For today, links to six reports: from the Anadolu Agency, Reuters and the Associated Press, to a movie review from Middle East Eye, and to commentary from Wafa; other articles 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 kills 55 more Gazans as death toll surpasses 43,300, by Ikrame Imane Kouachi | Anadolu Agency ANKARA — At least 55 more Palestinians were killed and 192 inured in Israeli attacks in the previous 24 hours in the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall death toll since last year to 43,314, the Health Ministry in the enclave said today. READ MORE . . .
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Hezbollah claims rocket attack on Israeli military base in Tel Aviv, by Zein Khalil | Anadolu Agency JERUSALEM — The Lebanese group Hezbollah claimed a rocket attack on an Israeli military intelligence base in Tel Aviv today. The Glilot base is . . . READ MORE . . .
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Rockets from Lebanon wound 11 in Israel, by Rami Amichay | Reuters TIRA, Israel – Rockets fired from Lebanon wounded 11 people in central Israel today, Israeli emergency services said, after one of them hit a house, as prospects for a ceasefire dimmed. READ MORE . . .
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FROM NOV. 1 Israel fights a seemingly endless war in Gaza’s most devastated region, by Samy Magdy, Julia Frankel and Joseph Krauss | AP JERUSALEM — More than a year into a war that has ricocheted across the Middle East, Israeli troops are still battling Hamas in the most heavily destroyed and isolated part of the Gaza Strip. READ MORE . . .
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Israel’s path of destruction in southern Lebanon raises fears of an attempt to create a buffer zone, by Kareem Chehayeb, Julia Frankel and Bassem Mroue | AP BEIRUT —Israeli warplanes and ground forces have blasted a trail of destruction through southern Lebanon the past month. The aim, Israel says, is to debilitate the Hezbollah militant group, push it away from the border and end . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israeli forces threaten, attack Palestinian farmers harvesting olives in West Bank. From Middle East Monitor. Israeli occupation forces attacked Palestinian farmers harvesting olives in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank, early this morning, according to the Wafa news agency. READ MORE . . .
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Fighting Palestinian erasure through the act of remembering. A movie review by Katherine Hearst | Middle East Eye. “Bye Bye Tiberias” opens with grainy VHS footage of a woman and her child swimming in the waters of Lake Tiberias on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. The Franco–Palestinian–Algerian director Lina Soualem narrates: “As a child . . . READ MORE . . .
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Remembering the infamous Balfour Declaration on its 107th anniversary. From Wafa. It was issued by then British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the global Zionist movement, following three years of negotiations between the British government and Jewish representatives. Leaders of the movement had convinced Britain of its potential to further British interests in the region. READ MORE . . .