— 🇰🇼/🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Kuwaiti company 'Americana Restaurants,' the Middle East's largest fast food franchise, has reported a 48.2% decline in profits to $117.4 million over nine months due to global boycotts of Israeli-linked brands

Americana Group operates over 2,000 outlets, including KFC and Pizza Hut.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: A recent Associated Press-NORC survey shows that the majority of Americans oppose supplying weapons or government funding to support Israel, with even greater opposition to deploying troops, including among Republicans

However, just over half of registered voters still favor U.S. economic sanctions on Iran.

The poll, conducted on October 14, 2024, included 1,072 adults.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: The IDF has announced the death of 3 of its soldiers in Gaza; Sergeant Itay Parizat, Sergeant Yair Hananya, and Shneur Zalman Cohen.

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— 🇱🇧/🇮🇱 Israel's Systematic Targeting of Children and Healthcare: A Policy Replicated in Lebanon

Since October 4, the Israeli military has killed at least one child and injured 10 daily in Lebanon, according to UNICEF, but the real numbers are likely higher by the dozens. The World Health Organization reports at least 55 verified attacks on healthcare workers and facilities in Lebanon by Israel.

A recent CNN investigation analyzed over 240 airstrikes in Lebanon, revealing that at least 24 hospitals are within a 500-meter 'danger zone' designated by the Israeli military. Israel dropped munitions within a lethal range of 340 meters from at least 19 hospitals.

In Beirut and its southern suburbs, CNN confirmed that 10 hospitals fell within the 'kill zone,' where bomb fragments can cause fatalities. Nine hospitals have been damaged, three of which closed due to Israeli strikes since September 23. Lebanon's health ministry indicates that about 20% of hospitals in the country have been affected.

Israeli strikes have also killed at least 12 Lebanese Civil Defense first responders and 16 Lebanese Red Cross paramedics. Overall, since September 23, Israel has killed at least 111 emergency medical technicians, struck 107 ambulances, and damaged 34 hospitals.

Graphic was last updated on October 23

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: The United States has reportedly sent messages to Iran through intermediaries, stating that they will not be able to restrain Israel anymore in case of another Iranian attack

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Iran has 'received, but ignored' the message – Sources

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There are no explosions in Tehran, I didn't hear anything. Fake news as usual.

— 🇺🇸 NEW: Ahead of Tuesday’s presidential election, the National Guard is on standby in several states, including Washington and Oregon, where fires damaged hundreds of ballots and at least three drop boxes.

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— When Masoud Pezeshkian won the Iranian Presidential election earlier this year, millions of Iranians were angry, worried, and very disappointed. But there were no mass-protests, no riots, no civil unrest, because people trust the election process, and they accepted the will of the people.

In the United States, not only do supporters of the losing party often riot and create civil unrest, they also publicly claim nationwide election fraud or foreign interference. Last time, the sitting President even actively tried to overturn the election results. This is all besides the fact that there are only two real candidates in the US election, while Iran had more than half a dozen different candidates.

Yet somehow, international media have the audacity to call America a democracy, but Iran a 'dysfunctional dictatorship'.

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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 Hebrew Media: 'Hamas fighters misled the IDF in the operation that led to the killing of 4 members of the Ghost Unit. Instead of booby-trapping the first floor of the building, which is usually the center of danger, they booby-trapped the second floor to make the soldiers believe that the building was safe. Their plan actually succeeded.'

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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades have announced that they shot down an IDF drone while it was carrying out intelligence missions in the airspace of the eastern Gaza Strip.

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 Deputy Commander of the IRGC: 'Operation True Promise III will definitely be carried out, but its details can not be discussed.'

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