🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈📞🇮🇱 — Yair Lapid, Israeli opposition leader after his first meeting with Netanyahu since the war began:

➡️I just came out of a security briefing with Netanyahu, and what I can say is that a prisoner swap is possible. We are just one cabinet decision away from completing the deal.

➡️I reminded the Prime Minister that he has no political problem, and I will give him a full political safety net for the prisoner deal.

🇵🇰🇮🇳 — India and Pakistan have agreed to extend the ceasefire until May 18.

🇮🇱🤝🇲🇦 — Two Israeli soldiers sustained "moderate injuries" during military training in Morocco.

🇾🇪❌🇺🇸 — The director of the US Missile Defense Agency, General Heath Collins, announced the use of dozens of SM-3 missiles to intercept Yemeni ballistic missiles targeting Israel.

➡️The SM-3, an expensive missile ($27 million) with a very low production rate, which is supposed to provide defensive protection against nuclear missiles, is being spent on a missile with large quantities of explosives and relatively low accuracy.

➡️While it is true that a defensive missile is worth the money for the purpose it serves, it is not cost-effective to spend such money to guarantee a mid-course interception.

➡️The SM-3 production rate appears to be 12 missiles per year.

🇺🇸🤝🇦🇪 — White House press secretary says UAE has shut down the mosque for Trump's special describing it as a historical moment.

🇹🇷🇸🇾🇺🇸 — Syrian and Turkish foreign ministers met with US Secretary of State Rubio in Turkiye.

🇷🇺🇲🇱❌🇲🇱 — 22+ civilians kidnapped by Wagner mercenaries and Malian soldiers in Diafarabe, Mali

➡️ On the 12th May, at least 22 civilian men of various age were randomly arrested from the weekly market of the city, since then the families of the kidnapped have marched in protest of the arbitrary arrests.

➡️ Previous similar forced disappearances have almost always ended in the death of the arrested people, and after 3 days of demanding answers, the Malian government has not commented on the incident.

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🇺🇸🤝🇦🇪 — UAE to invest $1.4 trillion in the US during the next 10 years.

Congratulations to the winners of the poll, they've beat Saudi Arabia and Qatar

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🇷🇺 — Putin dismissed chief of Russian military's land forces Oleg Salyukuv, appoints him as deputy to Sergei Shoigu in the Russian Security Council.

🇺🇸🤝🇦🇪 — Burj Khalifa is displaying the US flag amid Trump's visit to the country.

🇮🇱🇺🇸📞⁉️🇸🇾 — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio claims that the Syrian government has requested US assistance in expelling foreign fighters and making peace with Israel:

They asked for our help in expelling foreign fighters and terrorists and expressed their desire for peace with Israel.

🏴❌🇸🇾 — 'Islamic State' terrorists ambushed a vehicle of the SDF militia with an IED in Abu Hammam, Deir ez Zor, followed by armed clashes, the SDF acknowledges 1 death and 3 injuries following the ambush.

➡️ The militants then reportedly fled to Syrian government controlled areas west of the Euphrates river, the leader of the Hajin sector of the SDF militias is suspected dead or injured in the attack.

➡️ Another battle took place in Jarthi, although no casualties were recorded there.