🇮🇱❌🇮🇱 — Smotrich resigns as finance minister and returns as a Knesset member in protest against Ben-Gvir's greed for an additional ministerial position.

➡️In addition to the the dispute over the terrorist MK (member of Kenesset) Zvi Sukkot, Ben-Gvir does not want to return him to the Knesset, which angered Smotrich.

🇪🇬❌🇮🇱❌🇸🇾🤝🇹🇷 — Israeli officials told several media outlets:

➡️Turkey is working to restrict Israeli freedom of action in Syrian airspace.

➡️Egypt is preventing international forces from inspecting the tunnel network on its border with Gaza.

🇮🇱❌🇪🇬 — According to "Israel hayom" Israel newspaper has resorted to the U.S to complain about Egypt's heavy military presence in Sinai:

➡️Tel Aviv says the Egyptian army has established military infrastructure near the border with Sinai in violation of the peace agreement

➡️Israel accuses Egypt of violating the security protocol of the Camp David Accords and affirms that it will not accept this.

➡️Israel demands that Egypt quickly dismantle military infrastructure in Sinai to preserve the status quo

🇮🇷✈️⁉️🇻🇪 — IRGC-affiliated (U.S. sanctioned) Fars Air Qeshm Boeing 747 cargo plane (reg EP-FAB) took off from Tehran landing in Caracas, Venezuela.

🇷🇺❌🇲🇩 — Moldovan Foreign Ministry expelled 3 Russian embassy employees from the country.

🇳🇪❌🇳🇬🇹🇩🇳🇬🇧🇯🇨🇲— Niger leaves MNJTF counter-terrorism coalition, deepens strains between the country and the sub-region.

➡️ Nigerien Defense Ministry, in a statement announced its' full retreat from the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) coalition, composed of Nigeria, Chad, Benin, Cameroon and formerly Niger.

➡️ The coalition has many bases around the Lake Chad basin area, the coalition was created to eradicate ISWAP and JAS presence in the region, the MNJTF base of Wulgo was attacked just a few days ago.

➡️ Niger's retreat from the coalition comes only a month before the yearly Operation Lake Sanity offensive against ISWAP and JAS is due to begin, meaning Niger will not participate.

➡️Niger will redeploy its' military assets to protect its oil installations against the growing IS-Sahel threat that infiltrated northwestern Nigeria, commonly referred to as 'Lakurawa'.

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🏳️❌🇲🇱🇲🇱 — FLA outlets claim to have shot down an Akinci drone of the Malian Armed Forces above their stronghold of Tinzawaten, near the border with Algeria.

➡️ Unclear what they have shot it down with, this is the first time such drone is shot down in the region.