The soldiers 'fell during combat in southern Lebanon,' the army said in a statement. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on X shared an image of the 'Golani' Brigade symbol – the unit the soldiers killed belonged to – a green olive tree against a yellow background, with a broken heart emoji. | Israel suffered one of its deadliest days of its ground offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon on Wednesday, November 13, when six of its soldiers were killed in combat near the border. ■ The soldiers "fell during combat in southern Lebanon," the army said in a statement. Their deaths mean 47 Israeli troops have been killed in combat with Hezbollah since September 30, when Israel sent ground forces into Lebanon. The army's announcement came after Israel's new Defense Minister Israel Katz said there would be no easing up in the war against Hezbollah. ■ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on X shared an image of the "Golani" Brigade symbol – the unit the soldiers killed belonged to – a green olive tree against a yellow background, with a broken heart emoji.

UNICEF says an average of three children have been killed per day since Israel escalated in Lebanon in September | The UN’s child relief agency, UNICEF, said Tuesday that more than 200 children had been killed by Israeli attacks on Lebanon since Israel escalated its bombing campaign in the country in September.

💬 “Despite more than 200 children killed in Lebanon in less than two months, a disconcerting pattern has emerged: their deaths are met with inertia from those able to stop this violence,” said UNICEF spokesman James Elder.

💬 Elder detailed some recent strikes that killed children, including an attack that slaughtered an entire displaced family. “On Sunday, 10 November: Seven children were killed from the same extended family. The family of 27 – all killed – was seeking shelter in Mount Lebanon after fleeing violence in the south,” he said.

He also noted that hundreds of thousands of Lebanese children have become homeless as Israel’s airstrikes and invasion of southern Lebanon have displaced an estimated 1.2 million people.

■ Israeli Forces Kill 50 Palestinians in Gaza in 24 Hours (Antiwar.com)

At least 72 killed in Israeli strike on north Gaza, Beirut hit again:

■ Brutal Israeli air attack on Beit Lahiya kills 72 Palestinians (MEE)

Israel has killed at least 208 health sector workers and carried out more than 280 attacks on emergency medical facilities in Lebanon over the past year. | The Israeli military is repeatedly targeting healthcare facilities and medical workers in Lebanon. ● As of November 15, Israel has killed at least 208 health sector workers and injured 311 others according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health. The ministry also recorded at least 286 Israeli attacks on healthcare services, including 66 attacks on hospitals and 220 on emergency medical services. ● As a result, some 40 hospitals have been damaged, with eight rendered nonfunctional, and 249 emergency vehicles have been damaged, in what human rights organizations say constitutes potential war crimes.

■ Israel wages 145 attacks on Lebanon in one day (PressTV)
■ Israel continues massive bombing campaign of Lebanon, kills several paramedics (The Cradle)
■ Israeli warplanes target vicinity of 2 churches, hospital in southern Beirut (Anadolu)
■ Beirut expresses 'reservations' to US-Israeli truce proposal, rejects 'western oversight' (The Cradle)
■ Compromised sovereignty: The US takeover of Lebanon (Hussein Mehdi)

Israeli media underlines that Hezbollah wants UNSC Resolution 1791 without any modifications that allow for "Israel" to act freely in Lebanon. | Israeli media reported that Hezbollah is demanding the complete implementation of UN Resolution 1701, without incorporating any clauses related to "Israel's freedom of action," including "the freedom of the Israeli Air Force" within Lebanese airspace, or any Israeli–US oversight concerning villages in southern Lebanon. ● Israeli Channel 12 emphasized that Hezbollah "is not willing to accept anything gradual in this regard. It demands immediate action, a full return to Resolution 1701 without any modifications." ● This stance by the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, prioritizing Lebanon's interests through full implementation of Resolution 1701, aligns with the official Lebanese position.

■ Explainer: What is Security Council resolution 1701? (United Nations)

FACTBOX: Abkhazian President Alsan Bzhania left the republic’s capital Sukhum on Friday, rejecting the opposition’s demand to step down and hold early elections. | The opposition in Abkhazia halted talks with government officials and announced plans to build up its forces in the seized governmental district. According to initial reports, the president withdrew from the parliament a bill to ratify an investment agreement with Russia, criticized by the opposition. However, his press service refuted this information early on Saturday. TASS compiled main facts about the situation in the country.

