🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡️- Russian airstrikes have escalated in the Hama direction in the past hour.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Violent Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon reported.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Scenes from southern Lebanon.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "Israel is playing a dangerous game in recent days." - Senior Biden administration official to Axios.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media report that the Israeli Defense Ministry has approved massive, forceful attacks across Lebanon in response to the Shebaa Farms incident.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: The Israel Defense Forces confirms that it has begun striking "terror targets across Lebanon." The ceasefire is de facto over, at this point.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "If the hostages are not released prior to the date that I proudly assume Office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against humanity. Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America," - Donald Trump, US President-elect.

🇸🇾⚡- Visual confirmation, Suran, Hama direction, has fallen to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!" - President-elect Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡️- "Our policy in Syria has not changed. We consider Assad a brutal dictator whose hands are stained with the blood of innocents." - US State Department.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Red alert sirens in the settlement of Lehavot HaBashan, northern Galilee, near the Israeli border with Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli drones are head loitering above Beirut, the capital of Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The IDF reports a false identification in this sector.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have recaptured the Zabalka district over Toretsk, including the two waste heaps.

🇸🇾⚡- Violent clashes between Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and the Syrian Arab Army in Braideej, Hama direction, just south of Kernaz.

🇮🇷⚡- "Iran may feel that the only way to protect itself is to rush to make a nuclear bomb," - New York Times.

🇸🇾⚡- "The terrorists are carrying out a fierce media campaign led by the Great Satan, America, the terrorist. The fierce media campaign targets the control of the Syrian state north of Deir Ezzor, and their false observatories broadcast news that the SDF, led by the American occupation forces, is preparing to occupy villages. There is no truth to the news," - Deir ez-Zor Channel 1, pro-Assad outlet.

🇸🇾⚡- "The Syrian Arab Army units maintain their positions and are deployed in all villages. The circulating news falls within the framework of the fierce media war practiced by terrorist organizations, coinciding with their terrorist attack on northern Syria," - Deir ez-Zor Channel 1, pro-Assad outlet.

🇸🇾⚡- "The Arab Tribal Aemy renewed their support for the heroes of the Syrian Arab Army and their readiness to send supplies at any time," - Deir ez-Zor Channel 1, pro-Assad outlet.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli drones continue operating over Beirut at very low altitude.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian drones launched from Crimea, heading towards Odessa/Nikolaiv. Another group of drones were launched from Russian-controlled Kherson, heading north, towards the Dnepr region.