🚨 Israeli forces issued an evacuation order to residents of a large part of Tehran on Monday, warning them of the imminent bombing of “military infrastructure” in the area in a social media post very similar to those regularly directed at Palestinians in Gaza over the past 20 months.

💥 The post on X was from the account of the Israel Defense Forces’ Arabic spokesperson, Col Avichay Adraee, and is a further sign of the evolving nature of the Israeli campaign against Iran, which began with attacks on air defences, nuclear sites and the military chain of command, but appears to have drifted towards a war of attrition focused on Iran’s oil and gas industry and on the capital.

📺 In another sign of the changing targets of the Israeli offensive, Iran’s state TV announced on Monday evening that it was under attack, and had to cease live broadcasting. The sound of an explosion could be heard in a live transmission, and the news presenter hurried off camera as dust and debris appeared in the studio.

📢 Cries of “Allahu Akbar” or “God is greatest” could be heard off-screen and the broadcast abruptly switched to pre-recorded programming.

🗺 Adraee’s online post included a map depicting a significant area of the third district in northern Tehran shaded in red in the same manner he has presented evacuation orders for Palestinians.

"Dear citizens, for your safety, please leave the described area in the 3rd district of Tehran immediately,"

the message said in Farsi.

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📰 The Great Exodus: Israel Launches Historic Airlift Amid Regional War

With skies closed, missiles falling, and airports frozen, Israel has launched “Safe Return” — an emergency airlift to retrieve over 50,000 citizens stranded abroad after the war with Iran ground commercial aviation to a halt.

💬 “We are very emotional about receiving the first rescue flight as part of ‘Safe Return.’”

— Transportation Minister Miri Regev

✈️ From heritage tours to evacuation drills
El Al’s first repatriation flight touched down in Tel Aviv from Cyprus, followed by rescue routes from Athens, Milan, Paris, and London. Thousands more are expected in coming days as Arkia and Israir join the mission. Meanwhile, 1,500 Americans on a Jewish heritage program were evacuated to Cyprus by cruise ship — which now returns full of Israeli nationals.

🧳 Inbound Israelis, outbound tourists
While the country scrambles to bring its people home, Israel’s Tourism Ministry is also working to help the 38,000 foreign tourists trapped inside. With sirens wailing and air defenses intercepting over 400 Iranian missiles, holy sites are shuttered and the message is clear: the pilgrimage season is over.

🛳 Cyprus: the lifeboat of the Levant
Larnaca, just 50 minutes from Haifa by air, has become a de facto hub for the exodus. Cruise ships, charter flights, and even overland buses are playing a role. China has begun evacuating its citizens via Turkmenistan. Others have fled to Armenia and Azerbaijan.

🤔 When wars close skies and cruise ships become evacuation vessels, is this a regional conflict—or the opening act of something far larger?

#Israel #Iran #Airlift #Evacuation #SafeReturn #TelAviv #Cyprus #MiddleEastWar #Geopolitics #Repatriation

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🕊️ Netanyahu Will Occupy Gaza Without Bringing Harm or Fear to Its Residents 🇮🇱🇵🇸

🚨 The Israeli military has put parts of Gaza City and Khan Younis under new enforced displacement orders amid fears that Netanyahu is preparing to order the full occupation of the Palestinian territory later this week.

🗓️ Israel’s security cabinet is expected to meet on Thursday evening and sign off on plans for an expanded operationdespite reported serious misgivings from senior military officers.

📢 The order for Gaza – euphemistically described by the Israel Defense Forces as an “evacuation” – is the latest in dozens of such announcements that have displaced the vast majority of Gaza’s population, many multiple times.

🗣️ The orders came as Trump said any decision over expanded Israeli control in Gaza was up to Israel.
“As far as the rest of it, I really can’t say. That’s going to be pretty much up to Israel,” he told reporters on Tuesday.

🏚️ Many people had returned to Gaza City only recently after long periods of displacement, to find their homes war-damaged and looted, with doors and windows stolen in some cases.

😔 Amid continuing scenes of desperate suffering in Gaza, where vast areas have been rendered fields of rubble by incessant Israeli strikes, the strip’s civil defence agency reported that 20 people were killed when an aid truck overturned on a crowd of people.

