❗️ The IDF announced a temporary ceasefire in northern Gaza for four hours, from 10am to 2pm local time, its spokesman Avichai Edri said.

❗️ Israel built the Al-Shifa hospital, which it claims has a Hamas headquarters burrowed deep underneath it, Israeli media have pointed out.

Commissioned by the Department of Public Works, the hospital complex was designed by Israeli architects led by Gershon Zippor and Benjamin Idelson during the British Mandate, and built in 1983.
The medical facility is described as having both an underground operating room and tunnel network beneath Building 2 of the hospital – all built by Israel.

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❗️IDF blew up warehouse of medicines and medical equipment in Shifa hospital - reports

❗️ Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Israel a "terrorist state"

❗️The United States perceives any initiative by Moscow to be hostile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated.

The top diplomat noted that the UN Security Council twice rejected Russia’s resolution calling for a ceasefire to the conflict in Gaza: “But essentially, in practical terms, Washington does not want to tie Israel’s hands.”

The minister pointed out that, despite the fact that Hezbollah exists in Lebanon and that there are pro-Palestinian movements in Iran, these countries will not participate in the conflict unless there are provocations.

The US seems to be ready only for a humanitarian pause in the Palestinian-Israeli escalation without additional commitments, Lavrov also said.

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 On the eve of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Biden told donors that China has serious issues, in an apparent reference to the country’s economy, where youth unemployment has skyrocketed, and a real estate crisis has alarmed investors.

“President Xi is another example of how reestablishing American leadership in the world is taking hold,” Biden said in San Francisco Tuesday, according to a pool report. “They’ve got real problems, folks.”

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning, commenting on the publication, said that there is no country in the world that does not have problems.

"The Communist Party's leadership and China's unique path of socialism with Chinese characteristics foster a sense of universal unity. We are confident that we will achieve enhanced development and obtain better prospects,” the spokeswoman said. Additionally, expressing sincere hope that the United States “can truly solve its issues and improve the quality of life for its citizens.”

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🤔 Secret Admirers?

American soldiers were spotted closely examining Russia’s Ka-52 helicopter at the Dubai Airshow-2023.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Hamas-Linked Gaza Government says IDF kills people trying to leave hospital, 30 people killed.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱 Pentagon discreetly increases ammo supplies for Israel

Israel has requested, according to an internal Defense Department list seen by Bloomberg, the following arms:

▪️Over 57,000 155 mm high explosive artillery shells

▪️More Hellfire laser-guided missiles for AH-64 Apache helicopter gunships

▪️20,000 M4A1 rifles

▪️400 120 mm mortars

▪️3,000 M141 hand-held bunker-buster munitions

▪️5,000 PVS-14 night vision devices

▪️75 army vehicles, specifically, the Army and Marine Corps’ new Joint Light Tactical Vehicle.

Despite public statements of ‘concern’ over the soaring death toll in Gaza, the Biden administration is upping its delivery of military aid to Israel.

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🇺🇸 American Jacob Chansley, the renowned ‘Shaman’ among those who stormed the Capitol in 2021, said in an interview with Sputnik that the US government did not investigate the role of the alleged “Ukrainian spy” in those events.

"The Ukrainian spy Sergei Dubinin that was there on that day with 1+1 media, a media organization tied to Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, who largely was responsible for the rise of Zelensky. So this Ukrainian oligarch sent Sergei Dubinin and 1+1 media there, and they are the ones actually that were there at the initial breach of the Capitol. And there's no investigation into that. There's no arrest being made there." Chansley said.

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🇷🇺 “You cannot buy security by refusing to create a Palestinian state and reducing the territory that was intended for a Palestinian state.”

Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with RT that this is exactly the position that Moscow is trying to convey to Israel.

"In the historical aspect, the creation of a Palestinian state is inevitable," Lavrov said in an interview.

He noted that Russia has never underestimated the importance of security for Israel.

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🇷🇺🪖 Key points of Russian MoD briefing on progress of special military op in Ukraine:

▪️Russian forces repelled two attacks by the Ukrainian Armed forces (UAF) and destroyed an ammunition depot of a special forces brigade in the Kupyansk direction;

▪️The UAF's losses amounted to up to 580 servicemen;

▪️Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 in the Dnepropetrovsk region;

▪️Russian troops repelled three UAF attacks in the Krasny Liman direction.

▪️Russian air defense systems intercepted seven HIMARS missiles and destroyed 30 UAVs;

▪️The Russian Armed Forces hit three Ukrainian control points in the DPR;

▪️The Russian Armed Forces repelled an attack by a Ukrainian assault group in the Zaporozhye direction.

▪️In the Kherson direction, a Ukrainian COBRA counter-battery radar station was destroyed for the first time.

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🇷🇺🇺🇳 “The problem with the [UN] Security Council is the overrepresentation of Western countries.”

Sergei Lavrov in an exclusive interview with RT noted that the UN needs to be reformed:

“As a result of multipolarity, many new actors are occupying key positions, and this must be reflected in the Security Council. There are many candidates that we support. Very promising candidates are India, Brazil, for example. The same can be said about Africa.”

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🍖 Elon Musk called Ukraine's President Zelensky a "butcher", while at the same time praising Ukraine's Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief, Valery Zaluzhny.

"I think that Zaluzhny is definitely someone who values the lives of his people. And he takes a sober look at what's going on. Zelensky has long-lived in his butcher’s reality, and that reality doesn't match the reality," Musk stated during an audio forum on his own social network X.

Earlier, analysts reported that the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valeriy Zaluzhny, could aspire to the post of President of Ukraine and remove Zelensky with the support of the West.

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“I think escalation has stages. So, already we're seeing intensified conflict on the border with Lebanon. We've seen that over the last couple of days, [Israel and Hezbollah] have been hitting each other much harder. We also see a rise in the strikes against the illegal American bases in Syria and American bases in Iraq, and those will become more intense if there's further escalation. Then you have Yemen. There are many things that can happen, it doesn't have to be in one stage,” Seyed Mohammad Marandi, University of Tehran professor, told the New Rules podcast.

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