For today, links to five reports: from Reuters, National Public Radio, Middle East Monitor, and the Associated Press, and to commentary from Middle East Monitor and Middle East Eye; other articles are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM
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Israeli tanks retreat from central Gaza camp, medics say 30 killed, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters CAIRO — Israeli military strikes killed at least 30 Palestinians overnight in the Gaza Strip, most of them in the Nuseirat camp at the centre of the enclave, medics said today after some tanks pulled back from an area they had raided. READ MORE . . .
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FROM NOV. 28 Another winter arrives in Gaza, but flimsy tents are all people have. Reported by Aya Batrawy | NPR People in Gaza have had to contest with Israeli airstrikes, hunger, armed gangs of looters and — now — a rainy winter without shelter. Click HERE to listen and read.
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Ben-Gvir: There’s a historic opportunity to reclaim Gaza. From Middle East Monitor. There is a historic opportunity “to reclaim the Gaza Strip and promote voluntary migration,” Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was quoted as saying by Maariv newspaper on Nov. 28. He claimed such a move . . . READ MORE . . .
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Saudi Arabia abandons pursuit of U.S. defence treaty over Israel stalemate, by Samia Nakhoul and Pesha Magid | Reuters RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has abandoned its pursuit of an ambitious defence treaty with Washington in return for normalising relations with Israel and is now pushing for a more modest military cooperation agreement, according to two Saudi and four Western officials. READ MORE . . .
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Battered by war and divisions, Lebanon faces a long list of challenges after ceasefire deal, by Kareem. Chehayeb | AP BEIRUT — Town after town in Lebanon’s south and east as well as parts of Beirut have been destroyed, entire border villages leveled to the ground, and thousands of buildings damaged. The World Bank estimates . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israel and the West’s war on itself: The true meaning of ICC arrest warrants, by Ramzy Baroud | Middle East Monitor It turns out that the international system has a pulse, after all, though faint, but is enough to rekindle hope that legal and moral accountability are still possible. READ MORE . . .
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FROM NOV. 28 Ceasefire in Lebanon: What now for the Axis of Resistance? by Alex MacDonald | Middle East Eye Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to a ceasefire. With more than 3,800 dead in Lebanon in just over a year, the move comes . . . READ MORE . . .