For today, links to commentary from Middle East Eye and Informed Comment, and to five reports: from Middle East Monitor, the Times of Israel, the Associated Press, and National Public Radio; other articles are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM

–   –    –   

As Americans head to polls, the world braces for the fallout, by Umar A Farooq, Azad Essa and Faisal Edroos | Middle East Eye  WASHINGTON / NEW YORK / LONDON — In what is essentially a two-horse race, sitting Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump appear to be locked in a knife-edge contest with hardly any light between them, according to national opinion polls. But the policies of the White House hopefuls . . . READ MORE . . .

–   –   –

FROM NOV.  4  Fatah and Hamas sign agreement on post-war Gaza. From Middle East Monitor.  Last weekend, Fatah and Hamas signed an agreement in Cairo to set up a joint technocratic government to rule Gaza as part of the post-war reconstruction, Anadolu News Agency reports. According to the report, the deal seeks to establish . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from the Times of Israel.

–   –   –

An Israeli airstrike kills 20 people in northern Gaza, Palestinian officials say, by Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | AP  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza has killed at least 20 people, mostly women and children, Palestinian officials said today, as Israel wages a nearly monthlong air and ground operation in what was already the most isolated and heavily destroyed part of the territory. READ MORE . . .

–   –   –

FROM NOV. 4  Israel ends agreement with UN agency providing aid in Gaza. From  AP.  Israel said Monday that it has terminated the agreement facilitating the work of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, the main aid provider in Gaza, in what appeared to be a step to implement legislation passed last month that would sever ties with the agency and prevent it from operating in Israel. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from NPR.

–   –   –

FROM NOV. 2  As UN warns all of Gaza is at risk of death, Bill Clinton isn’t keeping score, by Juan Cole | Informed Comment / ScheerPost  ANN ARBOR — United Nations officials have their hair on fire, shouting at the top of their lungs that the entire population of Gaza is at risk of death. That is over 2 million people on the verge of . . . READ MORE . . .