🇹🇷⚡- Sarachane district of Istanbul, Turkey, right now.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Columbia University has capitulated to Trump Administration demands in order to secure federal funding. The major concessions are as follows.

> Columbia will ban masks on campus during protests
> The University will hire 36 more on campus police officers
> The Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Departments will be placed under Academic Receivership for 5 years, meaning the departments will be run by an outside group while the existing staff will be put under their control.
>The University will adopt a "position of institutional neutrality"
>The University will hire more Jewish academics for its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies in order to counter balance pro-Palestinian staff

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in Metula, northern Israel, along the border with Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Possibly a false alarm. Hezbollah has not fired into northern Israel in months.

If it is a confirmed Hezbollah projectile, this could be a turning point for the ongoing (although tenuous) ceasefire.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Sirens have not stopped in Metula.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Explosions heard in Metula. Unknown if interceptions or impacts.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hebrew channels report three Iron Dome interceptions.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Scenes from Metula, northern Israel.

Explosions - and possibly the launch of Iron Dome interceptors - are heard in the video.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hebrew channels are now stating the interceptors were launched to confront a Hezbollah drone or missile attack.

The IDF has yet to make a statement on the red alert activation.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The Upper Galilee Regional Council, which shares security administration with Metula, states that explosions were reported, but no casualties are confirmed at this time.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: The sirens in Metula were activated as a result of a projectile launch from southern Lebanon. The siren was NOT a false alarm.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The IDF confirms the interception of 3 Hezbollah missiles above Metula.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - First Hezbollah missile attack since November 2024.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hebrew channels report that 5 missiles were launched from southern Lebanon, two of which exploded in Lebanon, the other three were intercepted by Iron Dome.

Likely a medium-range rocket barrage, possibly Fajr missiles, the Iranian variant of the Russian Grad missile.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hebrew channels reporting that the IDF has begun to respond to the Metula attack across southern Lebanon. Airstrikes are expected across Lebanon shortly.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "The rocket fire from Lebanon is the first in three months and constitutes a serious violation by Hezbollah." - Galei Tzahal, IDF military outlet.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Violent Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon.