palestinian people from the Gaza Strip.

▪️Saudi Arabia calls on the international community to obligate Israel to respect international law, Saudi FM stated.

▪️Turkish foreign minister: the Middle Eastern crisis may have global consequences. Turkey calls for a ceasefire.

▪️Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: We won’t leave, we will remain on our land.

▪️Israeli security forces have arrested more than 1,000 Palestinians since the conflict began to escalate, the Committee for Palestinian Prisoners reports.

▪️Humanitarian aid has started entering Gaza from Egypt via the Rafah crossing, Arab media reported.

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🇺🇸 Businessman and GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy has attacked President Joe Biden for attempting to link the Ukrainian and Israeli crises, and for talking about sending over one hundred billion additional dollars in taxpayer money abroad as the US digs itself further and further into debt.

“I think it’s a mistake to bundle the Israel discussion with the Ukraine discussion,” Ramaswamy said in a TV interview. “It’s a gambit to avoid debate on the merits on either one.”

“The elephant in the room…is that all of this spending is against the backdrop of being $33 trillion in the hole of national debt,” the candidate said. “Every one of those dollars, that $100 billion, you better make the case by cutting something here at home,” Ramaswamy suggested.

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🇺🇸 Biden said that mankind needs a new world order. The old one - the post-war one - had served "damn well" for half a century, but it "sort of run out of steam." Americans can unite the international community "in ways that it never has been" if they are "bold enough and have enough confidence," their president said at a campaign event.

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The Ukrainian military is facing a serious personnel shortage, with reports of efforts to recruit underage students from schools and colleges, Yan Gagin, advisor to the head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), told Sputnik in an exclusive statement.

‘"Despite the conscription crisis, they are now starting to recruit young people. There is a law that allows voluntary recruitment from the age of 16. However, there is information that military recruiters are visiting educational institutions such as schools, technical colleges, and high schools where minors are studying and encouraging them to go to the front lines and take part in the conflict," Gagin revealed.

In addition, Gagin did not rule out the possibility of Ukraine passing a law on women's mobilization.

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The Israeli army said it intercepted a missile launched towards its drone near the border with Lebanon and struck the launch site. IDF fighter jets also struck Hezbollah military infrastructure and surveillance equipment, the army claimed.

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What missiles does Iron Dome use?

With thousands of rockets having rained down on Israel, the country has relied on the Iron Dome missile defense system - crucial military equipment in its arsenal - to save countless civilian lives over various conflicts in the last decade. How effective is the missile it deploys in intercepting and neutralizing incoming rockets?

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Participants of the Cairo Summit for Peace reached an agreement on the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, Al Arabiya broadcaster reported on Saturday, citing Egyptian Presidential spokesman Ahmed Fahmy.

Earlier on Saturday, the Sky News Arabia broadcaster reported that participants of the summit would not adopt a final statement due to disagreements between the Arab and European delegations over the wording "Israel's right to self-defense" and the issue of condemning Palestinian movement Hamas.

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