📢 🇮🇱 🇱🇧 "If diplomatic efforts fail, Israel will invade southern Lebanon and force Hezbollah beyond the Litani River."

📎 I24 NEWS

📸 🇺🇸 White House Urges Action After ‘Alarming’ Taylor Swift Deepfakes

🔶️ "The White House said sexually-explicit AI-generated images of pop star Taylor Swift were concerning and that Congress should consider legislation to address fake, abusive images that are proliferating online."

🔶️ “It is alarming,” Jean-Pierre told reporters. “So while social media companies make their own independent decisions about content management, we believe they have an important role to play in enforcing their own rules to prevent the spread of misinformation and non-consensual intimate imagery.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-26/white-house-urges-action-after-alarming-taylor-swift-deepfakes

https://archive.ph/OUXhD

💥 🇮🇱 🇱🇧 The IDF says it carried out a new wave of strikes on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon in response to attacks on northern Israel.

🔶️ "Fighter jets hit Hezbollah infrastructure in Blida, Marwahin, and Ayta ash-Shab, the IDF says."

📎 Emanuel Fabian

🇵🇸 ❌️ 🇮🇱 Battle for Gaza: Hamas returns

🔶️ "With the withdrawal of some Israeli forces from the northern contact line, life has begun to return to Gaza, and some municipal institutions have reopened. Since every civilian institution in the Gaza Strip is directly linked to Hamas, the Israeli media presented their reopening as "the return of Hamas administrative control."

🔶️ "Israeli forces have abandoned their offensive deep into the urban areas and are conducting regular strikes against targets in different parts of Gaza."

📎 Rybar Force

📢 🇮🇱 🇪🇬 Israel informs Egypt it will send troops to Gaza's Rafah - report

🔶️ "Israel informed Egypt on Saturday evening of its intention to send troops into Rafah and the Philadelphi Corridor, despite Egypt's firm opposition to such a decision, Maariv reported, citing Sky News Arabia."

🔶️ "Head of the State Information Services (SIS) Diaa Rashwan said earlier this week “It must be strictly emphasized that any Israeli move in this direction will lead to a serious threat to Egyptian-Israeli relations.”

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-783992

🗳 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 "The vast majority of voters say the immigration crisis at the southern border is getting worse and the government should take action to make it harder to get into the US illegally."

🔶️ "Even 50% of Democrats agree that America should toughen its border policies and more Democrats than not say the border crisis is worsening."

📎 AF Post

🇺🇸 🇲🇽 New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on X:

Q: What share of the growth in labor force since the eve of the pandemic is accounted for by immigrants?

A: All of it

📝 "This is a direct admission that young Americans wages are completely demolished by immigration, along with their ability to rent homes and start families - and all for what? So Paul Krugman and his ilk can have cheaper DoorDash and lawn care." - Indian Bronson

— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 BREAKING: An unnamed Arab country has provided credible intelligence to Hezbollah that Israel will launch a large scale military operation in Lebanon – LBCI

@Middle_East_Spectator

⚡️PM Netanyahu: The most important lesson from the Holocaust is that we will have to defend ourselves - by ourselves, no one in the world will do it for us, so I instructed the ministers of defense and finance to formulate a huge plan for military and defense industries.

— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 NEW: Thousands of soldiers belonging to the IDF's 'elite' Golani Brigade have arrived at the Northern front, after having left Gaza in the past few weeks; hundreds of tanks, APCs and IFVs have also been transfered to the border with Lebanon

@Middle_East_Spectator

⚡️🇪🇬🇵🇸 Egypt yet again reaffirms that it rejects Israel's request for its forces to enter the city of Rafah and the Philadelphia axis - stating that the Egyptian government has indeed received such a request on the 27th of January, and has rejected it.

It also detailed that there will be "severe consequences" for the violation of the Philadelphia axis and a proposed occupation of Rafah.

@themediterraneanman

⚡️🇪🇬🇵🇸 Egypt was "seriously considering" withdrawing its ambassador from Israel, according to informed sources, on the background of Israeli provocations - with the option still being available if need be.

According to Wall Street Journal, the Egyptian president has refused to answer "Several" phone calls from Netanyahu, not just one, but multiple, and that it has been several weeks since the President and the Israeli prime minister spoke to each other.

I am just going to quote the newspaper on the following.

"Israel has also accused Egypt of allowing Hamas to smuggle weapons through Gaza’s border with Egypt. “Egypt has not done a good job of checking what’s flowing into Gaza,” said a senior Israeli military official. Egyptian officials reject the accusation."

"According to Egyptian officials. Sisi and Egypt’s ruling generals were alarmed by talk by politicians and in Israeli media in November that Gaza’s population should be forcibly moved to Egypt, Egyptian officials said. Egyptian military intelligence found no evidence of a plan to expel the Palestinians, but the statements convinced Egypt’s government that there was such a secret Israeli program, according to Egyptian officials. Israel’s government didn’t respond to a request for comment."

@themediterraneanman