Israeli Forces Kill 62 Palestinians in Gaza Over 48 Hours

Israeli strikes killed two newborn babies in Deir el-Balah

According to The New Arab, strikes on Tuesday included an attack on the al-Mawasi camp, which the Israeli military has declared a so-called “safe zone” but has regularly bombed. Eleven people were reported killed in the strike on al-Mawasi.

Israeli strikes also hit the western part of Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, where six people, including two newborn babies, were killed. “We saw their mothers crying and carrying them out of the Al-Aqsa Hospital. It was a very heartbreaking moment, like every single day,” said Al Jazeera reporter Hind Khoudary.

Multiple Israeli airstrikes were reported in Gaza City in the north, including an attack on a tent camp sheltering people and a strike on a house that killed at least eight Palestinians.

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/12/israeli-forces-kill-62-palestinians-in-gaza-over-48-hours/

Israel Kills 78, Including Women and Children, In Attacks Across Lebanon

Over 100 Israeli airstrikes reported on Lebanon in last 24 hours

While officials are saying they see “a shot” at an Israeli ceasefire in Lebanon, there is no sign of the airstrikes against Lebanese territory slowing down. Over 100 airstrikes have been reported against Lebanon in the past 24 hours.

The death toll, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry is at least 78 people were killed nationwide in the airstrikes, and 122 others were wounded. A substantial number of women and children were among the casualties.

The biggest single strike was against a refugee shelter in the village of Joun. Joun is south of Beirut and northwest of Sidon. With people displaced from both areas, there were a substantial number of refugees flocking to the village to escape Israeli attacks. The toll has been steadily rising, and locals are reporting at least 15 were killed and 12 wounded. The killed included eight women and four children.

Not far away, another airstrike in the mountainous Aley region killed at least eight other people, according to the Health Ministry. That attack too was reported to be on a house where displaced people had taken refuge.

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/12/israel-kills-38-including-women-and-children-in-attacks-across-lebanon/

Withdraw from their own land?

Katz: 'We won’t agree to just any ceasefire, Hezbollah must withdraw beyond Litani River'

The United States is now seeking an enforcement mechanism that would ensure that the only armed body in that area would be the Lebanese Army.

Israel would reject any ceasefire that does not push Hezbollah back behind the Litani River, Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday amid reports that such an agreement was near.

"We will not agree to just any cease-fires, we will not take our foot off the gas, and we will not accept any agreement that does not include the achievement of the war goals,” Katz said as he visited the Northern Command.

This includes “the disarmament of Hezbollah, its withdrawal beyond the Litani [River], and creating the conditions for the residents of the north to return to their homes in safety,” Katz said as he laid out Israel’s conditions for such a deal.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-828989

Billionaires cashing out while the economy wobbles—what does Bezos see coming that we don’t

https://citizenwatchreport.com/billionaires-cashing-out-while-the-economy-wobbles-what-does-bezos-see-coming-that-we-dont/

Trump Picks Jewish Real Estate Investor Steve Witkoff for Middle East Envoy

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday picked Jewish real estate investor Steve Witkoff to serve as his special envoy to the Middle East, despite his having "no known experience with diplomacy or the Middle East."

From The Jerusalem Post/Reuters, "Trump picks Jewish real estate tycoon Steven Witkoff for Mideast envoy":

US President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he had picked Jewish real estate investor and campaign donor Steve Witkoff to be his special envoy to the Middle East.

As a pro-Israel donor and fundraiser for Trump's presidential campaign, Trump said in a statement that Witkoff is a "tireless voice for peace."

In an interview with The Bulwark in May, Witkoff explained that he secured "six-figure and seven-figure donations" for the Trump campaign from Jewish donors following Biden's announcement he'd be pausing weapons shipments to Israel.

In July, Witkoff attended Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech address to Congress, telling Fox News that it "was strong and it was epic to be in that room."

"It felt spiritual," he added.

Witkoff has no known experience with diplomacy or the Middle East.

I'm sure Ben Shapiro will be thrilled!

As I reported in April, Witkoff arranged a meeting between Trump and Ron DeSantis in a "quest for donors" and one day after the meeting took place Trump came out to demand pro-Palestine protests be shut down across the country.

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64742

Russia Warned Israel Against Launching Strikes Near Its Bases In Syria

Russia has asked Israel to avoid launching strikes near its bases in Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy in the Middle East, said on November 13.

Last October, an Israeli strike hit warehouses located less than a kilometer away from Russia’s Khmeimim Air Base near the coastal Syrian city of Jableh in the governorate of Lattakia. Weapons stored inside the warehouses exploded, endangering the air base which is considered the main headquarters of the Russian military group in Syria.