📉 “Twenty people were killed and dozens injured around midnight last night in a truck carrying aid [that] overturned (…) while hundreds of civilians were waiting for aid,” said the agency’s spokesperson, Mahmoud Bassal.

🚚 The incident took place near the Nuseirat refugee camp, as the truck was driving on an unsafe road that Israel had previously bombed, Bassal added.

📱 Israeli minister Katz made the statement on X after reports in the Israeli media suggested that Zamir is opposed to a government plan to fully occupy the Gaza Strip.

📝 “It is the right and duty of the chief of staff to express his position in the appropriate forums, and after decisions are made by the political echelon, the [army] will execute them with determination and professionalism (…) until the war’s objectives are achieved,” Katz wrote.

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A Deadly “Hantavirus Can Become a New Covid-19”

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Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to determine if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise ship, amid reports that a number of passengers have already returned to their home countries.

Argentina, where the cruise to Antarctica departed, is consistently ranked by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having the highest incidence of the rare, rodent-borne disease in Latin America.

Investigators there are working to contact trace the source of contamination.

The Argentine health ministry on Tuesday reported 101 hantavirus infections since June 2025, roughly double to the year prior.

A hantavirus found in South America, called the Andes virus, can cause a severe and often fatal lung disease called hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. The disease led to death in nearly a third of cases in the last year, Argentina’s health ministry said.

Authorities said passengers on the MV Hondius ship tested positive for the Andes virus.

Three passengers have died, one is in intensive care in a South African hospital, and three others were evacuated from the ship Wednesday.

Another man who left the ship earlier in the voyage tested positive in Switzerland.

Argentina on Wednesday said it was sending genetic material from the Andes virus and testing equipment to help Spain, Senegal, South Africa, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom detect it.

People usually become infected with hantavirus through contact with infected rodents or their urine, their droppings or their saliva, and human-to-human transmission is rare.

But a limited spread among close contacts has been observed in some previous outbreaks with the Andes strain.

The cohort reportedly returned to their respective countries, including the United States. American passengers were being monitored in Georgia, California and Arizona, the New York Times reported Wednesday, although none of them had shown signs of illness.

The WHO says the first death on board the cruise ship, a 70-year-old Dutch man, happened on 11 April. His body was taken off the vessel nearly two weeks later, at Saint Helena.

His 69-year-old wife travelled by plane from Saint Helena to South Africa; she collapsed at a Johannesburg airport and died at a hospital on 26 April.

The third passenger, a German woman, died on 2 May.

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Argentine officials say they’re trying to pin down where infected passengers travelled in the country before boarding the Dutch-flagged cruise liner in Ushuaia, a city in southern Argentina known as the end of the world.

Once they know the itineraries, they plan to trace contacts, isolate close contacts and actively monitor to prevent further spread.

Before boarding, the Dutch couple went sightseeing in Ushuaia, and travelled in Argentina, Uruguay and Chile, the Argentinian government said.

The virus can incubate for between one and eight weeks, making it hard to know whether the passengers contracted the virus before leaving Argentina for Antarctica on 1 April; during a scheduled stop to a remote South Atlantic island ; or onboard.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the WHO, said earlier on X that the “WHO continues to work with the ship’s operators to closely monitor the health of passengers and crew, working with countries to support appropriate medical follow-up and evacuation where needed.”

“It goes without saying, Hantavirus can become a new Covid-19”, said one of WHO’s high-ranking officials.

“Monitoring and follow-up for passengers onboard and for those who have already disembarked has been initiated in collaboration with the ship’s operators and national health authorities,” he added. “At this stage, the overall public health risk remains low.”

The evacuation of three passengers from the ship, with close to 150 people onboard, means it can now continue on its three-day journey to the Canary Islands after Spanish authorities gave permission for the vessel to dock. But a row has erupted, with the president of the Canary Islands expressing concern over the ship docking in Tenerife.

Those evacuated on Wednesday include a British man, Martin Anstee, 56, who was an expedition guide onboard the ship.

He was removed from the vessel along with a Dutch colleague, 41, who was the ship’s doctor, and a 65-year-old German passenger, the Telegraph reported.

The health emergency aboard the MV Hondius comes as local public health researchers in Argentina point to climate change accelerating the risk of the spread of hantavirus.

Public heath experts say that higher temperatures expand the virus’ range because, in part, as it gets warmer and ecosystems change, rodents that carry the hantavirus can thrive in more places.

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