🇺🇸⚡️- Donald Trump has rejected offers to attempt a bid for Speaker of the House.

🇹🇷🇸🇾⚡️- Massive Turkish airstrike campaign underway against Kurdish targets in Northern Syria.

🇻🇪🇺🇸USA and Venezuela agree to the repatriation of Venezuelans.

Venezuela activate a plan "vuelta a la patria" itself, from the US to Venezuela

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Ukraine has lost “over 90,000 people” since beginning its counteroffensive in June.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian artillery and missile strikes in Kharkov Oblast "unprecedented", largely go unrecorded due to heavy SBU scrutiny - according to an eyewitness report from the ground.

As the Ukrainian Military's reserves and flaunted Western equipment are smashed in the South, the Russians are moving with silence and efficiency in the Northeast. Limited offensive operations have been non-stop for months and progress has been steady. Infantry and all manner of Russian heavy vehicles have been clearing the forests around Kupyansk, inflicting substantial casualties on Ukrainian forces in the region. A build-up of Russian manpower is noted in the Kupyansk direction (exact figures are unknown) and across the Russian-Ukrainian border.

Will there be a major Russian offensive in Kharkov? We'll be keeping our eyes open.

🇺🇳🇻🇦 - The executive director of the UN's World Food Program presented Pope Francis with an American Indian idol known as the "priest-killer".

Hopi Indians believe that the pagan "god" sparked an uprising against Spanish rule by murdering a Franciscan friar.

🇭🇺⚡️ - Orban repealed a law allowing the importation of hundreds of thousands of migrants into Hungary, declaring that "there will be no compromise on migration".

🇺🇸 - Former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has suggested there needs to be a “formal deprogramming” of Donald Trump’s supporters, to ensure politicians in Washington are set free from their “extremism”.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️ - Palestinian groups launched a full-scale invasion of Israel, backed by a massive rocket attack.

Reports suggest that Palestinian fighters have reached both Ofakim, 12 miles from Gaza, and Sderot, 2 miles from it. Videos of Palestinian reprisals against Zionist settlers near the Gaza strip are circulating on social media.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️ - In the West Bank, Palestinian youth attacked IDF vehicles, but an armed uprising on the scale of what is currently taking place in Gaza has not yet occured, despite Hamas' declarations that the "typhoon" which started in Gaza would continue there.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️ - Netanyahu, according to the Jerusalem Post, plans to declare war on every Palestinian group involved in today's uprising.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️ - IDF issue a statement, the main takeaways from which are:
- "Major operations" against Hamas in and around Gaza
- 10,000 reservists will be called up
- "An escalation" on Israel's front with Lebanon will take place.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️ - Hamas call for pan-Arab intervention against Israel, making specific reference to "the Islamic resistance in Lebanon" (Hezbollah).

🇵🇸🇮🇱 - Palestinian youth capture an IDF military vehicle and drive around in it, chanting "Salute to the Izzedin al-Qassam Brigades!"

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️ - The IDF have announced that so-called "anti-terrorist" operations against Hamas have begun - one of our partner channels claims they bombed the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza.

The operations against Hamas will be known as "Operation Iron Swords".

🇵🇸🇮🇱 - Hamas claims to have captured 35 Israelis, both military and civilian, so far.

Given that videos of Israeli civilians being shot by Palestinians have been circulating over the last few minutes, it is probable Israeli losses are far higher than that number.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 - "Today is the day of battle and your enemy [Israel] is weaker than a spider's web" - Hamas statement to Arabs in the West Bank and within Israel's 1967 borders.