🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Scenes from Syria's 42nd Division's al-Basateen airbase near Palmyra city, Syria, where casualties are reported.

🇹🇷⚡- "Why is everyone criticizing the government? We are the ones who started the judicial process. How did the incident get to the government. Look at those who went and testified, is there a single [Erdogan's] AK Party member? No," - Erkan Cakir, former CHP Party member.

🇹🇷🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "We condemn the destruction of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital by Israel," - Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇹🇷⚡- Scenes from Ankara, Turkey, where pro-Imamoglu protesters clash with security forces.

🇹🇷⚡- Sarachane district of Istanbul, Turkey, right now.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Columbia University has capitulated to Trump Administration demands in order to secure federal funding. The major concessions are as follows.

> Columbia will ban masks on campus during protests
> The University will hire 36 more on campus police officers
> The Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Departments will be placed under Academic Receivership for 5 years, meaning the departments will be run by an outside group while the existing staff will be put under their control.
>The University will adopt a "position of institutional neutrality"
>The University will hire more Jewish academics for its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies in order to counter balance pro-Palestinian staff

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in Metula, northern Israel, along the border with Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Possibly a false alarm. Hezbollah has not fired into northern Israel in months.

If it is a confirmed Hezbollah projectile, this could be a turning point for the ongoing (although tenuous) ceasefire.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Sirens have not stopped in Metula.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Explosions heard in Metula. Unknown if interceptions or impacts.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hebrew channels report three Iron Dome interceptions.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Scenes from Metula, northern Israel.

Explosions - and possibly the launch of Iron Dome interceptors - are heard in the video.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hebrew channels are now stating the interceptors were launched to confront a Hezbollah drone or missile attack.

The IDF has yet to make a statement on the red alert activation.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The Upper Galilee Regional Council, which shares security administration with Metula, states that explosions were reported, but no casualties are confirmed at this time.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: The sirens in Metula were activated as a result of a projectile launch from southern Lebanon. The siren was NOT a false alarm.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The IDF confirms the interception of 3 Hezbollah missiles above Metula.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - First Hezbollah missile attack since November 2024.