For today, links to seven reports: from Reuters, Middle East Monitor, Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, and National Public Radio, and to commentary from Middle East Eye; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below.  (UKRAINE entry for this date and a MEDIA entry are HERE and HERE.) — MCM

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Israel wages deadly Gaza strikes as northern areas issue plea for help, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas | Reuters  CAIRO / GAZA — Israel pummeled the Gaza Strip with new bombardments that killed at least 20 people today, Palestinian medics said, a day after one of the deadliest single strikes of the year-old war killed scores in the north of the enclave. Eight of today’s . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from Middle East Monitor.

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Hamas ‘not received any proposals for a Gaza ceasefire.’ From AFP. A Hamas official said today that the group had not received any proposals for a Gaza ceasefire but would discuss any ideas that include an Israeli withdrawal. READ MORE . . .

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Banning UNRWA will lead to a vacuum and more suffering for Palestinians, the agency’s chief says, by Baraa Anwer and Sarah el Deeb | AP  RIYADH — The head of the U.N. agency caring for Palestinian refugees said today that newly passed Israeli laws effectively banning its activities in Israel will leave a vacuum that will cost more lives and create further instability in Gaza and the West Bank. READ MORE . . .

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U.S. working on 60-day truce to end war in Lebanon, sources say, by Timour Azhari, Maya Gebeily and James Mackenzie  | Reuters  BEIRUT / JERUSALEM — U.S. mediators are working on a proposal to wind down hostilities between Israel’s military and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, beginning with a 60-day ceasefire, two sources said today. READ MORE . . .

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FROM OCT. 29  An Israeli airstrike in north Gaza killed dozens of people, as parliament bans UNRWA. Reported by Kat Lonsdorf | NPR  TEL AVIV — An Israeli airstrike on a building in northern Gaza overnight killed at least 60 Palestinians and wounded more, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, in one of the deadliest attacks in weeks. The strike hit . . . Click HERE to listen and read.

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FROM OCT. 29  Hezbollah chooses new leader and vows to continue ‘until victory.’ From AP. Lebanon’s Hezbollah has chosen Sheikh Naim Kassem to succeed longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike last month, as the militant group vowed Tuesday to continue “until victory is achieved.” Kassem, 71, who had been Nasrallah’s deputy leader for . . . READ MORE . . .

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The Jabalia doctrine: Genocide as a counterinsurgency policy, by Raja Abdulhaq | Middle East Eye  Since the Oct 7 attack, Israel has adopted genocide as a population-centric counterinsurgency strategy. While this follows Israel’s historical perpetration of ethnic cleansing during the Nakba in 1948, the objectives of these two events are distinct. During the Nakba, ethnic . . . READ MORE . . .