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President Trump Warns Hamas to Accept Terms for Hostage - Ceasefire Deal + President Zelensky Responds to Russian President Putin: "He can come to Kyiv" + Houthi Drone Hits Ramon Airport in S. Israel + More
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1. A drone launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels evaded Israeli air defenses and smashed into the Ramon Airport terminal in southern Israel on Sunday. The unmanned aerial vehicle struck the passenger terminal at the airport north of Eilat, causing damage, according to airport authorities.
2. President Trump Warns Hamas to Accept Terms for Hostage - Ceasefire Deal.
According to the reported proposal, Hamas would release all 48 hostages, living and dead, on day one, while Israel would release hundreds of Palestinian terrorists with blood on their hands, and thousands of other prisoners.
In addition, the IDF would call off its conquest of Gaza City and would remain outside the city, according to the report.
The two sides would engage in talks over the end of the war under the personal oversight of President Trump, and the ceasefire would continue as long as negotiations last.
3. Lebanon's cabinet on Friday welcomed a plan by the Army that would disarm Hezbollah and said the military would begin executing it, without setting a timeframe for implementation and cautioning that the Army had limited capabilities. But it said continued Israeli military operations in Lebanon would hamper the Army's progress.
4. President Zelensky Responds to Russian President Putin: "He can come to Kyiv."
5. China said Saturday that its military monitored the passage of Australian and Canadian warships through the Taiwan Strait, criticizing their presence in the sensitive waterway as “causing trouble.”
6. Marines from the 3rd Marine Division trained with the Navy/Marine Corps Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS) in recent weeks after the system arrived July 10 in Japan, the Marine Corps said.
7. The Air Force and Sierra Nevada Corporation have started flight tests on the service’s next-generation “doomsday plane.”
Flight tests for the E-4C Survivable Airborne Operations Control, or SAOC, are being held at the Aviation Innovation and Technology Center in Dayton, Ohio, the company said in a Wednesday release.