🇮🇱⚡- Appointing Sa'ar will be a death sentence for the kidnapped – Channel 12, anti-Likud media.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The occupying entity aimed, through the assassination of Commander Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, to drag us into a regional war. We have exercised self-restraint but also reserve the right to respond in the appropriate manner and time," – Masoud Pezeshkian, President of Iran.

🇷🇺🇰🇿🇩🇪⚡- "Russia is militarily invincible. Further escalation will lead to irreparable consequences," – Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Kazakhstan's President, said at a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Defense Minister Yoav Galant is now meeting with Amos Hochstein, US Special Envoy to Israel, in a last ditch attempt to prevent a significant escalation in the north. The assessment in Israel is that the chance of a settlement in Lebanon, without a ceasefire in Gaza, is slim – Channel 12, anti-Likud media.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Borki, Kursk region, Russia.

Russian Special Forces Brigade, Arbat, pushed the Ukrainians out of the church, which was Ukraine's last remaining stronghold in the town.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have advanced in Kamyanskoe, Zaporozhye direction.

After a pause of 18 months in the city, fighting has resumed. Russian forced advanced 1,800 meters capturing a series of Ukrainian trenches. UAV footage confirms the advance.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces advanced 2,000 meters west of the Seversky-Donetsk-Donbass Canal – Kostianinovka direction.

Russian troops have captured a large section of the forest, at 48.54591, 37.86644, west of the Canal and Klishcheevka.

Russian forces are now less than 1,500 meters from Stupochki and 7,300 meters from Kostianinovka.

🇺🇲🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Gallant has changed his position on a possible war in the north, telling US Special Envoy, Amos Hochstein, during their meeting: "The only way to return the residents of the north - military action" – Daphne Lial, Israeli journalist working for Channel 12, anti-Likud media.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "US envoy Hochstein told Gallant that a large-scale battle against Lebanon will not return the prisoners and will expose Israel to danger." -Israel Channel 12, anti-Likud outlet.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Israeli Defense Minister Gallant has informed US envoy Hochstein that Israel has decided to "wage war against Hezbollah." -Channel 12, anti-Likud outlet.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "Tonight, the cabinet will decide either the south or the north." -Amit Segal, correspondent for Channel 12, anti-Likud outlet.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- US envoy Hochstein to depart Israel, leaving with consensus from the political and military leadership of the country on a military operation against Hezbollah.

🇺🇸⚡️- "The investigation into the attempted assassination of Trump is ongoing and additional charges may be brought against the suspect," -NBC News

🇮🇱⚡- Prime Minister Netanyahu has for the first time publicly referenced Sa'ar since the rumors began, saying "expanding the war coalition will help reach a deal".

🇮🇱⚡- Protests outside Sa'ar's house – Channel 12.

🇺🇸🇳🇪⚡️- The US has officially completed its troop withdrawal from Niger

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Rocket interceptions near Ramot Naftali in northern Israel

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "Netanyahu told Hochstein that Israel appreciates Washington's position but will do what is necessary to return residents to the north" -Yedioth Ahronoth, centrist anti-Likud outlet.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The leader of the far-right Haredi political party Shas, Aryeh Deri, has arrived at Kirya to join the cabinet meeting on Lebanon

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli airstrikes against Taybeh, central Lebanon

🇺🇸⚡️- Martin County Sheriff William Snyder has suggested at a press conference that Ryan Wesley Routh, the attempted assassin of Trump, may be part of a "larger conspiracy" against Trump