At least fifteen people have lost their lives after Israeli military aircraft carried out airstrikes against positions in the western flank of Damascus and the outskirts of the Syrian capital. | Syria’s official news agency SANA, citing a military source, reported that Israeli warplanes launched an assault from the direction of occupied Golan Heights at around 3:20 p.m. local time (1220 GMT) on Thursday, targeting several residential buildings in the Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus and the Qudsaya area in the Damascus countryside. The source added that the attack resulted in 15 people killed and 16 others injured. He noted that there were women and children among the casualties and that the toll was preliminary and could rise. The Israeli airstrikes against Syria come amid the Zionist regime’s bloody onslaughts against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, and the Lebanese nation.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared that Turkey, under his leadership, has no intention of maintaining or developing relations with Israel. Speaking to journalists after visits to Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan, Erdoğan emphasized the genocide in Gaza and Lebanon during his address at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Arab League summit in Riyadh. | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated, "The government of the Republic of Türkiye, led by Tayyip Erdoğan, will neither maintain nor develop its relations with Israel. We have no such intention." During his return from visits to Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan, President Erdoğan spoke with journalists on the plane. He highlighted his address at the second extraordinary joint summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Arab League held in Riyadh, where he pointed out the genocide occurring in Gaza and Lebanon. He emphasized the urgent need for a ceasefire and the uninterrupted and systematic delivery of humanitarian aid to those in need.

■ Türkiye has given strongest response to Israel's atrocities: President Erdogan (Anadolu)
■ What Could Come From Turkiye Severing Relations With Israel (Sputnik)

US occupation forces have carried out deadly strikes against Syrian military for the second day in a row, as Washington is scrambling to deter the resistance front’s retaliations against the Israeli regime’s genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip and carnage in southern Lebanon. | Lebanon's al-Mayadeen television network said the American aggression in the early hours of Wednesday hit positions on the outskirts of the city of al-Bukamal in Syria's eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr near the Iraqi border. ■ The television network said the airstrikes targeted sites of the Syrian army's auxiliary forces in al-Jam'iyat area in the city of al-Bukamal and the al-Bukamal Desert, adding that three people were killed and five others injured. ■ The US Central Command (CENTCOM) claimed in a statement on its X social media account that the strikes hit a militia group’s “weapons storage and logistics headquarters facility.

The United States and Britain have conducted aerial assaults on Yemen’s western province of Hudaydah as the Arab country continues its retaliatory operations against the Israeli regime. | Yemen’s al-Masirah television channel reported on Tuesday that American and British warplanes launched three airstrikes on the At Tuhayta district south of Hudaydah. The report provided no information about possible casualties or damage. Tuesday marked the 3rd consecutive day the US-British coalition bombed Yemen. Monday's attacks targeted the Yemeni provinces of 'Amran and Sa'ada and Sunday's air raids hit the capital Sana'a and other areas. The US and its allies have been striking Yemen over the past months in violation of the country’s sovereignty and international law.

This video was released shortly before the November 5th U.S. election. (Editor)

Despite international efforts to broker a ceasefire in Lebanon, Israel continues to escalate airstrikes across that nation. Today, one of those strikes hit the northern village of Almat, killing at least 23 people, seven of them identified as children by Lebanon’s Health Ministry. | Rescue workers are still in the area looking for more survivors, and the toll has not been finalized. At least six survivors were reported as wounded. Almat is in a region that is strongly majority Maronite Christian, but the village’s own population is majority Shi’ite Muslim. ■ Israel has yet to comment on the strike on the village, but security officials reported to the AFP that an unnamed Hezbollah member was visiting one of the attacked homes. He apparently died of his wounds, along with a lot of other people.

■ Death toll from Israeli strikes on Gaza Strip exceeds 43,600 — health ministry (TASS)

Yemen’s Armed Forces announce striking a military base near the city of Jaffa in Tel Aviv with a hypersonic ballistic missile in a “high-profile operation.” | According to the spokesman, the operation came “in support of the oppressed peoples of Palestine and Lebanon, and in support of the Palestinian and Lebanese resistances, and as part of the fifth stage of [Yemen’s] escalation [against the Israeli regime].” ■ This is not the first time that the forces have fired the projectile towards the occupied territories. The strike came amid the Israeli regime’s October 2023-present genocidal war and concomitant siege on the Gaza Strip and deadly escalation against Lebanon, which have respectively claimed the lives of more than 43,600 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and at least 3,136 Lebanese.

