🇮🇱🤝🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — The Israeli helicopter delivered aid in Suweida, additionally there are unconfirmed reports of Hikmat Al-Hijri getting abroad on his way to Israel, or Druze casualties going to Israeli hospitals.

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Ukrainian warships carried out a night attack on a Russian drilling platform in the Black Sea - one fired a missile, the other launched drones.

🇵🇰🤝🇨🇳 — China is accelerating the delivery of J-35 fighter jets to Pakistan, with the first batch expected to arrive by the end of 2026.

➡️ This is in line with Pakistan's previous plans to purchase 40 of the aircraft, potentially making it the first export customer for China's fifth-generation fighter jets, as Pakistani pilots are already being trained in China.

🇸🇾❌🇮🇱 — Israel's old plan to create an Israeli friendly Druze state in Syria and Lebanon (which failed thanks to Druze leaders not betraying their nations):

💭After Israel occupied the Golan Heights in 1967 during the Six-Day War, the idea of creating a Druze state resurfaced.

📝Israel's plan envisioned a state that would stretch from the Jabal al-Druze region in southern Syria to parts of Mount Lebanon, particularly areas in the Shouf district, where there is a significant Druze presence.

🚫The main objective of the plan was, creating a buffer zone between itself and hostile Arab nations, particularly Syria and Lebanon, putting this state as cannon fodder, promoting sectarian division which would weaken the unified Arab resistance to Israel's existence and expansionist policies.

🇮🇱📞🇸🇾Israel reached out to Druze leaders in Syria and Lebanon, proposing the creation of a Druze state. these leaders pretended to entertain the idea to avoid retaliation but secretly worked against it.
Notable figures in the region, such as Sultan Pasha al-Atrash's descendants, are believed to have strongly rejected the plan.

📄The plan goes as follows:

➡️Israel would invade Southern parts of Syria, arm and train Druze militias, presenting them as independent resistance forces against Israeli occupation. These groups would be portrayed as fighting for autonomy rather than integration into broader Arab states like Syria.

➡️The militias, under Israel's influence, would stage a pseudo-resistance movement against Israeli forces to gain legitimacy and popular support in the region.

➡️After sufficient groundwork, Israel would withdraw its forces from Druze-majority areas, leaving the impression that these groups had "liberated" their territory independently.

➡️Once established, the Druze leadership—aligned with Israeli interests—would declare independence, creating a new state allied with Israel.

🇸🇾📞🇸🇾🇱🇧🇪🇬The Druze leaders Israel discussed with have reached out to Nasser, Lebanese and Syrian Druze leaders which made the plan fail, especially after Iraq and Syria sent reinforcements to the Israeli borders to be prepared for any similar scenarios.

✍️(it's worthy to note that Druze in the Galilee (previously Palestinian druze) serve in the IDF contrary to Syrian ones in the occupied golan heights who, to this, day, most of them reject to even get a citizenship which reflects the anti-zionist idealogy among most non Galilean Druze back then and to this day)

🇺🇸❌🎤📰 — Press freedom in the United States has fallen to "problematic" status, Axios reports.

➡️Reporters Without Borders now ranks press freedom in the United States as "problematic," its lowest ranking ever—on par with countries like Gambia and Sierra Leone.

🇮🇱❌🇸🇾🤝🇱🇧 — Hezbollah condemned the Israeli attacks against Syria last night.

📝Full statement:
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In the Name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

Statement Issued by Hezbollah

Hezbollah condemns the treacherous Zionist aggression that targeted Syria in a blatant assault on its territory. Israel hides behind flimsy pretexts and slogans to implement its expansionist and divisive projects, which aim to dismantle and divide Syria and sow discord among its people.

This Zionist aggression is a clear attempt to undermine the stability of the Syrian state and weaken its capabilities. It comes in the same context as its ongoing attacks on Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.

We, in Hezbollah, stress the need to preserve the unity and sovereignty of Syria as an independent state. We express our confidence that the honorable people of Syria will be a strong barrier against these suspicious schemes. We call on the international community, particularly Arab countries, to take urgent action to halt this aggression against the countries of the region and their stability, sovereignty, and security.

Saturday, May 3, 2025
Dhu al-Qi'dah 5, 1446 AH

🇸🇾❌🇵🇸🇵🇸 — Syrian security forces arrested Talal Naji, Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine(PFLP) - General Command, in Damascus.

🇸🇾🇱🇧❌🇮🇱🇸🇾 — Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt:

➡️Mowaffaq Tarif and Hikmat Al-Hijri want to distort Sultan Al-Atrash's history.

➡️We will not allow history to record that the Druze were agents and traitors to their homeland, serving Israel.

➡️Israel wants to drag the Druze into a war against Muslims, and we will not allow that to happen.

⚡️🇵🇸🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 - The AlQassam Brigades has published the continuation of the teased video, displaying the Israeli captive Maxim Harkin rescued and addressing the Israeli public after IDF Airstrikes twice on his location.
The fate of the other prisoner, Bar Kupershtein remains undisclosed/unknown.

The video was captioned:

And I will say what the real "psychological warfare" is? "The real psychological warfare is within me"
الوقت ينفد...
הזמן אוזל..
Time Is Running Out

⚡️🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 - Yesterday, the IDF has presented Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu its planned expanded offensive in Gaza during a security consultation.

➡️ The IDF's security cabinet is set to convene and take minister's vote on the approval of the military plans.

➡️ Such military expansion will require the call-up orders to tens of thousands of reservists tonight. Currently, 3 IDF Divisions are operating within Gaza.

➡️ The order comes following the refusal of the AlQassam Brigades to free the captives in a "surrender" deal, and the IDF is thus forced to launch a major offensive once again to militarily defeat the group.