🇮🇱🇯🇴🇪🇬 — Israeli Energy Minister:

Gas deals make Egypt and Jordan connected to us, and in simple terms, we hold the switch.

🇸🇾🗳— Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa formally ratifies the temporary electoral system for the People's Assembly.

➡️ The High Committee will begin implementing the procedures tomorrow, showing a significant step in Syrian democracy.

🇸🇩❌🇸🇩 — Massive convoy of SAF trucks ambushed by RSF forces in Kordofan region

➡️A convoy of around 40 armored trucks belonging to the Baraa bin Malik legion of the SAF was completely destroyed in an ambush carried out by RSF fighters. Casualties are reported to be high.

➡️Summary executions were carried out by RSF fighters on every survivor, and the Baraa bin Malik legion announced the death of their second in command in Kordofan, Muhnad Ibrahim Fadl.

🇦🇪🤝🇮🇱 — A UAE military cargo plane landed at an Israeli military base.

🇱🇧❌🇵🇸🇵🇸 — Circulating reports of the Lebanese army arresting a Fatah official in Lebanon, Shadi Al-Far, and two others from the Venezia Hotel.

➡️This came a few weeks after the Lebanese government has discussed disarming the Palestinian refugee camps.

🇸🇾🇮🇱🇸🇾 — Just a few hours after the direct Israeli-Syrian meeting in Paris regarding the situation in Suwieda, the Syrian government and the bedouin tribes have withdrew from 38 towns in the Suweida governance and are currently positioned outside of it, according to Sky News.

🇪🇬❌🇵🇸 — Egyptian embassy staff members in New York kidnapped a pro Palestine protestor which forced th US police to enter the building and pull him out.

🇱🇧❌🇵🇸 — Lebanese Al-Jadeed Newspaper:

The process of handing over Palestinian weapons from the Burj al-Barajneh camp to the Lebanese army begins today, and meanwhile, communications are taking place between the army and those concerned in the camp to start the implementation steps.

⚡️🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 - The IDF's COGAT and Liaison Administration has issued "initial" warnings to the Gazan Medical facilities, authorities and International humanitarian organizations in northern Gaza on Tuesday, the 19th of August, ahead of the incoming "Gideon's Chariot B" major offensive and annexation attempt.

The warnings order the facilities to prepare the civilian population for mass displacement and evacuation towards southern Gaza.

📝 IDF transcripts state, COGAT officers were heard saying during the warnings [click to expand]:

» I am speaking with you about the possibility of the army entering Gaza City, there will be a full evacuation from Gaza to the southern Strip.

»This requires you to prepare a plan for transferring medical equipment from north to south, so that you can provide care for all patients in the southern Strip and prepare the hospitals to receive patients coming from the north.

» It is important to us that you receive this from an official source. We are going to provide you with a place to be, whether it is a field hospital or any other hospital.

🇮🇱🤝🇱🇧 — The Lebanese state returned the Israeli citizen, Saleh Abu Hussein, who was detained last year in Lebanon for spying for Israel and is reportedly a member of the Mista'arvim unit.

🇮🇱🇪🇬 — A few weeks ago, the IDF held exercises on the Jordanian-Israeli [right red rectangle] southern borders simulating a sudden large scale multi-front invasion into Israel.

➡️The IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir ordered a surprise inspection of the military’s top headquarters to test their readiness.

➡️Several Egyptian pages raised concerns about the drills, suggesting that they might have been conducted with Egypt in mind, given the similar terrain and border length [left red rectangle].