Another Hamas commander killed: IDF reports

Bilal Al-Kedra was eliminated during an operation involving fighter jets. Several Palestinian Hamas and Islamic jihad fighters were also killed, according to an IDF statement.

The IDF reportedly struck Hamas operational command centers, military installations, anti-tank missile launching sites and observation posts in Zaytoun, Jabaliya and Khan Yunis. In addition, Islamic jihad operational command centers were struck.

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🗣 In certain fields of hostilities, Ukraine is preparing new active offensive operations, and Russia is responding accordingly, the president emphasized

Russian troops are improving their position in most of the area. This is an active defense with certain improvement, Putin added.

US forces allies worsen relations with Russia, China, but Europe unwilling to spoil relations with Beijing, Putin said.

Israeli army reportedly delays start of ground operation in Gaza

The Israeli army had planned to begin the ground operation this weekend, but postponed the deadline by several days due to weather conditions, an American newspaper reported, citing unnamed senior IDF officials who shared unclassified details of the plan.

The IDF was preparing to expand its offensive in the Gaza Strip to include a ground operation, Israeli media reported earlier.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Latest updates on Palestinian-Israeli conflict

▪️The Palestinian Health Ministry reports 2,329 casualties, including fatalities and 9,042 injuries in the Gaza Strip.

▪️Local media claim that Hezbollah has seized an IDF base on the Lebanese-Israeli border.

▪️Hamas leader Haniyeh met with the Iranian Foreign Minister in Qatar.

▪️After an attack from Syria, Israel retaliated by targeting Aleppo International Airport, rendering it inoperable according to the Syrian Ministry of Defense.

▪️The United States has called on China to help resolve the conflict. China's proposed solution involves the creation of an independent State of Palestine and guarantees of peace with Israel.

▪️Israel has postponed its ground operation due to adverse weather conditions. Heavy rains in Tel Aviv have led to flooding in the streets.

▪️If an Israeli ground operation is carried out, Iran has issued a threat to intervene in the conflict.

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💬 'The hospital will become mass grave when generators run out of fuel'

🗣 The number of injured has exceeded the capacity of Al-Shifa medical complex, the largest in the Gaza Strip, Dr. Muhammad Salima, the director of Al-Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip, told Sputnik.

According to Dr. Muhammad Salima, in just eight days, the number of casualties and injuries has exceeded the total number of casualties in the entire 51 days of the 2014 conflict.

Salima added that more than 40 ambulances have already been affected by these unprecedented crimes.

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Today Lebanon shelled the Israeli town of Shtula. One Israeli was killed, three others were injured

The Israel Defense Forces announced that they will carry out retaliatory strikes.

Entry into the area up to 4 kilometers from the northern border with Lebanon is closed.

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❗️Thousands pro-Palestinian demonstrators march in Sydney despite threats of deportation from Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton

Earlier, Peter Dutton doubled down on calls to revoke the visas of anti-Semitic protesters, despite warnings from the head of Australia's spy agency ASIO that "inflammatory language" could inflame community tensions.

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❗️A Russian Su-27 fighter jet was deployed to prevent the US Air Force's RQ-4B "Global Hawk" drone from violating Russia's border in the Black Sea, the Russian MoD reported.

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The Israeli Air Force attacked the Al-Ahly Al-Arabi hospital in northern Gaza

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🗣 Beijing does not impose its will on anyone, which is a distinctive feature of the PRC under the leadership of Xi Jinping in building relations with other countries, distinguishing China from a number of states with a heavy colonial legacy, Vladimir Putin said in an interview with China Central Television

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📹 Israeli forces drop leaflets urging Gaza City residents to relocate to the south of the strip

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❗️ "F*** the police!" - is how one protester in Australia reacted to the government's decision to ban thousands of pro-Palestinians from marching in Sydney's CBD today.

Not all protesters agreed with his sentiment, as seen in this Sputnik exclusive.

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

▪️ In the direction of Kupyansk, the Russian Armed Forces repelled six enemy attacks. More than 50 Ukrainian troops, one tank, two armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks and one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system were eliminated.

▪️ Three Ukrainian attacks were repulsed by the Russian army in the LPR. Enemy losses amounted to up to 180 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, three armored combat vehicles and two pickup trucks.

▪️ The Russian Army repulsed five enemy attacks in the DPR. The enemy has lost up to 410 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, two armored combat vehicles and three motor vehicles.

▪️ In the direction of South Donetsk, the Russian Armed Forces repelled one enemy attack. Up to 155 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles and three motor vehicles were neutralized.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces repulsed one Ukrainian attack in the Zaporozhye region. Up to 55 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, three motor vehicles, one US M777 artillery system and one D-30 howitzer were destroyed.

▪️ Russian air defense forces intercepted three U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS missiles during the day.

▪️ Some 488 aircraft and 250 helicopters, 7,888 unmanned aerial vehicles, 441 air defense missile systems, 12,640 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,163 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,771 field artillery guns and mortars, and 14,297 pieces of special military equipment were destroyed during the special military operation.

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❗️ Nine missiles were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory; Israeli air defenses intercepted five of them. The IDF has conducted strikes on the launch site in Lebanon, as stated by the army

📹 Soldiers of Russia's Viking special forces detachment identified a camouflaged dugout with Ukrainian infantry in the Artemovsk direction and subsequently destroyed it using a kamikaze drone

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🇺🇸🇮🇱 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Israel again on Monday, as reported by an American newspaper

According to Blinken's spokesperson, Matthew Miller, Antony Blinken will return to Israel on Monday. This visit comes as the country prepares to launch a major offensive against the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip by air, land, and sea.

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🇮🇷 Iran's UN mission weighs in on Israel's ground operation: Iran's armed forces will not engage in battle, if Tel Aviv does not attack Iran, the resistance front can defend itself.

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