🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- President Trump held a phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky to discuss sanctions on Russia, and increased US-Ukraine defense cooperation.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will hold a small cabinet meeting followed by an expanded cabinet meeting, before approving the Gaza annexation plan.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- According to Kan11, Israeli Chief of Staff Zamir, along with Defense Minister Katz and Strategic Minister Dermer have opposed Netanyahu's Gaza annexation plan.

Katz and Dermer offered an alternative, to occupy the central camps only and instead encircle Gaza city.

Zamir opposed both plans.

🇬🇧🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- British recon aircrafts operating over the Gaza Strip to help locate Israeli hostages ahead of the anticipated Israeli annexation of the entire strip, Israel Hayom reports.

🇹🇭🇸🇪⚡- Thailand's government has approved the purchase of additional Swedish multirole Gripen fighter jets.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- The Indian military is now denying an exchange of fire took place along the Line of Control, Kashmir, after initially accusing Pakistan of violating the ceasefire.

🇱🇧⚡- Lebanon's cabinet meeting on the disarmament of non-state actors has ended, lasting over 3 hours.

The decision has been postponed until the next session, held next week Thursday.

Correction: Other Lebanese media report the session is ongoing.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: "Whoever doesn't like it can resign," - Benjamin Netanyahu, quoted by Israel Hayom, an outlet with close ties to the Prime Minister.

The statements, which came during the limited security meeting held earlier today, threatened his long-time close political allies Katz and Dermer!

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: "Russia is considering a limited air truce with Ukraine, halting drone and missile strikes as a 'goodwill gesture' to Trump, while continuing the war. The move aims to ease pressure from potential US sanctions," - Bloomberg.

🇱🇧⚡- The Lebanese cabinet session has ended with Prime Minister Nawaf Salam tasking the Lebanese military in developing a disarmament plan of non-state actors by the end of the year. Discussions will continue until the next cabinet session scheduled Thursday next week.

Hezbollah and Amal ministers allegedly left the meeting abruptly, before it had ended.

🇺🇸🇱🇧⚡- Reuters reports the Lebanese Ministry of Information has requested the army to submit a plan this month on the disarmament of non-state actors, which falls within the US 30-day deadline.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Financial Times reports that President Trump plans to sanction Russia's shadow fleet if no ceasefire in Ukraine is reached by Friday.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "President Trump proposes US-led reconstruction of Gaza, funded mostly by America, on the condition that Hamas withdraws from power," - Israeli Channel 12.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli assassination strikes against a vehicle in the Bekaa region, Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Scenes from the Baalbek road at the Brital intersection, Bekaa region, eastern Lebanon.

🇺🇸🇱🇧⚡- The US advises its citizens from travelling to Lebanon.

🇺🇸🌒 - NASA confirms they plan to install a small nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030 as part of their ambition to install a permanent base aimed at scientific research

— 🇮🇶 A massive land of orchards belonging to leader(s) and commander(s) of the PMF (Popular Mobilization Forces) in Salah Ad-Din province on the Hamrin Mountains was set ablaze by unknown men.

— The perpetrators were likely Islamic State terrorists or previous (likely Sunni?) owners of the land.

🇨🇿 | @czaktuality

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump wants his successor to be JD Vance as President with Marco Rubio as VP.

🇷🇺🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed a vehicle belonging to the Russian mission was targeted by Israel in the Palestinian Authority. The ministry says it has raised the incident with Tel Aviv.

🇸🇩🇮🇷🇦🇿⚡- Rapid Support Forces, RSF, claim to have found Azerbaijani weapons and firearms being used by the Sudanese Armed Forces.

Despite the Iran-Azerbaijan disagreements in the Middle East, both have been strong supporters of Khartoum against the UAE-backed RSF. The US Treasury had previously sanctioned the Hong Kong based Portex Trade Limited, an Iranian arms shadow company that shipped UAVs and other military equipment to Sudan's Defense Industries System, DIS, via the Azerbaijan route.

Note, DIS is operated by Ahmed Abdalla, a Sudanese-Ukrainian dual citizen, who had previously worked with Ukraine's GUR.