❗️The moment the Jewish occupation forces opened fire on a family while they were inspecting their home yesterday.

The Israeli soldiers killed the father next to his two sons, in a new Jewish war crime in Lebanon

— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 WATCH: Saraya Al-Quds have published a recorded message from Israeli prisoner Arbel Yehud, who is set to be released on Thursday.

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— 🇺🇦/🇲🇩 NEW: The government of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), a breakaway region of Moldova, has declined an offer made by the central government in Moldova and Ukraine on the supply of Ukrainian coal to help with the country's energy crisis

The crisis began on New Years Day when Ukraine stopped the transfer of Russian pipeline gas through its territory. The PMR government stated that Ukrainian coal is unsuitable for the Cuciurgan Power Station, which is located in the PMR and was responsible for over three quarters of the electricity generation for all of Moldova prior to 2025.

Estimates are that fuel and coal reserves on the territory of the PMR will run out sometime in February, leading to a potential catastrophe in the region.

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— 🇦🇱/🇺🇸/🇵🇸 NEW: Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has denied reports from Hebrew media claiming that Albania is in discussions with the U.S. to accept 100,000 Palestinian refugees from Gaza.

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— 🇺🇸 NEW: President Trump says he will instruct his cabinet to prepare the construction of an 'Iron Dome' defense system in the United States, like in Israel

Once again, this shows that Donald Trump has no clue what he's talking about. He probably saw Israel's air defenses, heard the word 'Iron Dome' and thought 'YES, I WANT THAT!', but that's not how it works.

First of all, the 'Iron Dome' is not the generic name of a network of air defense systems, it's one specific system, which operates in unison with other missile defense platforms.

The Israeli Iron Dome platform is meant to counter short-range rockets, missiles and artillery. It was specifically designed to help defend Israel from Hezbollah, Hamas and other armed groups on its borders, which mostly use short-range non-ballistic rockets.

For any medium to long-range projectiles and ballistic missiles, Israel uses other defense systems, such as the Arrow-2, Arrow-3, and David Sling.

When Trump says he wants to build an 'Iron Dome', he's probably talking about a more generic and long-range missile defense system. Because the Iron Dome would be almost totally useless in the US, as there are no armed groups on its borders that pose a significant threat in terms of short-range rockets and artillery.

Besides, the United States is far too big to cover it with such an extensive missile defense network as Israel. Trump just heard a buzzword and now he wants to do it. That's how things will be from now on.

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— 🇺🇸 Poll conducted among U.S. citizens aged 18-30: 'Democracy is at the core of American values, and must be protected.'

Agree: 71%
Disagree: 23%
Not sure: 6%

Nearly 1 in 4 young Americans states that dictatorship is not necessarily bad.

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— 1 in 4 young Americans are now basically fine with dictatorship. The future will CERTAINLY be interesting.

— 🇺🇸 NEW: Google has announced they will change the name of the 'Gulf of Mexico' to the 'Gulf of America' on Google Maps for U.S. based users once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System

Users in countries that officially recognize the territory as the 'Gulf of Mexico' will still see the name used by their respective governments, while users in countries that don't officially recognize any name will see both names.

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🇮🇱 The IDF minister of defense announced that they are staying indefinitely (forever) in the strategic Syrian Mount Hermon.

With the Golan and Hermon, Syria is a walk in the park for them and now threatens extensively south and central Lebanon.

— 🇩🇿/🇫🇷 NEW: Algeria has reportedly summoned the French ambassador to protest the harassment of its citizens at Paris airports.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: The IDF announces the death of Jacob Avitan, 39, an Israeli Defense Ministry contractor, who was killed in a 'friendly fire' incident in central Gaza today

Avitan, operating an excavator to clear rubble, was mistakenly identified as a threat at an IDF post in the 'Netzarim' corridor. A soldier opened fire, killing him.

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— ❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇺🇦 NEW: The U.S. military has moved approximately 90 'Patriot' interceptor missiles from storage in Israel to Poland this week for delivery to Ukraine.

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— NOTE: According to Axios, these are decommissioned Israeli interceptors, as Israel no longer uses the 'Patriot' system. The U.S. is facilitating the transfer to essentially prevent Israel from being directly accused by Russia of supplying arms to Ukraine.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: The U.S. Senate has blocked a bill to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in response to its arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister.

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