🇮🇱 🇵🇸 ⚡️ — Occupation forces storm the city of Nablus in the north of the West Bank, from the Hawara checkpoint.

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🇮🇱 🇵🇸 ⚡️ — Scenes during the arrival of 12 travelers returning to the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing, amid restrictions and investigation by the occupation forces.

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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 🇹🇷 🇮🇱 — NEW: US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to meet in Istanbul as US President Donald Trump warns "bad things" will happen if no deal is reached

🔴 US warships are sailing toward Iran while Witkoff and Araghchi meet; Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt expected to attend and Turkey seeks de‑escalation

🔴 Trump has demanded zero uranium enrichment, limits on Iran’s ballistic missile program and an end to support for regional proxies; Iranian officials say missiles are the bigger obstacle and Tehran wants sanctions lifted sooner

🔴 Witkoff is expected to visit Israel to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s military chief, with Mossad chief David Barnea also reported to take part

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🇵🇸 🚁 — Urgent: Helicopter gunfire reported east of Khan Younis.

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🇺🇸 🇮🇳 ⚡️ — NEW: President Donald Trump announces a trade deal with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that cuts tariffs on Indian goods to 18 percent.

🔴 Trump said on Truth Social India will remove trade barriers on U.S. products and stop buying Russian oil, and that an extra 25 percent penalty tariff imposed over Delhi’s purchases of Russian crude will be withdrawn.

🔴 Modi said he was “delighted” and thanked President Trump for reduced tariffs to 18%, while Trump said Modi pledged India would buy more than $500bn of American goods across energy, technology, agriculture and other sectors.

🔴 A White House official told Reuters the tariff cut combines removal of the 25% penalty layered onto an existing 25% “reciprocal” tariff, bringing the U.S. rate close to the 15% charged on the European Union and Japan; the Census Bureau reported a $53.5 billion U.S. goods trade deficit with India in the first 11 months of last year.

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🇮🇱 🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇷 ⚡️ — Yedioth Ahronoth: Israel believes that U.S. President Trump is actually working to exhaust political legitimacy through negotiations with Iran in order to build legitimacy for military action.

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🇮🇷 🇷🇺 ⚡️ — Reuters, citing the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister:

"The U.S. proposals to Iran are essentially final warnings."

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🇸🇴 🇹🇷 ⚡️ — Turkish F-16 fighter jets have been spotted in Somalia flying at low altitude over Mogadishu.

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🇵🇸 🇵🇸 ❗️ — Hamas: A global call for action in angry marches and pressure activities against the ongoing aggression and genocide against our people in the Gaza Strip.

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🇫🇷⚡️ — UPDATE: Following our reporting on French judicial warrants issued against Franco-Israeli activists for attempting to block humanitarian aid to Gaza, Betar Worldwide released a public statement in direct response to one of our posts.

In their statement, Betar framed the French arrest summons against the head of Betar France as evidence that “France stands with Palestine” and claimed that “standing with Zionism is an act against the State.”

Betar’s leadership further argued that labeling Zionist activism as criminal while tolerating jihadist rhetoric shows “how far gone France — and much of Europe — is,” and claimed similar patterns are unfolding in New York.

The organization reiterated its ideological roots in the Jabotinsky movement, defended the morality of Zionism and the Israeli state, and called on Zionists to relocate to Israel. Betar also noted that its U.S. branch voluntarily disbanded in New York and emphasized the movement’s historical ties to former Israeli prime ministers and current political leadership.

The statement was issued after our post detailing that the warrants are summons to appear before an investigating magistrate — not detention orders — and that complaints were filed over efforts to obstruct humanitarian aid entering Gaza.

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🇮🇱 🇮🇷 ⚡️ — NEW: Avi Berger, head of the Space Office at the Defense Ministry’s Directorate of Defense Research & Development (MAFAT), says Israel is quietly developing new space‑based capabilities to give the country an edge in the next war with Iran.

🔴 Berger said lessons from recent conflicts forced acceleration of orbital innovation and that "whatever was deployed in June won’t be enough next time."

🔴 Israeli satellite constellations now form the backbone of intelligence from Gaza to Iran, generating gigabytes of imagery, enabling real‑time retasking and "AI on steroids," and were a "full partner" in Operation Rising Lion, collecting tens of millions of square kilometers over 12 days.

🔴 Israel launches westward into retrograde orbits to avoid enemy territory, reducing payload capacity; the ministry aims for Israeli space capabilities to be present across the Middle East and calls for increased investment to maintain space superiority.

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🇦🇺 🇮🇷 ⚡️ — NEW: Australia is imposing targeted financial sanctions on 20 Iranian citizens and 3 entities, including senior officials and entities of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said.

🔴 Australia previously designated the IRGC as a state sponsor of terrorism on November 27, 2025 and has now sanctioned over 300 Iranian citizens and entities to date.

🔴 Australian statement says those sanctioned are complicit in oppressing the Iranian people, violently suppressing domestic protests, and threatening lives inside and outside Iran.

🔴 Unrest in Iran began on December 29 after a sharp fall in the rial; authorities reported 40 law enforcement deaths, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said armed terrorists appeared on January 8 and on January 23 gave a death toll from the riots of 3,117.

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🇺🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 ⚡️ — An official Hamas banner was raised at a Pro Palestine protest in Philadelphia, United States

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