“Israel actually carried out an air strike in the immediate vicinity of Hmeimim,” Lavrentiev, told the RIA Novosti press agency.

“Our military has of course notified Israeli authorities that such acts that put Russian military lives in danger over there are unacceptable,” the diplomat continued.

“That is why we hope that this incident in October will not be repeated, he added.

Israel escalated its attacks on Syria after the outbreak of the war in the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip last October, targeting Syrian military sites as well as personnel of the IRGC, Hezbollah and other factions of the so-called Axis of Resistance.

After expanding operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon in September, the IDF said that it will work to prevent the supply of any weapons from Iran to Hezbollah through the Lebanese-Syrian border.

Lavrentiev also stressed to RIA Novosti that Khmeimim Air Base was not being used to supply Hezbollah with military equipment.

In the same interview, the diplomat stated that Moscow hopes that under the administration of United States President-elect Donald Trump, Washington will adjust its foreign policy discourse in the Middle East.

“We hope that with the arrival of the new president and the new administration and the appearance of new people, some changes and some adjustments in the new administration’s foreign policy are possible, including in the direction of the Middle East,” Lavrentiev said.

Moscow understands that under Trump the U.S. will have very close relations with Israel but believes that all issues and problems, including the Syrian one, must be addressed in a complex way, according to the diplomat.

“There is no way out. First of all, we need to stabilize the situation in the region in general, not let it develop and take on a larger dimension,” he said.

Recent reports in Hebrew and Arab media said that Israel was seeking Russia’s help to reach a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

All in all, Russia’s strong military presence in Syria continues to give the country the opportunities to expand its influence in the Middle East.

https://southfront.press/russia-warned-israel-against-launching-strikes-near-its-bases-in-syria/

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>cashing out

Kiev supports terrorist organizations – former SBU officer

Ukraine sends servicemen to Syria to train and recruit fighters, Vasily Prozorov has told RT

Ukraine has been working with terrorist groups in the Middle East due to a shortage of trained soldiers in its fight against Russia, former Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) officer Vasily Prozorov has stated.

Speaking to RT on Tuesday, the ex-SBU officer claimed Kiev was deploying servicemen to Syria to train terrorists, with the aim of recruiting them.

“When we were working in Syria studying arms smuggling between Ukraine and Islamic terrorist organizations, we already received information that representatives of the Ukrainian special services were sending their people to Syria, to areas not controlled by the official government, to train terrorists,” Prozorov recalled.

He elaborated that “First of all, they are training [terrorist organizations] to fly drones … and secondly, they are recruiting personnel there because Kiev has very big problems with trained personnel on their territory.”

Prozorov went on to say that there are fewer people willing to fight in Ukraine, which is why Kiev is “looking for everyone they can reach, including among terrorist militants in the Middle East.”

The former SBU officer indicated that during a series of interviews he had managed to record with several captured Ukrainian soldiers, one of them – from the nationalist unit Kraken – admitted that servicemen from his battalion were on a mission in Sudan and participated in military operations against Sudanese authorities on the side of separatists.

“They went there on direct orders from Ukrainian intelligence,” Prozorov claimed. “If we add to this the information about how Ukrainian intelligence responded to the clash in Mali between fighters of the African corps and local terrorist groups, then a clear line can be traced that Kiev supports terrorist organizations,” Prozorov insisted.

https://www.rt.com/russia/607518-ukraine-terrorist-organizations-support/

He's Going to Do It: Trump Targeting up to 100,000 Deep Staters for Absolute Exile From DC

The Deep State diaspora will begin in January, according to President-elect Donald Trump

In March 2023, Trump posted his intent to move federal jobs out of Washington, D.C. among a list of other promises regarding the dismantling of federal bureaucracy.

“Continue Trump administration effort to move parts of the federal bureaucracy outside of the Washington Swamp, just like President Trump moved the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado,” the Trump campaign wrote.

“Up to 100,000 government positions could be moved out of Washington,” the statement said.

“As many as 100,000 government positions can be moved out — and I mean immediately out — of Washington to places filled with patriots who love America,” Trump said in a video breaking down his agenda.

https://www.westernjournal.com/going-trump-targeting-100000-deep-staters-absolute-exile-dc/

She’s lying. The FEC shows the payment

https://citizenwatchreport.com/shes-lying-the-fec-shows-the-payment/

Ex-Banker Pleads Guilty in $16M International Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme Involving Former Comptroller General of Ecuador

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ex-banker-pleads-guilty-16m-international-bribery-and-money-laundering-scheme-involving

Turkey severs all relations with Israel, says Erdogan

Turkish president says he will not 'continue or develop relations' with Israel in future

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-severs-all-relations-israel-says-erdogan

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