■ Over 90 Hezbollah rockets hit Israel, many injured, vehicles damaged (India Today)
■ Largest American command post in Syria comes under rocket attack (PressTV)

'Get them out,' president-elect reportedly instructed his generals, concerned they could be caught in a potential conflict | US President-elect Donald Trump wants to pull American troops out of northern Syria instead of leaving them as “cannon fodder” if fighting breaks out between other parties, said his political ally Rober F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy, who endorsed the Republican candidate in Tuesday’s presidential election, said that Trump recently expressed concern to him about the US military presence in Syria. In an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson, Kennedy discussed the role of US presidents in critical decision-making processes and shared details of a recent conversation he had with Trump.

■ US Ramps Up Systematic Looting of Syrian Oil, Ships 35 Tankers Out of Country (07/17/23) |

US troops began digging in in Syria in 2016-2017, with Donald Trump stating repeatedly (to the Washington establishment’s horror) that America would "keep the oil" and retain boots on the ground in Syria "only for the oil." The Biden White House claims US forces remain in the country to prevent Daesh’s* resurgence, but US actions speak otherwise. | U.S. forces in Syria have ramped up the looting of the war-torn country's oil resources, with local sources in the al-Yarubiyah countryside in eastern Hasakah province telling Syrian media on Saturday that the latest act of smuggling involved 35 oil tankers, which made their way into northern Iraq via the illegal al-Walid border crossing. "The U.S. occupation forces brought to their bases in northern Iraq a convoy consisting of 120 vehicles, including 65 tankers, some of them carrying covered damaged military equipment, 20 refrigerated trucks, and 35 tanks loaded with stolen Syrian oil," the sources said, adding that the convoy was accompanied by four Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia pickups for protection. Saturday’s account follows on reporting last week that a convoy of 39 tankers loaded with Syrian crude left fields in Hasakah and was similarly smuggled into Iraq, this time via the Mahmoudiya checkpoint -- another border crossing which the Damascus government doesn't control and hence considers illegal.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iraqi fighters have launched fresh attacks on Israeli targets in the occupied territories in retaliation for the regime’s aggression on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. | On Friday, Hezbollah said it fired a barrage of missiles at the “Stella Maris” naval base northwest of the city of Haifa. It was the second such attack in less than 24 hours. The movement said the strike came "in response to the attacks and massacres committed by the Israeli enemy." Also on Friday, Hezbollah said it targeted Ramat David airbase southeast of Haifa with a barrage of missiles. Another barrage of missiles targeted Kiryat Shmona settlement in the northern part of the occupied territories this morning, according to Hezbollah.

■ Houthis Blast Another US Drone Out of the Sky, Fire Hypersonic Missile at Israel (Sputnik)
■ Hezbollah strikes Tel Aviv, Haifa; unveils new precision missile (11/07/24)

Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has struck the cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa in the occupied Palestinian territories with kamikaze drones and missiles, besides unveiling a new precision missile that it seeks to deploy in its ongoing struggle against the Israeli regime. | In a statement on Wednesday, the movement said it had launched a retaliatory aerial attack “with a squadron of attack drones on the Belo Base, which belongs to the reserve paratrooper brigade of the Israeli enemy army’s 98 Division south of Tel Aviv, for the first time and hit its targets accurately.” ■ Hezbollah said it had carried out the operation as part of the Khaybar series of operations under the slogan, "We are at your service O Nasrallah," referring to the movement’s former secretary general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who was martyred during intense Israeli airstrikes against Lebanon’s capital Beirut in late September.

■ Nation led by Sayyed Nasrallah cannot but be victorious: Sheikh Qassem (Al Mayadeen)

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq conduct several operations against the Israeli occupation before the break of dawn on Tuesday reaffirming their commitment to supporting Palestine and Lebanon as the genocide and aggression continue. | The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has announced, in three distinct operations, that it has launched a drone strike against vital targets at Haifa port. ■ According to the video footage of the drone strike launches, one target was the Haifa Oil Refinery, another was the Tamar gas field, while the third target was not named and was only referenced as a vital target. ■ These operations continue to be conducted in support of Palestine and Lebanon as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq vows continuous operations against vital Israeli occupation targets across all of occupied Palestine.

The commander of the Iranian Navy has hailed the force’s comprehensive surveillance over the American warships that sail across regional waters.

💬 “The United States aircraft carrier as well as 16-strong destroyers and frigates that are present in the region are being constantly surveilled by our reconnaissance drones,” Rear Admiral Shahram Irani said on Monday. “We are over their heads,” he added, referring to the warships in question. [...] “This is a very important fact that we enjoy the capability to surveil the enemy even at sea,” Irani said, noting that this matter had turned into “a cause for concern for the Americans.” [...] “The Navy escorts oil and commercial cargoes from Venezuela’s coastline to the Americas, Europe, and Africa, confronting whatever violation that could take place against our ships,” Irani noted.

