🇷🇺🗣 Russian Foreign Ministry on the escalation in Israel:

▪️Moscow expresses its most serious concern about the sharp escalation of the situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone;

▪️Russia calls on the parties to forge a ceasefire, renounce violence and establish a negotiation process with the assistance of the international community;

▪️Moscow regards the escalation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone as a consequence of non-compliance with UN and Security Council resolutions.

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📹 Four captured Israeli Merkava tanks and one Namer armored personnel carrier allegedly shown in footage that has appeared on social networks

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⚡️ The number of casualties in Israel due to the escalation with Palestine has increased to 779, media reports

🇮🇱 Israeli military intelligence was caught unprepared by Palestinian shock offensive

🗣 Hamas has been preparing this operation for a long time, Retired Brig. Gen. Dr. Meir Elran, a senior research fellow and head of three security programs at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, believes.

💬 "They have been trying to deceive and to hide this from us. And apparently they were successful. And this just shows you that here in this neighborhood, here in the Middle East, anything can happen. Even those things that you do not really predict will happen", Dr. Elran said.

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⚡️ Civilians are being held hostage in their homes in the towns of Be'eri and Ofakim in southern Israel, according to a local newspaper

⚡️The Israeli cabinet meeting has ended without any decisions being made and will take place again this evening

📹 IDF releases a video of the military deployment to take part in Operation Iron Swords against Hamas

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🗣️ Ukraine Lost 350,000 Troops, Hundreds of Tanks

“It's a complete failure. Because it's almost four months of their offensive operation. The losses are huge. They lost, according to the data which was made public by the Russian Minister of Defense, only for four months period is around 75,000 people killed… The losses of equipment and materiel is also huge. Hundreds of tanks, aircraft, thousands of armored vehicles, artillery pieces, everything are also huge, including Western Leopard tanks, Challenger tanks, French tanks Leclerc and their wheeled tank. The same will be with Abrams when they arrive to Ukraine,” Evgeny Buzhinsky, retired Russian lieutenant-general, told Sputnik.

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Benjamin Netanyahu, in a conversation with Biden, thanked him for his support and said that Israel needs “a long and powerful campaign, as a result of which Israel will win.”

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