An Israeli drone struck Saturday a pickup truck deep in Lebanese territory, official media in Lebanon said, after weeks of skirmishes mainly limited to border areas since the Israel-Hamas war began. | Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) said "an enemy drone targeted a pickup truck" on a farmland in the Zahrani area on Lebanon's coast, some 45 kilometers from the Israeli border, without reporting any casualties. Media reports said the pickup was targeted in a banana grove and that the driver escaped unharmed. ● Israel's army meanwhile said that a drone had bombed a "launchpad" from which missiles were fired at an Israeli drone overnight, in possible reference to the Zahrani truck incident.

■ Lebanese Resistance Fighters Fully Prepared For ‘Israeli’ Aggression - Hezbollah Officer (AlahedNews)
■ Sayyed Nasrallah: Field Will Talk, Victory is Inevitably Coming (AlahedNews)
■ ‘What we are doing in Gaza we can also do in Beirut’ – Israel (RT.com)
■ Israel's Gallant warns Hezbollah that Beirut could face similar fate to Gaza (Naharnet/AFP)

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said he will formally bring war crime charges against Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his regime’s ongoing bloodshed in the besieged Gaza Strip. | Petro said on X on Thursday that his foreign minister Alvaro Leyva would meet with the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court [ICC] on Friday to formally prosecute Netanyahu over “the massacre of the Palestinian people’s children and civilians he has caused.” ● The ‘Tel Aviv’ regime waged the war on the impoverished Gaza Strip on October 7 after Palestinian resistance groups launched the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Flood into the ‘Israeli’-occupied Palestinian territories in response to the Zionist regime’s intensified crimes against the Palestinian people. ● Since then, the occupying regime has embarked on an incessant bombardment of the densely-populated enclave, with the Gaza-based health ministry announcing on Friday that 11,078 people, including 4,506 children, have been martyred, and 27,490 others have sustained injuries.

■ West's guilt, aid to Gaza. What leaders said at Riyadh summit (TASS)

39 premature babies and children who were administered to the intensive care unit at Al-Shifa Hospital are facing death. | The spokesperson for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf al-Qudra, confirmed, on Sunday, that the Israeli occupation is targeting everything moving around Al-Shifa Hospital. Al-Qudra added that the Israeli occupation has turned Al-Shifa Hospital into "an open war zone," describing the situation as "catastrophic". ● The spokesperson for the Ministry of Health reported that two premature infants and an ICU patient died after the hospital had completely lost power as the last generator ran out of fuel, expecting more to die unless action is taken.

■ Day 37: Israeli Crimes against Gaza Hospitals Proceed as Resistance Stands Firm (Al Manar TV)(VIDEOS)
■ 36 Days of Aggression: Hospitals Bombed and Displaced People Targeted in Gaza Genocide (Al Manar TV)
■ Patients Losing Lives As ‘Israeli’ Forces Attack Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital (Alahed News)
■ Jordan airdrops humanitarian aid for Gaza field hospital (TASS)
■ UN says several Gaza hospitals ‘directly hit’ (Iran Front Page)
■ Hospitals in Gaza Become Targets, Lives Lost in Tragic Act of Aggression (Al Manar TV)

In an unprecedented display of global solidarity, demonstrations reverberated across an astounding 77 countries, spanning from the Arab world to Europe, the Americas, and Asia. | From the West Bank in Palestine to the heart of Europe, including nations like Sweden, Italy, France, and beyond, millions took to the streets to denounce the genocides of the Zionist entity and passionately call for an immediate ceasefire. ● The sheer scale of these marches marked a historic moment, signaling the first time such widespread unity had been witnessed in support of the Palestinians under attack in the Gaza Strip. Voices resonated from the Middle East, with Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, Somalia, Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh standing in solidarity. Meanwhile, the rallying cries echoed through the Asia-Pacific region, including the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea, as well as Africa, represented by Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa.

Dmitry Medvedev (Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council) | Europe is seething. In the streets, hundreds of thousands of people are protesting against cynical Western support for violence in Gaza. To the tune of much Middle Eastern bloodshed, some current and former NATO officials are carefully throwing out new ideas about Ukraine. They say it should be admitted to the Alliance, but without Crimea and Donbass. So, these territories are definitely not Ukraine in their understanding. Not bad, but it is important to move on.

■ It is necessary to recognize that Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kiev and practically everything else is not Ukraine. After that, there's only three steps to recognizing the obvious:

  ● Zelensky, who is not going to the polls, is NOT the president, but a usurper.
  ● Ukrainian is NOT a language, but a vernacular.
  ● Ukraine is NOT a country, but artificially assembled territories.

■ What then is to be admitted to NATO, you ask. Well, you can accept the city of Lemberg with its surroundings (still Lviv region), if they insist on it. ● Or we can even go for more, expanding once again the criteria for membership in the Alliance. We could invite Israel and Palestine to join the Alliance, turning eternal enemies into allies. And Afghanistan on top of that. The NATO troops have been sitting there for twenty years for nothing. That's when enlightened democracy will reign in the Middle East in the Anglo-Saxon way. And complete happiness will come.

■ Ex-NATO chief wants Ukraine to join without lost territories (RT.com)
■ Former NATO chief suggests Ukraine joins bloc without lost territory (TASS)
■ Scott Ritter: Time for US to Dump Zelensky (Sputnik News)

Over 730,000 of the arrivals are children, most of whom came to the country with their relatives, Vassily Nebenzia has said | [...] Nebenzia stated Russia has received 730,000 children from Ukraine and Donbass, which has been systematically targeted by Kiev’s artillery since 2014, while rebuffing Western and Ukrainian claims that Russia had been “abducting” minors. 💬 “The overwhelming majority of these children arrived with their parents or other relatives,” he said, adding that only 2,000 of them came from orphanages in Russia’s Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, accompanied by educators from their institutions. According to Nebenzia, only 358 children were placed in families on a temporary basis. “There is no talk of adoptions,” he stressed, reiterating Russia’s long-standing position that those children would be returned to their relatives immediately upon request. 💬 “Nevertheless, Western countries purposefully inflate this situation and try to present it as a problem,” the diplomat noted, accusing the West of failing to address the fact that more than 23,000 Ukrainian children have moved unaccompanied to European countries. “There is no system of registration and assistance to this category of persons. Nevertheless, this state of affairs is no longer presented in the West as forced displacement or deportation of children without parental consent, but as their salvation from the horrors of war,” Nebenzia said.