🇹🇷 🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Turkey ready to send Palestinians aid but 'very difficult' to deliver

Turkey is prepared to send humanitarian aid to Palestinians hit by the conflict centred on Gaza but it is very hard to deliver it under the current circumstances, a Turkish defence ministry official said on Thursday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-ready-send-palestinians-aid-very-difficult-deliver-2023-10-12/

https://archive.ph/XiJf2

🇮🇱🇵🇸📰 - Important to note: Haaretz an opposition leaning newspaper has been signaling for both Gvir & Smotrich to be kicked out of the war cabinet.

🇪🇬 🤝 🇵🇸 Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi:

Gaza is the issue of all Arabs, and it is important for its people to remain steadfast and present on their land.

📎 Clash Report

⚡️🇯🇴 Demands for the Jordanian government to arm the Jordanian people, and preparations to depart towards occupied Palestine tomorrow with millions of people witnessing it for the first time in Jordan towards Palestine to participate in the “Al-Aqsa Flood”.

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🇸🇦 ❌️ 🇮🇱 "The Saudis were angered at what they saw as leaks from Israel suggesting Riyadh was not seriously pursuing concessions for the Palestinians, the people said. When the conflict erupted on Saturday, the kingdom released a strongly worded statement saying it had repeatedly warned about Israeli “provocations” against the Palestinians. Prince Mohammed later told Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in a phone call that the kingdom “stands by” the Palestinians. The Saudi messaging was partly fuelled by its frustrations with Israel over the Palestinian question, said one of the people." ... MBS "finds it mind-boggling that Israelis can’t seem to understand that it is fundamentally in their interest to seek a credible framework for negotiations that could deliver lasting peace”."

https://www.ft.com/content/05328755-6990-4d00-830b-c537b078f0cc

https://archive.ph/BW411

Israeli parliament approves emergency unity government led Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Read more

🇺🇸🇩🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦🇮🇱 - Foreign ministers of Canada, Italy and Germany, as well as the US Secretary of Defense, are set to visit Israel tomorrow. - 📎 Spectator on X

NEW - EU launches first formal probe into X under new Digital Services Act over "disinformation" and "illegal content."

This is the first ever DSA probe. Failure to fully comply could result in fines up to 5% of X's daily global revenue.

This follows Elon's public squabble with EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, on X, over "compliance."

https://www.disclose.tv/id/rrhplplc0s/

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— 🇮🇷/🇱🇧 NEW: Iran's Foreign Minister has landed in Beirut

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🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Channel 14 defence correspondent: "The Israeli security establishment is preparing for a ground entry into the Gaza Strip and is waiting for the approval of the political level. If the approval is given, the Israeli defence forces are prepared to stay in Gaza for months" 📎 FYTKS on X

🇵🇸 ❌️ 🇮🇱 Hamas will ‘crush’ Israeli army if it invades Gaza: Spokesman

https://new.thecradle.co/articles/hamas-will-crush-israeli-army-if-it-invades-gaza-spokesman

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 Iranian Foreign Minister, Amir Abdollahian: If the siege and warcrimes against Gaza do not stop, the opening of other fronts is definitely a possibility

@Middle_East_Spectator

⚡️🇺🇸🇵🇸 Deployments of the United States Military, over the past 5 days.

(I would like to note this is not information I gathered myself, but that associates and friends of mine provided)

USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group Eastern Mediterran region, consists of 8 Arleigh Burke-class Destroyers, 2 Ticonderoga-class Cruisers

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (Scheduled to arrive in Naples, Italy, soon; 8 Arleigh Burke-class Destroyers, 2 Ticonderoga-class Cruisers, already has left the Port of Norfolk.

6 Squadrons of F/A-18E (Single Seater) Super Hornets (144 Aircrafts total)

2 Squadrons of F/A-18F (Double Seater) Super Hornets (48 Aircrafts total)

16 B-1B Lancers to an RAF Airbase in the U.K

32 A-10A/B Warthogs to a US Airbase in the UAE (which the UAE officially denied)

Reallocation of 101st Airborne assets from the US and Europe, up to 10,000 personnel split between Syria and Jordan

High probability of U.S SOCOM Operatives on the ground in Israel already (reported by the media, if they are not in the ground, most likely attached to Naval assets)

His comment :


"This is what I've gathered thus far based off Open Sourced info and the carrier groups. Each one's carrying 4 Super Hornet squadrons (3 E-variant or single seater Super Hornets & 1 F-variant or double seater Super Hornet squadron per carrier). Assuming 24 aircrafts per squadron, that puts each carrier at 96 Super Hornets or 192 in total"

Assuming a good chunk of the inventory remains, these two carrier strike grounds have more missiles that what the entire Black Sea fleet launched during the course of last year in Ukraine.

Each Arleigh Burke DDG fields:
• 96-cells for Missiles (Flight IIAs)
• 90-cells for Missiles (Flight Is)
• 8-cells Dedicated Anti-Ship (AShM) Launchers (Flight Is)

Between the 2 USN Carrier Groups there are:
• 4 Ticonderoga-class CGs (122-cell VLS)
• 8 Arleigh Burke-class Flight I Destroyers (90-cell VLS + 8 AShMs)
• 8 Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA Destroyers (96-cell VLS)

His comment, yet again :

Excluding the aircrafts' and their capability to launch ordinance, the 4 CGs & 16 DDGs have a combined capability of 1,976 Vertical Launch System cells (+96 Harpoon AShMs on 10 of the vessels) for missiles.
Realistically, a portion of these are devoted to Enhanced Sea-Sparrow Missiles (ESSM) for air defense along with the Standard Missile (SM) series that are multi-use missiles, realistically if we see these as a land-attack, we can see an easily 50% of these cells devoted to things such as the naval Tomahawk Cruise Missile which have a range of at minimum, 900nmi based on the Block-VB variation. In the event of all out war, the 2 American carrier groups will be able to quite literally reach as far as into Saudi Arabia and a little over a third into Syria from the Eastern Mediterranean as well as denying just about anything Egypt would try to throw over the air.

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Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani has directed the dispatch of humanitarian aid to Gaza, reaffirming Iraq's stance on the Palestinian issue. This assistance, including medical supplies, will be coordinated with Egyptian authorities in response to the recent conflict between Hamas and Israeli.

@KurdishFrontNews