🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israel has raised its navy's state of alert as the Global Sumud Flotilla approaches Palestinian waters. Israeli jets and vessels have been deployed to the disputed water-spaces.

🇺🇸⚡️- As of six hours ago, the federal government has shut down for the first time in six years.

🇺🇸🇪🇸⚡- USS Gerald R. Ford and its carrier strike group have passed Gibraltar and have entered the Mediterranean Sea.

The group is being escorted by Spanish military vessels.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- 4 or 5 Hamas rockets were launched at Israel from northern Gaza, an area already under IDF control.

Three have intercepted, the other projectiles landed in open area.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Scenes from southern Israel showing the interceptions of Hamas projectiles.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Confirmed: Five Hamas rockets were fired from Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, an area that has been under Israeli control for months.

🏳️⚡- The Taliban government denies blocking the internet in the country, saying the "fiber optic cables are worn out and are being replaced."

The internet has slowly begun being restored, beginning in the south of the country.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 - The Global Convoy of Steadfastness (Global Sumud Flotilla) in numbers:

- 47 civilian vessels in total.
- 497 participants from 48 countries.
- Turkey being the largest participant, with 56 volunteers.
- Just 9 participants from the ENTIRE Middle East's Arab world, surprisingly 0 from Egypt, showing a complete lack of interest.
- Strongest interest comes from the western European region.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Israeli forces have completed the complete capture of the Netzarim Corridor, effectively cutting the Gaza Strip in half.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The Israeli army has at this hour completed control of the Netzarim axis to the Gaza Sea coast, thus dividing the Gaza Strip into two parts – north and south.

This will tighten the siege around Gaza City, and anyone leaving it southward will be forced to pass through Israeli army checkpoints," - Israel Gatz, Israeli Defense Minister.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes against the Sabra district of south Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "In support of the United Nations Security Council snapback of Iran sanctions, Treasury is targeting Iranian weapons procurement networks that help maintain its ballistic missile and military aircraft programs.

The Iranian regime’s backing of terrorist proxies and its pursuit of nuclear weapons threatens the security of the Middle East, the United States, and our allies around the world. Under President Trump’s leadership, we will deny the regime weapons it would use to further its malign objectives," - Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Iran's Supreme National Security Council directed officials to designate successors to ensure continuity in case of war," - Institute for the Study of War, US Think Tank.

🇨🇳⚡- China has begun construction of its fourth aircraft carrier, Type-004, with a capacity of 100 fixed-wing aircrafts.

It's scheduled for completion by 2030.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- At least two Israeli helicopters have entered As Suwaida region's airspace in southern Syria.