🇨🇴Colombian President Gustavo Petro has become the only Latin American leader to condemn Israel's military campaign in Gaza, describing it as a "genocide"

“If we must suspend diplomatic relations with Israel, then that is what we will do,” he wrote on X on Sunday.

🇮🇱Israel responded by moving to suspend defense cooperation with Colombia.

This decision could have significant ramifications for Colombia's military, according to Colombian lawyer and public policy adviser Mario Hurtado Cardoso.

“Colombia buys a lot of weapons from Israel, or through Israeli mediation,” he told Sputnik.

In 2022, Colombia imported $1.883 million worth of goods from Israel, while exporting $1.075 million to the Jewish state, according to data citied by Western media outlets.

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🗞Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of RT and Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group, commented on NY Post article about Putin’s "cynical offer" to mediate in the Middle East.

"Russia is the real force for good. What's wrong?"

This was an answer to the article's thesis that "Kremlin-financed RT and Sputnik “news” routinely brand Russia as a global force for good, bringing peace and security wherever it goes".

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

▪️In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Army repelled two attacks by Ukrainian troops;

▪️In the Donetsk direction, Russian forces destroy more than 260 Ukrainian military personnel and a tank;

▪️In the Krasny Liman direction, the Russian Army repelled six attacks by Ukrainian troops. Ukrainian losses amounted to 235 soldiers and three armored vehicles;

▪️In the Kherson direction, Ukrainian losses amounted to 40 soldiers;

▪️In the Kupyansk direction, Russian forces repelled 11 attacks by Ukrainian troops. Ukrainian losses amounted to 70 soldiers and a tank;

▪️In the South Donetsk direction, Ukrainian losses amounted to 190 soldiers and two armored vehicles;

▪️In the DPR, the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter near Troitsky;

▪️Russian air defenses shot down an Su-25 attack aircraft and an Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force.

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🇮🇱🇬🇧 Israeli President Isaac Herzog condemned the reluctance of the BBC to label the Palestinian Hamas movement a terrorist organization while talking to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

"I know that in modern democracies such as yours and ours, you cannot intervene per se, but because the BBC has a certain linkage and it is known as Britain as such all over the world, there has to be an outcry so that there will be a correction, and Hamas will be defined as a terror organization,” Herzog told Sunak.

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Sari in the colors of the Palestinian flag provokes a scandal on Indian TV

📹 An Israeli expert accused an Indian TV host of wearing a sari that resembled the colors of the Palestinian flag.

💬"How could someone conduct an interview with a Jew while purposefully donning the colors of their sworn adversary? It was clearly intentional, not a mere coincidence," stated the Israeli expert.

He also said that he himself was wearing blue and white because these colors would "always prevail."

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🇺🇸🇮🇱 The US has supplied Israel with the first batch of armored vehicles since the beginning of the escalation between Israel and Palestine.

The vehicles are David medical, operational, and cargo jeeps that are produced in the US in a joint venture with Israel, which makes it possible to purchase them with funds from the US defense budget.

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🟢 Where are pro-Palestine protests taking place?

🇱🇧 Lebanon
🇸🇾 Syria
🇯🇴 Jordan
🇮🇷 Iran
🇹🇷 Turkiye
🇹🇳 Tunisia
🇪🇬 Egypt
🇲🇦 Morocco
🇾🇪 Yemen
🇨🇦 Canada
🇺🇸 US
🇬🇧 UK
🇩🇪 Germany
🇫🇷 France
🇪🇸 Spain
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇬🇷 Greece
🇨🇴 Colombia
🇦🇺 Australia
🇮🇳 India
🇧🇩 Bangladesh

❌ Which countries have banned pro-Palestinian demonstrations?

🇫🇷 France: The top French court ruled that pro-Palestine demonstrations can still be banned in the country, but should be considered on a case-by-case basis.

🇩🇪 Germany: Berlin banned pro-Palestinian rallies in the city.

🇬🇧 UK - Britain's home secretary has warned that waving Palestinian flag may be criminal offense.

❓Did we forget any country? Write in the comments.

📹 In just 10 years, China’s Belt Road Initiative achieved more than the World Bank did in decades

🗣 "I think the Belt and Road Initiative is going to continue to evolve. We're talking about spending over $1 trillion, over 3,000 projects, as was just reported, in so many countries, 150 countries. There's never been a time in human history that such a large scale set of hard infrastructures were built, actually built, within a short period of just 10 years," Dr. John Gong, Professor of Economics at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing and a China Forum expert told Sputnik.

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⚡️ Russian SU-27 jets took off to prevent entrance of RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft, 2 UJ Typhoon jets to country’s airspace over Black Sea, the Russian MoD reported

What is Israel’s game plan after the Gaza operation?

🗣 "We have no intentions of staying there anyway. Once Hamas is annihilated, negotiations with Arab countries and the Palestinian Authority will take place. These are your people, this is your land. We do not claim it. Take it. The only thing we’re concerned about is that no new terrorist organization takes root there. And that there is no threat to Israel. That’s all," Yaakov Kedmi, military expert, former head of the "Nativ" Liaison Bureau.

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Scott Ritter: US not ready for war with Iran

🗣 "The United States has assiduously avoided direct large-scale military conflict with Iran for the simple fact that to prevail in such a conflict, the United States would have to dedicate military power sufficient to the task at a time when the finite resources of the US military were being allocated to Europe and the Pacific. Even if the US were to reallocate the forces necessary to prevail in a general war with Iran, it would take months to assemble the force needed," Sputnik's columnist noted.

Check out his full article on Sputnik's website

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🇮🇱 Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told Israeli soldiers on Thursday near the Gaza Strip that a ground operation may start soon.

"You see Gaza now from a distance, you will soon see it from inside. The command will come," the minister said as quoted by the Times of Israel.

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🇺🇳 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Thursday for a humanitarian ceasefire between the Gaza Strip and Israel for about two weeks.

Urgent delivery of aid and food to the Gaza Strip is absolutely necessary, Guterres told a joint press conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry in Cairo.

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🧐 Here we go again

Western leaders are rushing to visit Israel in hopes of scoring political points back home. Where have we seen this before?

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🇺🇸 The US State Department has advised US citizens worldwide “to exercise increased caution” due to “increased tensions in various locations around the world, the potential for terrorist attacks, demonstrations or violent actions against US citizens and interests.”

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📹 Footage of destruction of Ukrainian militants in Belogorovka area

Drone operators delivered precise strikes on the enemy, knocking them out of their cover.

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🇵🇸WATCH: Pro-Palestinian demonstrations take place across the world

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