— 🇮🇷 Iran's President, Masoud Pezeshkian: 'When I became President, Ismael Haniyeh was martyred in Tehran. Just a few months later Israel went to war with us, and now we have a water shortage.'

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— ❗️🇮🇱 WATCH: Israeli Prime Minister and international fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu calls for mass censorship of 'the algorithms and the social networks' to stop criticism of Israel

He states, 'Israel is accused of starving children in the way Jews in the Middle Ages were accused of killing Christian children for their blood.'

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Hebrew media reports that an Israeli soldier from the 932nd Battalion of the 'Nahal' Brigade has been injured due to sniper fire in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

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— ❗️🇮🇱 Benjamin Netanyahu: 'There is work to be done on Gen-Z across the West'

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— ❗️🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: When asked if Israel plans to take over all of Gaza and continue the war even if Hamas agreed to a hostage deal, Benjamin Netanyahu explicitly states: 'We’re going to do that anyway. There was never a question that we’re not going to leave Hamas there,' effectively putting the narrative that Hamas is obstructing a ceasefire to rest once and for all.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇷🇺/🇺🇦 BREAKING: President Trump is 'stepping back' from Russia-Ukraine mediation for now – The Guardian

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇷🇺/🇺🇦 BREAKING: The United States is considering implementing a 'no-fly zone' as part of its options to increase its air support to Ukraine – Reuters

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇷🇺/🇺🇦 President Trump: 'Russia is hitting Ukraine hard. They're hitting very hard. So why shouldn't Ukraine be allowed to hit them back? That's how it works, you hit and get hit, you can't complain about that.'

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— 🇷🇺/🇺🇦 NOTE: Sources state that President Trump is temporarily stepping back from mediating between Russia and Ukraine after Foreign Minister Lavrov's repeated pushback against security guarantees for Ukraine, as well as Russia's continued drone and air attacks during the negotiation process

Trump reportedly sees these repeated acts of defiance by Russia as 'disrespect', and perceives Putin as unwilling to make any real compromises. Sources also said Trump's recent meeting with Zelenskyy and European leaders was 'amicable', and that it somewhat amended his ties with the Ukrainians.

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— 🇺🇸 NEW: Active shooter situation at University of Tennessee Chattanooga

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— Donald Trump, 2023: 'Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, I will have the disastrous war between Russia and Ukraine settled. It will take me no longer than one day.'

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— He's 100% sure guys

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇷🇺/🇺🇦 President Trump: 'We'll know if there will be peace between Russia and Ukraine in about two weeks. After that, we'll maybe have to take a different track.'

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: The U.S. State Department fired its top press officer for Israeli-Palestinian affairs, Iranian-American Shahed Ghoreishi, due to writing 'we do not support forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza' in a press statement, suggesting condolences for Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif who was assassinated by Israel, as well as using the internationally accepted name 'West Bank' instead of 'Judea and Samaria'

His dismissal came after complaints from Jewish-American lobbyist Laura Loomer and the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.

Ghoreishi said his drafts were 'consistently approved at the senior level in the past; it begs the question why I was suddenly targeted without a direct explanation and whether our Israel-Palestine policy is about to get even worse, including an unwillingness to take any stand against ethnic cleansing. The future looks bleak.'

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— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧/☦️ NEW: An Israeli soldier nails a monkey doll to a cross, seemingly in an act of disrespect towards Jesus Christ and Christianity, in one of the five points the IDF occupies in southern Lebanon, and publishes the photo on his social media account

There has been a consistent trend of Israeli soldiers displaying bizarre behavior with dolls and toys, particularly those belonging to Palestinian children, including instances of hanging them from the ceiling and taking photos.

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—❗️🇮🇷 BREAKING: Iran closes its Western airspace for unannounced large-scale ballistic missile and air defense exercises

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