🇮🇱 ⚡️ — Hebrew newspaper Kol Ha'ir reports that the occupation government has approved a plan to build five Jewish towns in the center and east of the Negev, with a budget of up to 2.2 billion shekels, aiming to "curb Bedouin expansion".

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🇸🇾 🇷🇺 ⚡️ — Footage shows Russian units withdrawing from the military base in Qamishli city, Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria.

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🇵🇸 ❗️ — After 4,208 days, there are no hostages in Gaza

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🇦🇱🇮🇱 ⚡️ — Prime Minister in the Israeli Knesset:

"Mr. Netanyahu, if the Mossad hasn't informed you yet, let me tell you, my knees are shaking. Speaking here is like taking a test in front of the world's best orators."

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🇦🇱🇵🇸 🇵🇸 ⚡️ — The Albanian Prime Minister:

I hope that some of Hamas's tunnels where hostages were killed, raped, and tortured will be preserved as a testimony during the permanent peace between the 'two future states'.

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🇮🇳🇮🇱⚡️ — NEW: Defence Acquisition Council cleared potential acquisition of six second‑hand Boeing 767s to be converted into tankers by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).

🔴 Deal valued at about $1 billion; a cost negotiation committee was set up on Jan. 1 and final price will go to the Cabinet Committee on Security before contract signing.

🔴 IAI will build refuelling modules in India and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) will receive work under offsets; first tanker delivery sought from 2030.

🔴 Choice to convert older aircraft follows nearly 20 years of cancelled tenders and strains on the Indian Air Force’s Il-78MKI fleet; India last year leased a KC-135 from Metrea flown by American crews.

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🇮🇶 🇮🇷 🇺🇸⚡️ — REPORT: Abu Hussein al‑Hamidawi, leader of Kataib Hezbollah, warned of “total war” if Iran is attacked and called fighters to prepare.

🔴 He said “forces of darkness” are gathering to subjugate Iran, warned war against the Republic “will not be a walk in the park” and vowed lethal response.

🔴 Al‑Hamidawi urged the “axis” to support Iran “in whatever way they can,” contrasting last year’s lack of regional aid after strikes on Iran.

🔴 The warning comes as the United States moves military assets, including a carrier strike group, to the Middle East and Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged Iraqi PM Mohammed Shia al‑Sudani to keep distance from Iran.

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🇱🇧🇮🇱 — NEW: The Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants filed a complaint to the United Nations accusing Israel of daily violations of the November 2024 ceasefire and breaches of UN Security Council Resolution 1701.

🔴 Complaint includes three tables listing 542, 691 and 803 violations in October, November and December 2025 respectively, totalling 2,036 breaches; calls on the Security Council to compel Israel to completely withdraw beyond the internationally recognised borders, end violations and release Lebanese prisoners.

🔴 Filed a day after Israeli air strikes that killed at least two people; the UN previously put civilian deaths from Israeli attacks in Lebanon at at least 127.

🔴 Beirut says Israel occupies five points inside Lebanese territory, is holding more than a dozen Lebanese prisoners, and Israeli forces have repeatedly opened fire at UNIFIL peacekeepers.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇸🇪🇬⚡️ — NEW: Israel's military says the remains of police officer Ran Gvili, the last Israeli hostage held in Gaza, have been recovered.

🔴 Mr Gvili's corpse will be returned for burial, the military said.

🔴 Israel had said Gaza's Rafah crossing with Egypt would be opened once his remains were returned.

🔴 Gvili was killed at Kibbutz Alumim during Hamas' attack on 7 October 2023; Israel launched a "large-scale operation" in Gaza to locate his body after US-brokered ceasefire pressure.

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🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡️ — NEW: Russia is withdrawing forces from Qamishli airport in northeastern Syria as government forces under President Ahmed al-Sharaa advance against Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.

🔴 Russia has maintained a presence at Qamishli airport since 2019; some troops and heavy weapons are being moved to Hmeimim air base or returned to Russia.

🔴 A fragile ceasefire was extended 15 days after Damascus seized swathes of northern and eastern Syria from the Syrian Democratic Forces this month.

🔴 Reuters saw Russian flags and two Russian-marked planes at Qamishli; Russia’s defence ministry gave no immediate comment.

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🇾🇪🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡️ — NEW: Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels threaten new attacks on ships in the Red Sea as the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln heads toward Iran and Iraq’s Kataeb Hezbollah calls on allies to prepare to defend Iran.

