We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸/🇱🇧/🇾🇪 13th day of the war, October 19th, status update and major events:
– Airstrikes on Gaza throughout the entire day, still a huge lack of food, water, medicine and electricity.
– An Israeli airstrike nearly entirely destroyed the Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza, where civilians were taking shelter.
– Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant tells his troops: 'The order will come, you will see Gaza from the inside'.
– United States issued a 'worldwide caution' travel alert, due to possible hostility against Americans around the world in light of recent events.
– As of today, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom have called on their citizens to leave Lebanon as soon as possible.
– U.S. Bases in Syria and Iraq came under rocket fire from Iraqi Shiite militias.
– Kann announced that Israel will be evacuating its embassies in Bahrain, Jordan, Morocco, Egypt and Turkey.
– A U.S. Navy ship intercepted 3 missiles that were fired from Yemen, presumably headed towards Israel. It is widely speculated that the missiles were fired by the Iranian-backed Houthis.
– Throughout the entire day, Hezbollah carried out attacks against IDF targets across the border. ATGMs were used against Israeli tanks and radar sites, and small arms were used to destroy surveillance equipment.
– In response to these attacks, the IDF fired artillery into South Lebanon at various times during the day and carried out drone strikes against Hezbollah. The IDF also started shooting at a mixed Iranian-Lebanese film crew who approached the Israeli border, resulting in one dead Lebanese journalist, and one journalist critically injured.
– Unusual amounts of Iranian LRBM launchers of the IRGC Aerospace Force were seen moving on the Tehran-Qom highway.
– The Pentagon announced that one U.S. contractor died of a heart attack during yesterday's (October 18) attack on American bases in Iraq.
– The Israeli cabinet held another meeting which lasted for 6 hours.
– Biden held a speech in the oval office, to be honest it was uneventful.
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At his second inaugural, U.S. President Donald Trump pronounced his hope “that our recent presidential election will be remembered as the greatest and most consequential election in the history of our country.” By losing his Gulf war, Trump has achieved that goal. His choice to launch a campaign against Iran was encouraged by others, but fully his own. It has led to a reversal that marks a strategic calamity far greater than the U.S. defeat in the Vietnam War.
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