📹 The aftermath of a missile strike on the Al-Susi mosque in Al-Shati camp in northern Gaza

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📹 Aftermath of a missile attack on the Israeli city of Ashdod by Al-Qassam Brigades, a military wing of Hamas, which has left at least three people injured, according to a video from social media

Al-Qassam Brigades say they have also fired rockets towards Ashkelon, Tel Aviv and Sderot.

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🤔 Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system is widely regarded as one of the best in the world. That said, it apparently failed to completely negate the Palestinian rocket barrage on Saturday

📌 Commenting on this failure, Russian military historian Yuri Knutov pointed out that while Iron Dome is a very advanced and sophisticated air defense system, it has drawbacks that can be exploited by any enemy.

▪️ А single Iron Dome battery can protect a relatively small area (about 150 square kilometers).

▪️ Iron Dome is extremely effective only when dealing with a small number of incoming targets all of which approach from the same direction.

▪️ А single Iron Dome interceptor missile costs at least $20,000 while Palestinian jury-rigged rockets – the threat Iron Dome systems usually have to deal with – cost only about $2,000-$3,000 apiece.

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IDF conducting wide-scale strikes on Hamas strategic centers in Gaza Strip

The Israeli military is conducing wide-scale strikes on strategic centers of the Hamas organization in the Gaza Strip on Monday, the IDF said.

Meanwhile, Hamas claimed that IDF strikes killed four Israeli captives.

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❗️ LIVE NOW: Russian FM Lavrov and Arab League chief Aboul Gheit hold press conference in Moscow

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🗣️ On the US policy of waging wars all over the world in order to maintain hegemony:

“This premise that the US is working from is one of global hegemony. After the end of World War II, the US wanted to assert itself as the sole superpower on Earth, and that meant they needed to eliminate peer and near-peer competitors and they also needed to subordinate or re-subordinate a lot of these nations that had been former European or American colonies… And that is what the United States has been doing around the globe, from the Vietnam War, to Afghanistan, to Iraq, Libya, Syria, and now this conflict in Ukraine, this proxy war the US is waging against Russia in Ukraine,” Brian Berletic, ex-US Marine, independent geopolitical researcher, and writer based in Bangkok, told Sputnik.

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⚡️ US trying to monopolize mediation efforts in Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement, Russian FM Lavrov says

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☣️ Illegal US bioresearch investigated by 🇺🇸 Congress after Russian MoD report

Nevada company Prestige Biotech's activities are being examined, Igor Kirillov, the head of radiation, chemical, and biological defense of the Russian Armed Forces, says.

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Uragan takes another Ukrainian stronghold by surprise

📹 Russian reconnaissance identified a camouflaged enemy stronghold with personnel and firepower. The decision was made to use a Uragan multiple rocket launcher system to destroy it.

Russian artillerymen, who had left their hiding place, immediately arrived at the designated area and fired 220 mm rounds. Unmanned aerial vehicles regulated the fire. Upon completion of the combat mission, the artillerymen promptly repositioned themselves.

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🗣 Weapons transferred by NATO to the regime in Ukraine are actively used in Israel, and will continue to be used uncontrolled in all hot spots, said Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.

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#SputnikInfographic📊 Which territories does Hamas control?

On October 7, the Palestinian militant group launched a surprise attack on Israel, targeting it with a barrage of missiles and infiltrating it by land, sea and air. Israeli Defense Forces were caught off guard and many troops were shot or taken captive.

The Israeli government sent troops to reconquer southern territories and expulse Hamas forces, while simultaneously shelling the Gaza Strip with missiles.

On October 8, the Israeli government invoked article 40 of the Basic Law which means that the country is in a state of war. Right now, Hamas controls a solid part of Israeli territory despite IDF efforts.

Have a look at Sputnik's infographic to see which land Hamas claimed in the course of the clashes.

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🇮🇱🇺🇸 ”Were there not an Israel, the US would have to invent an Israel to protect our interests in the region”

💬 Joe Biden's 1986 remarks to the Senate that aid to Israel was "the best $3 billion investment we [the US] made".

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⚡️ Netanyahu asserted that Israel's military response to Hamas will "change the Middle East"

‘Who, if not us?’ - Russian paratroopers in action

📹 Russian assault units destroyed Ukrainian formations that attempted to bypass the city of Artemovsk (Bakhmut) from the north.

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#SputnikInfographic📊 As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict gains momentum, Sputnik has compiles a list of countries that have publicly supported either one of the sides in the conflict

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⚠️ WARNING: SENSITIVE CONTENT

📹 Consequences of another Israeli strike on Gaza

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❗️Key points from the Russian Defense Ministry briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces repelled three enemy attacks in the DPR. The enemy lost up to 140 Ukrainian servicemen killed or wounded, three armored combat vehicles and two motor vehicles.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces neutralized enemy personnel and hardware in the Zaporozhye region. Up to 15 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, two motor vehicles and a D-30 howitzer were destroyed.

▪️ In the direction of Kupyansk the Russian forces repulsed five enemy attacks. Enemy losses during the day amounted to up to 170 Ukrainian soldiers, four pick-up trucks and one Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system.

▪️ The Russian Army repulsed two Ukrainian attacks in the LPR. Up to 45 Ukrainian troops, two armored combat vehicles, two motor vehicles were neutralized.

▪️ The Russian Army repulsed one enemy attack in the direction of south Donetsk. Total losses of the enemy in this direction over the past 24 hours amounted to more than 200 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, one infantry fighting vehicle, two armored fighting vehicles, two motor vehicles and one D-20 howitzer.

▪️ In the Kherson region, up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen, three motor vehicles and a D-30 howitzer were neutralized by fire.

▪️ Russian air defense units intercepted one HIMARS MLRS missile during the day.

▪️ Some 487 aircraft and 250 helicopters, 7,649 unmanned aerial vehicles, 441 air defense missile systems, 12,425 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,161 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,692 field artillery and mortar pieces, as well as 13,949 pieces of special military equipment were destroyed during the special military operation.

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🇮🇱🇱🇧 The situation on Israel's border with Lebanon is heating up

▪️ The IDF killed "a number of armed suspects" who entered Israeli territory, and also, according to media reports, struck targets in Lebanon.

▪️ Tel Aviv's combat aircraft are operating in the border area, with gunfire, explosions and sirens heard in cities in north of Israel.

▪️ The question of the possible participation of the Lebanese Hezbollah in the conflict is now one of the most pressing. Historically, this is Hamas’s closest ally, but so far the group has not reported attempts to “open a second front”, limiting itself to several “solidarity strikes”.

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🥴 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken deleted a previously published tweet in which he called for a ceasefire between Israel and Palestine

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