First, links to reports from Reuters, Agence France-Presse, National Public Radio, and ScheerPost; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. Then, links to analysis from ScheerPost, and to commentary from Popular Resistance. (The UKRAINE entry for today is HERE.) Next, via Popular Resistance, a link to an interview on the Real News Network. Finally for today, a link to an Oct. 27 report from the Grayzone mentioned in the interview. — MCM
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Premature Gaza babies evacuated to Egypt; deaths reported at Indonesian hospital, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams | Reuters GAZA / JERUSALEM — A first group of prematurely born babies evacuated from Gaza’s biggest hospital were taken into Egypt for treatment tpday, while Palestinian health authorities said people were killed inside another hospital encircled by Israeli tanks. More than two dozen babies were expected to cross, according to . . . READ MORE . . .
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Palestinians say first field hospital enters Gaza since war began. From AFP. RAFAH — Palestinian officials said a field hospital sent by Jordan entered the Gaza Strip today, the first since the war between Israel and the territory’s rulers Hamas erupted on October 7. There are around 30,000 wounded people across Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled territory. The death toll in Gaza has hit 13,000, mostly . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israel’s plan to eradicate Hamas is an impossible goal, Hamas expert says. Leila Fadel of NPR talks with Tareq Baconi of the think tank Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network, and author of the book Hamas Contained, about whether Hamas can be eliminated. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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New challenges lie ahead for Israeli military. Reported by Peter Kenyon | NPR Israeli military experts see a long, hard road ahead for Israel in the war in Gaza, both for the military and Palestinian civilians. Click HERE to listen and read.
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Ann Boyer’s powerful New York Times resignation letter. From ScheerPost. According to Literary Hub, “[Early on Nov. 16, 2023], the news broke that Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, essayist, and poetry editor of the New York Times Magazine, Anne Boyer, has resigned from her post, writing that ‘the Israeli state’s U.S.-backed war against the people of Gaza is not a war for anyone . . .’” READ MORE . . .
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Lies surrounding Al-Shifa Hospital recall those preceding the Iraq invasion, by Max Jones | ScheerPost In the weeks before the Israel Defense Forces raided the Al-Shifa hospital, the largest hospital in Gaza, the IDF “went to great lengths to depict the medical complex as a headquarters for Hamas, from where its attacks on Israel were planned,” according to The Guardian. The U.S. has claimed that it produced its own intelligence that verifies this claim. National security . . . READ MORE . . .
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Gaza, the ghetto, by Col. Ann Wright (Ret.) | Popular Resistance The intention of Israel and the United States is now very clear — ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians in Gaza — as the world watches. The impunity of Israel and the U.S. is startling and dangerous for the security of the State of Israel and the United States of America as it perpetrates an unforgivable and unforgettable criminal act against Palestinians and . . . READ MORE . . .
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Did Israel’s military kill its own citizens on Oct. 7? Chris Hedges of the Real News Network talks with Max Blumenthal of the Grayzone. From Hedges’ introduction: “For all the sensationalism surrounding the events of Oct. 7, when Hamas broke through the Gaza fence and seized territory in the Gaza Envelope as part of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, there is still much that we do not know.” Click HERE to watch, listen, and read.
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Oct. 7 testimonies reveal Israel’s military ‘shelling’ Israeli citizens with tanks, missiles, by Max Blumenthal | The Grayzone Several new [as of late October] testimonies by Israeli witnesses to the Oct. 7 Hamas surprise attack on southern Israel add to growing evidence . . . READ MORE . . .