The Iranian surveillance aircraft were visible even to the naked eye, the commander said, describing the visibility as a means of the Islamic Republic’s “saying to the Americans that this region is not your place and we maintain all of your movements under observation.”

At least 62 soldiers killed and hundreds injured since the start of October, but some suspect real figure is being concealed by military censorship | Israel has recorded its worst month for military deaths this year amid continuing fierce fighting in southern Lebanon and northern Gaza. ■ At least 62 soldiers have been killed since the start of October, according to official figures, making this the deadliest month for the Israeli military since last December when 110 soldiers were killed at the height of its war against Hamas in Gaza. ■ It also marks a steep increase in recorded fatalities compared with recent months. Just nine deaths were recorded by the Israeli military in September, and 63 in total between June and August. ■ At least 35 Israeli soldiers have been killed in southern Lebanon or on the Lebanese border since Israel invaded its northern neighbour at the start of the month in an escalation of its war against Hezbollah. The Lebanese militant group has said it has killed more than 90 Israeli soldiers, although these figures are unverified. ■ At least 19 soldiers have also died this month in continuing fighting with Hamas in Gaza, where Israel is accused of carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing and extermination against Palestinians trapped in the north of the enclave.

■ “Mentally damaged” Israeli soldiers refusing orders to return to combat (Natural News)

In its latest assessment published on Nov. 1, the Health Ministry reported that Israeli military operations in Lebanon had caused 178 deaths and 292 injuries in the health sector. | Lebanon's health sector is at the heart of fierce Israeli air assaults, with the south of the country and the southern suburbs of Beirut hardest hit, reports CNN in a lengthy analysis. In the first month of the all-out air offensive in Lebanon, which began on Sept. 23, Israeli strikes damaged 34 hospitals, killed 111 emergency medical technicians and hit 107 ambulances, according to data compiled by the Lebanese Health Ministry. ● CNN examined more than 240 air strikes in Lebanon and found that at least 24 hospitals were within the 500-meter danger zone — used by the Israeli army as a parameter for evacuation zones — of the bombs. Israel dropped munitions at a so-called “lethal” distance — 340 meters — from at least 19 hospitals, showed the analysis, which covered the first month of the war.

The Israeli occupation continues its war against Lebanon, intensifying airstrikes along the southern and Beqaa regions. | Israeli occupation forces continue their attacks on Beirut's Southern Suburb, Beqaa, and South Lebanon, resulting in the martyrdom of one person and injuries to dozens. The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced that one person has been martyred and 15 others injured in an Israeli strike on the Gallery Semaan area just outside the Southern Suburb of Beirut. In Beqaa, two Israeli airstrikes targeted the northern entrance of the town of Mashghara in western Beqaa, resulting in two martyrs, while the search is underway for missing persons, according to Al Mayadeen's correspondent.

■ US B-52 jets arrive in the Middle East; Israeli strike on Akkar isolates village: Day 394 of the war (L'Orient Today)
■ Strikes on central Israel injure 11 as Iran’s leader promises punishing response for last week’s attack (Globe & Mail)

Israel launched dozens of intense airstrikes across Lebanon’s northeastern farming villages on Friday, killing at least 52 people and wounding scores more, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported. | In central Gaza, Palestinians recovered the bodies of 25 people killed in a barrage of Israeli aerial attacks that began Thursday, hospital officials said. The latest violence aggression comes against the backdrop of a renewed diplomatic push by United States President Joe Biden’s administration, days before the presidential election, to reach temporary cease-fire deals.

■ Month-old infant among the dozens killed in Israeli strikes on Nuseirat (Al Jazeera)
■ LIVE: Israel killed over 50 children in 48 hours in Gaza’s Jabalia – UN (Al Jazeera)

Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder added that these forces will begin to arrive in the Middle East in coming months | US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered to deploy additional forces to the Middle East, including destroyers, fighter jets and long-range strike bombers, Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder said. Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7, 2023, when militants from the Gaza-based Palestinian radical group Hamas staged a surprise incursion into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. Hamas described its attack as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. In response, Israel has declared a state of war readiness.