🔴 The Houthis published a short video with previously released images of a ship on fire and the caption “Soon,” after a campaign that has seen over 100 ships attacked.

🔴 The USS Abraham Lincoln and guided missile destroyers are moving toward the region — President Donald Trump said the ships were moved “just in case” he decides to take action against Iran.

🔴 Kataeb Hezbollah leader Abu Hussein al‑Hamidawi urged Iran’s “axis of resistance” to prepare for a broad conflict, including calls to prepare for the possible declaration of “jihad,” and Gen. Reza Talaei‑Nik warned any attack on Iran would be met with a more painful response.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️ — NEW: The USS Abraham Lincoln and several guided‑missile destroyers have entered the Middle East region under U.S. Central Command, expanding President Donald Trump's capabilities vis‑à‑vis Iran.

🔴 Warships began deploying from the Asia‑Pacific earlier this month amid tensions after Iran's domestic crackdown on protests.

🔴 The Pentagon is also moving fighter jets and air‑defense systems and will run an exercise "to demonstrate the ability to deploy, disperse, and sustain combat airpower."

🔴 A senior Iranian official warned Tehran would treat any attack as an "all‑out‑war," and the United Arab Emirates said it will not allow its airspace, territory or territorial waters to be used for hostile actions against Iran.

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🇵🇸 🟢 ⚡️ — The fields of jihad have witnessed their precedence, and they have made their mark in every aspect. They pledged to God that the banner would not fall and the land would not be lost. They resisted the occupier, convinced that faith and truth are stronger than any weapon, and that Al-Aqsa and Palestine are worth every sacrifice. They departed physically, but their impact remains, and their names are etched in the memory of the free. They are the moons of the flood.

🔴 Military media of Al-Qassam Brigades

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🇮🇱 ❗️ — U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on the hostage pin: "I never want to see it again."

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🇮🇱🇬🇧🇫🇷 — NEW: Israeli Elbit Systems has completed the full acquisition of drone maker UAV Tactical Systems (UTACS) in the U.K. and will produce models for customers across Europe at the Leicester plant.

🔴 UTACS was founded as a joint venture between Thales Group and Elbit and built the Watchkeeper, which became fully operational in late 2018.

🔴 Elbit’s takeover follows the British government’s decision to gradually phase Watchkeepers out of service.

🔴 Elbit did not disclose the buyout amount; company says purchase came after receiving all required approvals.

🔴 Elbit’s recent sales include Hermes 900 aircraft to Singapore and it markets SkyStriker loitering munitions plus Skylark and Magni‑X reconnaissance drones.

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🇮🇱🇺🇸⚡️ — NEW: Elbit Systems was awarded a $228 million contract to supply its Iron Fist active protection system to General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GD-OTS) for installation on Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs).

🔴 The award is a follow-up/extension of prior GD-OTS agreements (initial 24‑month $37m May 2024 award, later a $127m 34‑month extension).

🔴 Iron Fist provides 360-degree protection against Anti‑Tank Rockets (ATR), Anti‑Tank Guided Missiles (ATGM), Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), loitering munitions and Kinetic‑Energy (APFSDS) ammunition.

🔴 Elbit says the system’s low volume/weight/power and near‑zero residual penetration enable integration on lighter vehicles as well as armored platforms.

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🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇶 🇮🇷 ⚡️ — The social media page for the US Embassy in Baghdad is now threatening Iran

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🇮🇹🇪🇺🇮🇷⚡️ — NEW: Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani will ask EU partners to place Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) on the EU's terrorist register, he said.

🔴 Tajani said Rome is shifting position after a bloody Iranian crackdown on street protests that reportedly killed thousands and "requires a clear response."

🔴 He will raise the proposal Thursday at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels and seek inclusion of the Revolutionary Guards plus individual sanctions against "those responsible for these heinous acts."

🔴 The IRGC is already under the EU's human rights sanctions regime; diplomats say France could block a terrorist listing and, if it objects, the move would fail.

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🇸🇾 ⚡️ — The Syrian Arab Army has taken control of the Majnoon well in the village of Ali Agha in eastern Qamishli, one of the most prominent oil wells in Hasakah.

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❗️ — In his latest message to his fiancée, the prisoner leader Hassan Salameh states: "I don't know if we have become like the people of the cave or the people of the graves?! We have all turned into skeletons!"

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🇵🇸 ⚡️ — Palestinian Authority security forces release young man Adel Abu Al-Nahl from Jenin camp after a year of detention

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