HAWIK IS NOT IN LEBANON

I AM GETTING BRAIN CANCER

— 🇪🇬/🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Egypt has released a statement strongly opposing the US-Israeli plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza

Egypt went as far as saying that this would be considered a threat to national security, & that it could put the Camp David Accords (Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty) at risk.

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— 🇮🇱 NEW: A reservist in the IDF has been given a 7 month jail sentence for abusing Palestinian prisoners at the Sde Teiman detention facility

As part of a plea deal, Staff Sgt. (res.) Yisrael Zakaria Hajbi, admitted guilt to the charges against him and will be demoted to the rank of private.

It was the arrest of Hajbi and 9 other detention center guards back in July of 2024 that led to protesters, as well as politicians to storm the Sde Teiman detention facility to prevent the arrests by the Israeli Military Police.

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I hope Trump and Netanyahu actually try displacing Palestinians from Gaza, for two reasons:

1. It won't work. Palestinians will remain there and will never leave.

2. It might, for the first time since the 1970s, cause the formation of an Arab coalition against Israel.

For some of these countries, especially Egypt and Jordan, it could even be a casus belli.

— 🇮🇷 WATCH: Footage of various IRIAF fighter jets, including the MiG-29, MiG-23, Su-24, F-4 'Phantom,' F-5F, F-5E, and its domestic clone the HESA 'Saeqeh,' among others. Tomorrow marks Air Force Day in Iran.

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— 🇺🇸/🇨🇳 NEW: U.S. lawmakers plan to introduce a bill banning DeepSeek's AI chatbot on government devices due to security concerns that it may share user information with the Chinese government.

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— 🇩🇪/🇮🇷 NEW: Reza Pahlavi, son of the former Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, has been barred from partaking in the 61st Munich Security Conference (MSC) meeting next week.

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— 🇦🇫/🇺🇿/🇺🇸 NEW: Uzbekistan has begun transferring American military aircraft back to the United States, that were flown to the country by pilots under the previous Afghan government in 2021 as they fled the country during the Taliban takeover.

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— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 The Lebanese state is completely failing in its obligation to force the Israelis to abide by the ceasefire agreement.

The ceasefire has been violated for weeks, in almost every sense of the word, and in any other situation, Hezbollah would have responded by now. But the reality is, they are exhausted after more than a year of war, and in the new political environment in Lebanon their position is even more fragile.

Hezbollah needs to preserve the majority of its capabilities in case of a larger regional war, it needs to focus on rebuilding, it cannot afford to restart the war at this moment, especially with their supply lines uncertain and a threat from Syria simultaneously.

Besides, the entire reason for entering the war against Israel was to be a support front for Gaza, which doesn't apply anymore. But it looks like the Israelis are perhaps looking to continue the war, both in Gaza and in Lebanon, emboldened by Trump.

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'Some have told us, leave this battle (for Palestine) and we will give you safety.

You want to give us safety while the oppressed and persecuted have no safety?

Curses be upon you, and upon your safety!'

– Shaheed Hassan Nasrallah

— 🇺🇸/🇻🇪 NEW: The United States has seized a Dassault Falcon 200 jet belonging to Venezuela, marking the second such plane taken from the country in recent months.

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