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VIDEO | An Israeli surveillance balloon was spotted flying over the village of Khiam in southern Lebanon.
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⭕️ US issues 'final warning' to Iraq over resistance factions

Iraqi Defense Minister Thabit al-Abbasi revealed what he described as Washington’s “most serious warning” to Baghdad, delivered by his US counterpart Pete Hegseth during a phone call.

According to Abbasi, the warning concerned Iraq’s resistance factions and included a direct threat “in the event that these factions carry out any operations in response to what Washington intends to do in the region near Iraq in the coming days.” Hegseth reportedly ended the call with the words: “This is your final notice … and you know very well how the current administration will respond.”

The Iraqi minister said the conversation, which lasted about 12 minutes and included senior Iraqi military officials, also touched on cooperation regarding drones, a proposed intelligence-sharing memorandum, and a pending deal for Bell helicopters. Analysts told Asharq al-Awsat the warning reflects a new US approach aimed at 'curbing Iranian influence' and pressuring resistance factions to “either align with the state or await potential US military operations.”

(Asharq al-Awsat)
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‼️ According to his family, Palestinian prisoner Mohammad Hussein Ghawadra, from the village of Bir al-Basha south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, has died in Israeli prisons.

He is the father of freed detainee Shadi Ghawadra, who was exiled to Egypt.
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Israeli war minister accuses Lebanese president of ‘dragging feet,’ threatens ‘deeper’ escalation

Israel has killed over 30 people since the start of last month under the pretext of preventing Hezbollah from rebuilding its forces
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Iraq, Turkiye finalize 'first of its kind' agreement to regulate shared water resources

Turkiye has built multiple dams allowing it to limit the flow of water desperatedly needed to keep Iraq's rivers from drying up
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‼️ Israeli prosecutor linked to torture video leak disappears, police launch beach search

Israeli media reports that Israeli police are searching for Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi after losing contact with her.

The prosecutor, who resigned after being implicated in leaking horrific footage of Israeli soldiers torturing a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman detention facility, has gone missing.

Police search operations are centered around Tel Aviv’s Tzuk Beach, where her vehicle was found. According to Channel 12, she left a message for her family before disappearing, prompting them to contact authorities.

Israeli Carmel News channel commented that she “should have been under protective arrest” as “many high-ranking figures in the deep state are interested in making sure she doesn’t open her mouth.”
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BREAKING | Israeli shelling reported in eastern Gaza City.

(Palestine Today correspondent)
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❗️Hamas's military wing, the Qassam Brigades:

"As part of the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood prisoner exchange deal, the Qassam Brigades will hand over the bodies of three Israeli captives that were found earlier today along the route of one of the tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip, at 8 pm Gaza time."
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US issues ‘final warning’ to Baghdad over Iraqi resistance factions

The country’s defense minister says Washington informed him of upcoming US operations ‘near Iraq’
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❗️Israeli artillery shelling targets the eastern areas of Khan Yunis in south Gaza.

Shelling, live fire, and the demolition of homes continues across several areas in the strip.
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❗️Since the early morning, Israeli drones have been flying over south Lebanon and Baalbek, according to local reports.
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❗️UNICEF: Children in Gaza face 'unimaginable suffering' as hunger and disease deepen

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson Tess Ingram has warned that more than one million children in Gaza are enduring desperate conditions, with food and clean water increasingly scarce despite the ceasefire declared on 10 October. Ingram said thousands of children go to bed hungry each night, while over 650,000 remain unable to return to school. She stressed the so-called ceasefire is far from enough to address the deepening humanitarian crisis.

Ingram explained that Gaza’s infrastructure has been shattered, leaving families struggling daily to survive. Although the flow of aid has slightly improved since the truce began, she called it “woefully inadequate,” noting that current levels remain far below those that entered the Strip before the conflict escalated. Many children, she added, are suffering from treatable illnesses due to the collapse of the health system and severe shortages of medicine and doctors.

UNICEF has urged the immediate opening of all border crossings to allow a full flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza. The call comes as Israeli forces continue to restrict access and carry out sporadic strikes, in violation of the truce.
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❗️Al-Manar correspondent Ali Shoeib on Israeli attacks on Lebanon since this morning:

– The outskirts of the Bastra Farm area and the Azra’il region near the edges of Kfar Shuba, south Lebanon came under gunfire and grenade attacks originating from the Israeli position at al-Ramtha.

– The Israeli al-Samaqah outpost targeted the southern outskirts of the town of Kfar Shuba with bursts of medium-caliber gunfire.
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⭕️ Israel retrieves remains of three captives from Gaza

Israel announced on 3 November that it had received the remains of three captives from Gaza for forensic identification, while Hamas said the bodies were found in a tunnel in southern Gaza.

The handover is part of an ongoing exchange process under the US-mediated ceasefire that began on 10 October. Since then, 17 bodies of Israeli captives have been returned, with 11 still held. In return, Israel has been releasing the remains of 15 Palestinians for each Israeli captive.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said only 75 of the 225 Palestinian bodies handed over since the truce began have been identified due to a lack of DNA testing kits.
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VIDEO | Israeli forces fired tear gas at Palestinian farmers attempting to access their lands in the town of Idhna, west of Hebron, occupied West Bank.
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❗️Survivors describe UAE-backed RSF rounding up and abusing civilians in Al-Fasher

According to a report by Agence France-Presse (AFP), hundreds of men and boys have been detained by Sudan’s UAE-backed paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) following their takeover of the strategic city of El-Fasher in western Sudan. Among them was a witness, Hussein, a young man from a nearby village, who told AFP that he and about 200 others were rounded up while trying to flee. He said the RSF fighters beat them with sticks, and held them for days in a school building northwest of the city, providing only one meal a day.

AFP reported that the RSF’s capture of El-Fasher last week ended an 18-month siege of the army’s final stronghold in Darfur, a period marked by starvation and bombardment. Since the city’s fall, there have been widespread accounts of executions, sexual violence, looting, and attacks on aid workers, with communication networks still largely cut off.

The United Nations estimates that over 65,000 people have fled El-Fasher since the takeover, including around 5,000 to nearby Tawila, while tens of thousands remain trapped in the devastated city of roughly 260,000 residents.
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