—❗️🇸🇾/🇮🇱 NEW: Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa confirmed to the media that Israel and Syria are in 'advanced talks' regarding a security agreement, or in other words, a quasi-normalization

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— 🇮🇱/🇪🇬 NEW: Israel confirms that any movement of Egyptian forces in the Sinai Peninsula is pre-approved and coordinated with the IDF – Kann

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— 🇮🇱 NEW: Israeli police have launched an investigation into multiple claims of 'organized ritual sexual abuse' following testimonies by victims presented to lawmakers

The revelations, primarily from ultra-Orthodox communities, detail systematic abuse of children as young as five, allegedly implicating Jewish religious leaders, educators, police officers, and even current and former Knesset members.

Victims recounted gruesome details of torture and rape, often by groups and sometimes by their own parents, incorporating 'ritualistic and religious elements.' Other accounts included child trafficking and the filming of these acts.

Accusers and activists have noted a 'systemic indifference' to such cases and the reported involvement of powerful individuals, including a Likud MK under police investigation for rape who was appointed to a powerful committee.

Such cases of 'ritual sexual abuse' have been reported in Israel time and time again.

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— 🇳🇴/🇮🇱/🇺🇸 NEW: Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the largest in the world, has sold its shares in the American company 'Caterpillar' due to its supplying of the IDF with bulldozers, and has divested from five Israeli banks

In the past two weeks, the fund has divested from at least 17 other Israeli companies.

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— 🇮🇷/🇺🇳 National Security Commission of the Iranian Parliament warns the Foreign Ministry against renewing cooperation with the IAEA:

'The great nation of Iran will never forget the blatant violation and cooperation of the Secretary General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with the criminal Zionist regime, who, contrary to his legal duty, which was to strongly condemn the attack on the centers of peaceful nuclear activities of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the United States and the Zionist regime, chose a regrettable silence and did not fulfill his legal duty.

The National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, while re-condemning the Secretary General of the Agency, Rafael Grossi, who is a loyalist of the United States and the Zionist regime, strongly urges the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Atomic Energy Organization to strictly comply with the law of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of suspending all cooperation with the Agency.

The fact is that we do not trust the Agency, and we will not allow them to pave the way for further attacks by the United States and the Zionist regime on the nuclear sites of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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—❗️🇸🇾/🇮🇱 Syrian President, Ahmad Al-Sharaa (Al-Jolani): 'When the time comes, I will address public opinion to explain why peace and normalization with Israel is an essential matter, and I possess a certain amount of trust with the Syrian people that allows me to convince them that this idea is beneficial for them and for the region'

NOTE: President Ahmad Al-Sharaa said this quote in private, to an Arab press delegation which was visiting Damascus. The above video shows the reporter narrating this event.

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— 🇸🇾/🇮🇱 NEW: Israeli airstrikes were reported in the Damascus countryside approximately two hours ago, killing two and injuring six.

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— ❗️🇺🇸/🇱🇧 WATCH: U.S. Envoy Tom Barrack calls Lebanese journalists 'animalistic' during his meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the Baabda Palace

The office of the failed President Aoun later issued a statement apologizing for 'words that were inadvertently spoken by one of the guests.'

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— 🇮🇷/🇵🇰 NEW: Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, the Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, held a phone call with Field Marshal Asim Muneer of Pakistan

The two discussed joint cooperation in the field of counter-terrorism in the Balochistan region, as well as the brotherly relations between Iran and Pakistan.

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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 WATCH: Al-Qassam Brigades have released footage of the ambush on July 7 in Beit Hanoun that killed 5 Israeli soldiers of the 'Kfir' Brigade.

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— 🇺🇸 WATCH: President Trump calls 'Operation Warp Speed' in 2020 to accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID vaccines 'one of the greatest achievements ever.'

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi:

'Some countries in the region say that in order to stop Israel, we must make peace with them.

How did Iran resist Israel? Through diplomacy and concessions? No.

Iran resisted Israel with its missiles!

Israel understands only the language of force, not appeasement. And Iran will never follow the path of appeasement with Israel.

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— 🇮🇷/🇪🇬 Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi:

'Iran and Egypt have good relations and interactions like two normal countries. We are in no hurry to start an official relationship and are waiting for the right time.

The embassies of our two countries in Tehran and Cairo are fully operational, but their name is technically the 'Office of Protection of Interests', not the 'Embassy'.

But in reality, the people in charge of these offices in Tehran and Cairo are at the level and rank of ambassadors.'

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇱 Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi: 'Gulf countries shouldn't be worried about Iran's policies, they should be concerned about Israel's policies, which could lead to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and war in the Persian Gulf'

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