■ US Ordered Deployment of Missile Defense Destroyers, Strike Bombers to Mideast (Sputnik)

A Lebanese security source has revealed the US ambassador is calling on her allies to 'do their part' to destroy Hezbollah | A high-ranking Lebanese security source revealed to Al-Akhbar newspaper that the US Ambassador to Lebanon, Lisa Johnson, is continuing her agenda to prepare Lebanon for a “post-Hezbollah era” by mobilizing “internal” forces against the Islamic resistance movement while it fights the Israeli Army. In discussions with Lebanese politicians, Johnson reportedly said, “Israel cannot achieve everything through war; it’s time for you to do your part and launch an internal uprising under the banner of ‘Enough.’” The ambassador added,

💬 “The Lebanese people must show their desire to rise up and get rid of Hezbollah and return to the context that emerged after the assassination of Rafik Hariri, especially since the regional, international, and field circumstances are in your favor.”

lsrael is blowing up mosques in Southern Lebanon villages. pic.twitter.com/ZnIn4hpCaP

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) October 31, 2024

Just like what they are doing in Gaza, lsraeli occupation forces are blowing up entire towns in villages in Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/RoWjjvEuEV

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) October 31, 2024

The American-British alliance has renewed its aggression on Yemen, this time targeting a location in a proximal distance to the Hodeidah University. | American-British airstrikes targeted post-midnight on Wednesday the vicinity of Hodeidah Univeristy, in the al-Hok district, westernmost Yemen. Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Yemen confirmed that the aggression did not result in any casualties. ● This follows the deployment and use of B-2 Spirit bombers against the capital Sanaa on October 17, marking yet another act of military aggression in the region and a significant escalation against Yemen, in their campaigns of supporting the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza. A US defense official confirmed to CNN that the strikes were conducted via the B-2 bomber, which is usually deployed to strike areas heavily defended by air defense systems.

The Commanding Officer of U.S. Central Command, General Michael E. Kurilla, arrived in the Middle East earlier today from CENTCOM Headquarters in Tampa, Florida. | Later this week, he will travel to Tel Aviv, where he will meet with Israeli Military Officials. They will discuss the Defense of Israel and U.S. Military Assets in the Region from further Iranian Attacks, as well as the possibility of Joint Actions or Strikes against Iran in case of Escalation. ● Israel has decided to strike Iran again, blaming Iran for a Hezballah Drone which struck the private home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Hezballah allegedly launched that drone from Lebanon, but according to Israel, Iran is responsible. ● Last weekend, Israel attacked Iran because the Iranians had the temerity to attack Israel back. Iran retaliated with missiles, for Israel bombing a building in Tehran, which assassinated Ismail Hanniyeh.

Who could've imagined the mass immigration into European countries would end like this? pic.twitter.com/NInFbMzhWB

— Adam Green - Know More News (@Know_More_News) August 4, 2024

■ If a Devil Exists, His Residence Is the Evil State of Israel (Gary D. Barnett)
✅ Why Israel Has No ‘Right to Exist’ (Jeremy R. Hammond)
✅ Excuse Me, But Israel Has No Right To Exist (Sharmine Narwani)

Israel has seized farmland in Syria's southern Quneitra province, which could become part of Israel's 'Sufa 53' road project. | Israel has invaded and bulldozed farmland in parts of Syria's Quneitra province, following the withdrawal of a Russian monitoring force in the area with fears it might be attempting to annex the whole of the strategically important Golan Heights. ● Israeli troops left parts of the Golan already occupied by Israel into Syrian territory close to the town of Kodna, in the southern Quneitra countryside, local sources told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, The New Arab's Arabic-language service. ● Bulldozers joined the Israeli invasion force and levelled 1,000 metres by 500 metres of farmland, including olive groves, and sealed it with barbed wire in a bid to "annex" the Syrian territory, Ayman Abo Muhammed Horani, spokesman for Horan Free Media, a monitor covering events in southern Syria, said. Israel has illegally occupied parts of the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967.

Hezbollah's Resistance fighters continue to confront Israeli occupation forces by targeting their positions in the northern settlements and along the southern front with rockets, artillery and drones. | The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon - Hezbollah continues to confront Israeli occupation forces along the southern Lebanese border by targeting their sites with rockets and artillery. ● In its first released statement today, the resistance announced that at 12:20 am on Monday, its fighters launched a rocket salvo at a gathering of Israeli occupation soldiers situated between the settlements of al-Manara and "Margaliot." ● Then, at 12:50 AM, the resistance targeted, for the second time, a gathering of occupation soldiers between the settlements of Al-Manara and Margaliot, with a salvo of rockets, proceeded thereafter to target an Israeli troop gathering at the border, specifically at Fatima Gate four consecutive times.