— 🇺🇸 NEW: On Truth Social, Trump has gone as far as blaming Kamala Harris for October 7.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Noa Argamani, former Israeli prisoner who was held by Hamas, said she was not beaten during her captivity, but rather sustained injuries when the building she was in was bombed by the Israeli Air Force.

Argamani accused the Israeli media of taking her words out of context and misrepresenting the situation in an attempt to use it as propaganda.

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— 🇮🇱/🇸🇾 BREAKING: Reports of airstrikes in Homs, Syria, probably the Israeli Air Force

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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Al-Qassam Brigades attack IDF gatherings in the 'Netzarim' corridor with a 'Zouari' suicide drone, named after the late Tunisian aerospace engineer who helped Hamas develop drones.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇺🇦 NEW: The Biden administration has appointed Mira Resnick, a Jewish official with deep involvement in weapons transfers to Israel and Ukraine, to a new State Department role.

This move has drawn criticism from former State Department official Annelle Sheline, who resigned from her post in March.

In an interview in October, Resnick stated:

“I've been interested in foreign policy for as long as I can remember. The U.S.-Israel relationship was a private focus in my household because of my Jewish background, but also because we were just a politically aware family.”

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— 🇮🇪/🇮🇱 NEW: The Irish Times reports that Ireland will allow Israeli arms companies to sell weapons to the country. The Irish Defence Forces plan to acquire 14 drones worth $670,000 over the next year.

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— 🇸🇾/🇮🇱 NEW: As a result of the Israeli attack on Homs, 7 civilians were injured. Syrian Air Defense was activated and intercepted some of the missiles.

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— 🇺🇸 BREAKING: Robert F Kennedy Jr. to withdraw from presidential race and endorse Donald Trump.

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— 🇺🇸 The Commission on U.S. National Defense Strategy reports that the winner of the November U.S. presidential election will face the most challenging strategic situation since 1945.

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— 🇺🇸 Correction: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will not suspend his campaign fully, but he will withdraw his name from the ballot in the battleground states & encourages his supporters to vote for Trump in those states

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MUST WATCH: The Yemeni Navy published scenes of the “SOUNION” ship in the Red Sea after it was targeted for violating the ban to israeli ports.

— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 WATCH: Israeli soldiers film themselves invading 'Bani Saleh' mosque and ripping copies of the Qur'an.

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— 🇮🇷/🇺🇸 NEW: Meta reports Iranian hacker group 'APT42' targeted WhatsApp accounts of officials in the Trump and Biden administrations.

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— 🇵🇸/🇪🇬 NEW: A Hamas delegation will arrive in Cairo this evening to discuss the latest Gaza ceasefire talks with mediators.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: The International Criminal Court prosecutor requested that judges urgently decide on arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, stating the court has jurisdiction to investigate Israeli nationals.

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— 🇶🇦/🇮🇷 NEW: Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani to visit Iran in the coming days, Tasnim reports.

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— 🇷🇺/🇮🇱 NEW: A Russian court has sentenced five men to over six years in prison each for their roles in an 'anti-Israel riot' at an airport in Dagestan last October.

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— 🇱🇧/🇮🇱 NEW: The Lebanese Health Ministry reported 2,412 casualties, including 564 deaths, as of data up to August 20.

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— 🇫🇷 NEW: An explosion occurred near the 'Beth Yaacov' synagogue in La Motte near Montpellier, southern France, injuring a police officer.

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