🇯🇲 — #Melissa is pretty much moving due north at this time, maybe with a slight westward tick as well. This motion will put areas like Whitehouse & Belmont, Jamaica into the eye, with Black River & Treasure Beach staying in the inner eyewall for much longer.

This motion will also pull more storm surge into Black River and areas north. Not a good situation...

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🌪🇯🇲 The NHC stated that winds could be 30% stronger on the windward side of hills and mountains across Jamaica.

Melissa is producing extreme wind gusts as high as 215 mph on the surface.

30% stronger than 215 = 279.5.

We could be talking wind gusts in excess of 250 mph on these hills and mountains, for hours.

This is beyond capable of producing total and utter devastation, similar to a higher end tornado.

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🇯🇲 — Serious wind in Black Water, Jamaica.

🇯🇲 — Roofs falling apart and debris flying about in Black Water, Jamaica.

🇯🇲 — Collapse of internet services begins in Jamaica, particularly in western Jamaica, as Hurricane Melissa makes landfall.

#BREAKING
⚡️🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 - Hebrew Media reports the decision to expand the IDF control line in the Gaza strip, following the announcement of intent to launch a round of aerial assault on the strip.

⚡️🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 - Intense and low altitude IAF Reconnaissance operations are currently ongoing in the airspace of southern Gaza's Khan Yunis, likely intelligence gathering efforts for the expected assault.

⚡️🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 - Israel's Defense Minister Yizrael Katz has warned Hamas, and has stated that they will pay a "heavy price" in a seemingly inevitable assault.

📝 He stated:

» The attack on IDF soldiers in Gaza today by the Hamas terror organization is a crossing of a glaring red line to which the IDF will respond with great force.
» Hamas will pay many times over for attacking the soldiers and for violating the agreement to return the fallen hostages.

⚡️🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 - IDF Artillery fire targeting central Gaza's 'Deir AlBalah', alongside ongoing continuous airstrikes on northern Gaza's Gaza city and "AlShati'".

"Kann" Hebrew news outlet has confirmed the start of assaults on Gaza.

⚡️🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 - Airstrikes target the vicinity of the "AlShifa" hospital in northern Gaza.

⚡️🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 - Local Palestinian media reports the death of 3 Palestinian's, as a result of the strike on a residential building in 'AlSabra', including children.

⚡️🇵🇸🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 - The Hamas Political movement have published a statement, denying responsibility of the attack on IDF troops in Rafah, killing one. The movement confirms continuing to adhere to the ceasefire.

The full statement [click to expand]:

We affirm that we have no connection to the shooting incident in Rafah, and we affirm our commitment to the ceasefire agreement.

The criminal bombing carried out by the Israeli occupation army on areas of the Gaza Strip represents a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement signed in Sharm AlSheikh under the auspices of US President Trump.

This terrorist attack is an extension of the series of violations committed in recent days, including attacks which resulted in martyrs and wounded and the continued closure of the Rafah crossing, confirming the insistence on violating the terms of the agreement and trying to make it fail.

We call on the mediating guarantors of the agreement to act immediately to pressure Israeli in curbing its brutal escalation against civilians in the Gaza Strip, stop its serious violations of the ceasefire agreement, and urge it to adhere to all its terms.

🇯🇲🇨🇺 — Hurricane Melissa has been downgraded to a Category 4, with maximum winds of 150 MPH; regardless of this downgrade, it remains a dangerous situation for Jamaicans stuck in the storm. The hurricane should move north away from Jamaica tonight.

As of now, it will next move in to eastern Cuba, which will likewise likely see dangerous to catastrophic flash flooding, with over a foot of rain to 16 inches forecasted in some areas of the country.

The National Hurricane Center has advised Jamaicans to stay in shelters tonight, with widespread catastrophic and life-threatening flash flooding & landslides expected.

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — 37 people were killed including 16 children in Israeli airstrikes on homes in several areas of the Gaza Strip.

🇵🇰❌🏳️ — Peace talks have collapsed between Afghanistan and Pakistan without reaching an agreement.