🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Violent clashes have erupted between Hezbollah forces and IDF soldiers in Bint Jbeil, Shama, and Al-Khiam in southern Lebanon.

The IDF has sieged Bint Jbeil from all sides but is struggling to take control of the town.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "The United States to Blockade Ships Entering or Exiting Iranian Ports on April 13 at 10:00 A.M. ET. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT" - President Trump via Truth Social.

The American blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, in addition to the Iranian blockade, will begin in seven and a half hours.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- “No port in the Persian Gulf or Gulf of Oman will be safe if our ports are threatened.” - Iran’s Central Military Command.

🇺🇸🇻🇦⚡️- “I am not afraid of the Trump administration.” - Pope Leo XIV.

🇻🇦🇩🇿⚡️- Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Algeria, marking the first time a Pope visits the country.

🇺🇸✝️⚡️- “I am disheartened that the President chose to write such disparaging words about the Holy Father. Pope Leo is not his rival; nor is the Pope a politician. He is the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel and for the care of souls.” - Paul Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

🇵🇱🇭🇺⚡- "Hungary, Poland, Europe back together!

Glorious victory, dear friends!

Russians go home," - Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland.

🇬🇧🇫🇷🇮🇷⚡️- "The ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz is deeply damaging. Getting global shipping moving is vital to ease cost of living pressures.

The UK has convened more than 40 nations who share our aim to restore freedom of navigation.

This week the UK and France will co-host a summit to advance work on a coordinated, independent, multinational plan to safeguard international shipping when the conflict ends." - Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ - The third US Navy aircraft carrier, the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) has crossed the Strait of Gibraltar.

It will roughly take another 3-5 days for the carrier to arrive in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, meaning it will arrive in the area of operations before the end of the US-Iranian ceasefire.

As stated in our previous post, the new positions of the 3 active carrier groups is the USS George H.W. Bush in the western Mediterranean, the USS Gerald R. Ford in the eastern Mediterranean after its repairs and resupply, and the USS Abraham Lincoln operating in the Arabian Sea.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- Pakistani, Egyptian, and Turkish mediators will continue to speak with American and Iranian officials to bring about a resolute ceasefire in the coming days, according to Axios.

Yesterday, the Turkish and Egyptian foreign ministers both called the Pakistani foreign minister, and then Aragachi and Witkoff, respectively.

🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡️- Rosatom announces most of the Russian workers at Bushehr's nuclear plant in Iran have been evacuated.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah rocket alerts in northern Israel.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media report an impact with light Injuries in Nahariyya, northern Israel.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hostile drone intrusion in northern Israel.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah rocket alerts in northern Israel.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇻🇦⚡️- "His Holiness Pope Louis XIV (@Pontifex), I condemn the insult to Your Excellency on behalf of the great nation of Iran, and declare that the desecration of Jesus, the prophet of peace and brotherhood, is not acceptable to any free person. I wish you glory by Allah." - Masoud Pezeshkian on X.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- A post from the official Israel X account.

🇪🇸⚡️- The wife of the current Spanish Prime Minister, Begoña Gómez, has been charged with influence peddling and private-sector corruption.

She is accused of using her position as the Prime Minister's wife to secure sponsors for a university master's degree course that she ran.

🇩🇿⚡- BREAKING: Twin suicide attacks in Bilda, southwest Algiers, targeting the Algerian military positions.

The attacks coincide with the Pope's visit to Algeria.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- UKMTO issues an advisory warning that all Iranian ports and access to the country's coast has been restricted.

"Neutral vessels within Iranian ports have been granted a limited grace period to depart," - UKMTO.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The US Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has now begun.

"The blockade will be enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas, including all Iranian ports on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. CENTCOM forces will not impede freedom of navigation for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports." - U.S. Central Command.