🇮🇱 Israel will amend a 2016 counterterrorism law to give the state government the right to designate individual individuals as terrorists, according to a joint statement issued Sunday by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Justice Minister Yariv Levin.

The new amendments will strengthen administrative measures that can be used against terrorists and terrorist organizations, and are aimed at solving problems related to recruitment, financing and money transactions for terrorist purposes, the statement added.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Latest updates on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict:

▪️Israel strikes near Al-Quds hospital in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Ministry stated.

▪️Israel reportedly reopened the second water pipeline to the Gaza Strip.

▪️The United States demands that weapons transferred to Israel be used under the "laws of war" to protect civilians from attacks, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan stated.

▪️Turkey will label Israel a “war criminal” for its actions in Gaza, Erdogan says.

▪️The Czech defense minister calls for the country's withdrawal from the UN over the Gaza ceasefire resolution.

▪️50,000 Australians marched in Melbourne today in support of Palestine.

▪️Israel will amend the law to designate individuals as terrorists, the authorities stated.

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🇷🇺 Call sign Matryona, a female medic serving in the assault corps of the Skiff Battalion (BARS-35), described her experience surviving an attack by a Ukrainian kamikaze drone.

💬 "I was evacuating the wounded from the front lines in this vehicle when a kamikaze drone struck us as we approached the hospital. I got shrapnel in my eye and suffered a concussion… It was hard to get myself together at first... But then we kept moving, taking the fighters to the hospital for further evacuation," the medic said.

The Ukrainian kamikaze drone took the life of one of the soldiers and inflicted severe injuries on another three. Even after sustaining injuries herself, Matryona displayed remarkable courage by providing aid to her comrades in need.

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🇮🇱 Israel reconsidered its original plan regarding a ground assault targeting Hamas in Gaza after receiving advice from American officials, including Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin, a US report has claimed. The initial blueprint for an Israeli ground invasion of Gaza to go after Hamas ostensibly left US officials “alarmed.”

Subsequent brainstorming between the two allies prompted Israel to refrain from a full-scale invasion of the enclave in the wake of Hamas’ attack on October 7, US sources were cited as saying.

As a result of “war planning” between Israel and top US officials, the IDF was prompted to embark upon “more limited ground incursions” into Gaza, in line with a “phased” approach, as per the report.

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🇨🇳🇪🇺 Chinese EVs’ foray into European market has unexpected knock-on effects

China’s highly cost-competitive electric vehicles are rapidly capturing market share in Europe, leaving local producers in the dust and scrambling to demand subsidies or some kind of trade restrictions. But the cars themselves are only part of the problem, with European metal makers making aluminum for use in the vehicles also taking a hit. Find out more here.

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The French football championship match Marseille - Lyon was canceled due to an attack on the guests' bus, media reported.

Lyon head coach Fabio Grosso was injured. When the team was traveling to the stadium, the bus was struck with stones, glass was broken; Grosso was hit in the face by shrapnel.

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🇺🇸 The number of illegal border crossers reached a whopping 10 million during Joe Biden's presidential tenure, a US conservative website has claimed, citing official US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reports and "gotaway" data.

Meanwhile, CBP data, released on Friday, indicated that US immigration enforcement released over 900,000 migrants into the country in fiscal 2023 alone. The border issue is creating additional pressure on Biden's presidential campaign, which has seen his approval rating slide to its lowest point. Joe's overall approval has fallen to 37%, according to a recent Gallup poll.

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The airport in the southwestern Russian city of Makhachkala was shuttered on Sunday night after a crowd of protesters swarmed the tarmac, Russia's federal aviation agency Rosaviatsiya said.

The Russian Interior Ministry's regional office said a criminal probe had been launched into the incident on accusations of rioting. Those inciting riots and inciting ethnic hatred will be held criminally liable, the ministry added. The Dagestan authorities said they would limit traffic on the highway leading to the airport.

Police promptly took the situation under control, the Dagestan government said on social media shortly after the security breach was reported. All trespassers were removed from the runway.

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US rejection of geopolitical realism makes world even more dangerous than it was during Cuban Crisis

This week marked another anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the October 1962 standoff between the USSR and the USA which nearly triggered a global nuclear war. Why are the tensions between Moscow and Washington in today’s world potentially even more dangerous than they were even the dark days of October 1962?

Sputnik spoke to a leading Russian US politics expert and a Canadian military historian to find out

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Retired US General Robert Adams sounded a note of pessimism early Sunday when asked by US media for his thoughts on Israel’s ongoing military action in the besieged Gaza Strip.

“I think it’s going to be what I would consider nearly impossible, to destroy Hamas, to eliminate their capability to do harm to Israel and Israeli people, while simultaneously protecting what some people have estimated as to be a million Palestinians who are in harm’s way and they can’t get out of harm’s way,” said Adams in an interview on US television.

Adams also noted the difficulty of Israel’s objective given the complex urban terrain of Gaza.

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