🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- People raise the flag of Hamas across the West Bank, including south of Bethlehem, Nahalin and Ramallah.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇪🇬⚡- Axios reports Iran has been invited to attend the Sharm El-Sheikh summit in Egypt for the Hamas-Israel peace deal, which will also be attended by President Trump and France's Macron.

🇪🇬⚡- At least 20 countries are scheduled to participate in next week's Sharm El-Sheikh summit in Egypt.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇷🇺⚡- The US is considering banning and sanctioning Chinese airlines which fly over Russian territory to the US because they hold an unfair advantage over American airlines.

🇬🇹🇭🇹⚡- Guatemala, which is currently in the midst of battling major gangs and cartels on its own territory, is preparing to send a military contingent to join gang suppression efforts in Haiti.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Afghanistan - Pakistan negotiations have begun.

🇪🇬🇶🇦 - Correction: Three Qatari Amiri Diwan staff members were killed in the car accident in Sharm El-Sheikh; they were not diplomats or part of the delegation.

Two other staff members are receiving medical care.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡️- Afghanistan says they killed 58 Pakistani soldiers, wounded 30, and captured 25 Pakistan army outposts over night, as a response to repeated violations of their territory and airspace.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Hamas informed Israel they have 20 living hostages they are ready to hand over today.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Pakistani airstrikes against Kandahar, a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan, moments ago.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Pakistan claims to have captured 21 border posts from the Afghan Taliban, and have admitted to at least 23 military losses.

🏳️🇵🇰 - While both sides claim significant control over the other, currently evidence suggests Pakistan is the only side to have advanced.

Pakistani military, with evidence, captured at least 6 (of the 21 claimed) Afghan Taliban sites, including the strategic Topsar Observation Post, which is shown in the footage.

🏳️🇵🇰 - Note: Taliban media are circulating videos of themselves and Tahreek-e-Taliban some 10-15km within Pakistan, claiming the territory as captured.

This is incorrect, most of the territory was never under Pakistani military control in the first place, and were ongoing military operation zones, hence were grey-zones.

🏳️🇵🇰 - Pakistani artillery shelling along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

🇵🇭🇨🇳⚡- BREAKING: A Chinese vessel has rammed into a Philippines vessel near the disputed Thitu Island, South China Sea.

🇵🇭🇨🇳⚡- Footage by the Philippines Coast Guard shows the incident off Thitu Island, South China Sea.

The island is currently under Philippine military control, but has changed hands a few times this year.

🇵🇭🇨🇳⚡- China's point-of-view of the ramming near Thitu Island, South China Sea.

🇮🇱⚡- "Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Bahrain have strengthened their military cooperation with Israel since the start of the war," - The Washington Post.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "China defended its new export controls on rare earths as a 'legitimate' measure under international law, pushing back against U.S. accusations of economic coercion after Washington announced sweeping retaliatory tariffs and export restrictions," - CNBC.

🇵🇭🇨🇳⚡- China has defended its aggressive actions near Thitu Island, saying they were defending against Philippine's attempts at "occupying all of Sandy Cay."

Note, Sandy Cay is adjacent to Thitu Island, Thitu is currently under Philippine military control.