🇮🇱 🇺🇸 🇵🇸 ⚡️ — Haaretz reports from a knowledgeable source: The United States is pressuring Israel to expand the operations of the Rafah crossing to include the transport of goods and aid, not just the passage of a few pedestrians.

🔴 The company that secured American aid centers for Gaza, GHF, is in talks to allow it to secure the Rafah crossing.

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🇮🇱 ❌ 🇵🇸 ❗️ — A Palestinian was martyred by Israeli occupation forces in the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 🇷🇺 ⚡️ — Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs:

"The escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran could set the Middle East ablaze. Iran is our ally, and we are acutely aware of the ongoing developments concerning them."

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🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇲🇽 🇻🇪 — BREAKING: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned of a humanitarian “collapse” in Cuba as the United States moved to block oil from reaching the island and threatened tariffs on nations that step in.

🔴 Severe fuel shortage is causing hours-long blackouts in Havana and driving up food and transport prices, the UN warned through spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

🔴 The US has claimed control of Venezuelan oil after a raid on Nicolas Maduro, President Donald Trump vowed to starve Cuba of oil and threatened tariffs on suppliers; Mexico supplies about 44% of Cuba’s oil and is seeking diplomatic agreements while preparing humanitarian aid.

🔴 Kpler data cited by the Financial Times says Cuba has about 15–20 days of oil at current demand; Cuba and the US report continued communications but no formal “dialogue.”

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🇮🇱 ❌ 🇵🇸 ⚠️ — Jerusalem: The occupation authorities have confiscated 280 dunams of land from four Palestinian towns to build a road.

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🇳🇬 🇧🇯 ⚡️ — NEW: Armed extremists killed at least 162 people in attacks on the villages of Woro and Nuku in Kwara state, Mohammed Omar Bio, a member of parliament representing the area, says

🔴 The attacks were carried out by the Lakurawa, an armed group affiliated with the Islamic State group; Amnesty International said gunmen killed over 170 people, razed homes and looted shops and had been sending "warning" letters to the villagers for more than five months

🔴 Ayodeji Emmanuel Babaomo, the Red Cross secretary in Kwara state, said teams cannot reach the remote communities — about eight hours from the state capital and near Nigeria's border with Benin; footage shows bodies, some with hands tied, and burning houses

🔴 State governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq described the attack as a "cowardly expression of frustration by terrorist cells"; separate violence this week killed at least 13 in Doma, Katsina, and Boko Haram extremists killed at least 36 elsewhere last week

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🇮🇱 ❌ 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 ⚡️ — Enemy media: Israel temporarily abandons victory in Gaza and does not attack the growing strength of Hamas in the region. Hamas is arming, growing stronger, and becoming wealthier while Israel watches from the sidelines, taking action only if a violation occurs.

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🚁 — WATCH: BREAKING - A police helicopter crashed during a shootout in Flagstaff, Arizona.

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🇨🇳 ⚡️ — Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

"We will not participate in negotiations on nuclear arms reduction."

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🇵🇸 ❗️ — A young man has died from injuries sustained months ago in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip.

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🇵🇸 💥 — The martyrdom of former prisoner Basel Al-Haimoni from Hebron, who was exiled to the Gaza Strip in the 2011 "Wafa al-Ahrar" exchange deal, following an airstrike that targeted him yesterday.

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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 — REPORT: Air defenses shot down 95 Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs over Russian regions overnight, the Defense Ministry said.

🔴 36 downed over the Krasnodar Region, 27 over the Rostov Region, 21 over the Azov Sea, eight over the Belgorod Region, two over Crimea, and one over the Volgograd Region.

🔴 Governor Yury Slyusar said the attack was repelled in Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog, Bataysk, Novoshakhtinsk and the Azov district; he later added Neklinovsky, Oktyabrsky, Kamensky, Krasnosulsky, Zernogradsky districts, Kamensk-Shakhtinsky and Shakhty.

🔴 In Bataysk a truck driver was injured by falling UAV debris and hospitalized in moderately severe condition; five cars and a warehouse were damaged there and a private house facade and windows were damaged in Novoshakhtinsk — information is being clarified.

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🇩🇪 ⚡️ — Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany has now transitioned to 24-hour operations amid increased deployments in the Middle East.

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🇮🇷 ⚡️ — The visible effects of the excavation debris in the new tunnels at the missile site in Qom, Iran, now extend over an area exceeding 40,000 square meters.

🔴 Iran has dug new extensive tunnels at a missile site near Qom, with excavation work continuing for long distances over recent months, surpassing what was expected or announced.

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🇮🇷 🚀 — A Khorramshahr missile was spotted during the latest visit of the commander of the Aerospace Force of the Revolutionary Guard this morning.

🔴 The design of the Iranian ballistic missile is likely derived from the North Korean "Hwasong-10" missile, which is capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

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🇺🇸 🇷🇺 🇸🇪 🇵🇱 — BREAKING: New START, the 14-year U.S.-Russia arms-control treaty, expired Feb. 5, prompting U.S. lawmakers and former officials to warn of renewed nuclear proliferation and an arms race.

🔴 Sen. Jack Reed said allies in Europe, Japan, and South Korea show renewed interest in “their own nuclear-deterrence systems,” and Timothy Morrison warned the risk of proliferation “cannot be understated.”

🔴 Rose Gottemoeller urged the White House to renew New START for one year; the treaty capped deployed strategic forces at 1,550 warheads and 700 delivery systems but did not cover unmanned submarines, hypersonics, new tactical/lower-yield weapons, or include China.

🔴 Sweden has opened preliminary talks with France and the U.K. on potential nuclear collaboration and Poland is exploring nuclear options amid strained U.S.-Europe ties, including President Trump’s threats to seize NATO allies’ territory.

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🇮🇷 ⚡️ — Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces:

We are ready for any potential action against our country.

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🇮🇷 🤝 🇮🇱❌🇮🇱⚡️ — Elimelech Shtern sentenced to 3 years in prison for communicating with Iran.

🔴 An Israeli spying for Iran has been sentenced to 3 years.

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🇵🇸 ❗️ — Settlers attack participants in a march in Khirbet Ibziq, east of Tubas, in the West Bank.

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🇺🇸 ⚡️ — Kamala Harris is once again running for the US presidency

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