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A little early blowing this IED. West bank.

https://streamable.com/3v7ntc

I know I won't be able to sleep unless someone steps in. Just refreshing looking for a mention of HizbAllah or something...

⚡️Israeli media: Maariv poll shows that 49% of #Israelis believe that caution should be taken before approving ground entry into #Gaza, and only 29% support immediate entry.

If true this confirms the Rybar analysis that the general opinion inside Israel has been turning against this.

Israel launches air attack on Syria’s Aleppo airport: Report

We are getting reports Israel has launched a new air attack inside Syria.

“The Israeli enemy carried out an air attack from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea, west of Latakia, targeting Aleppo International Airport,” a Syrian military source told state TV.

Syrian transport ministry official Suleiman Khalil said the Aleppo airport runway was targeted by a strike.

“Israel renewed its air aggressions on Syria … bombing Aleppo International Airport,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said a Britain-based monitor with a wide network of sources in the country.

No immediate response from Israel was available. The airport has been out of service since October 22 because of an Israeli missile attack.

- Al Jazeera

Netanyahu: I set the date for the ground entry with the Chief of Staff

We will enter Gaza, but we will not announce the details of the ground operation in Gaza to protect the lives of our soldiers

Initial report of a rocket attack on an American base in Deir ez-Zur, eastern Syria.

Not really relevant to the current crisis but still kinda neat.

https://streamable.com/ir2plt

Spain: Protest clashes have broken out between police and firefighters in Orense. Firemen have now been on strike in the Galicia region for four months over poor working conditions.

https://youtu.be/JKit2MLP5Z8

Organised by CIG, which seems rather communist in aesthetic to me. No idea how radical they are though but "has organised 6 general strikes in Galicia since its creation" is pretty based.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/10/the-gods-are-going-against-the-chosen-people-mammon-against-israel-mars-against-the-pentagon.html

Good John Helmer article on impact of genocidal war in Gaza on Israeli economy as well as non-anglo diplomacy

The plan also means exposing the weakness of the state’s infrastructure and economy; extending the battlefield across all of Israel’s territory – the ports, power plants and electricity grid, communications, and financial markets — making the cost of occupation of the Arab territories unendurable. In a long war, two of Israel’s leading exports earning more than 40% of the state’s trade — diamonds and tourism — face ruin.*

Chevron’s offshore Tamar gas field has been shut down. The source produces 70% of the gas required to fuel Israel’s electricity generation needs.

Zakharova confirmed the start of the talks with Hamas on Thursday. She said: “I can also say and confirm that representatives of the relevant Palestinian movement are in Moscow. As for contacts, we will inform you additionally.” She has also disclosed that since the war began, nine thousand Russian passport holders have returned to Russia from Israel; and that at least fifteen Russian passport holders among the Hamas hostages have been killed in the IDF airstrikes.

This line was in the recent Rybar update:

It remains a mystery how these acts of mob violence are helping the Palestinians. In the meantime, TsIPsOsh channels are inciting residents of the North Caucasus Federal District to intensify their protests.

Does anyone know what TsIPsOsh refers to? I really can't figure out what this is supposed to mean.

The same line in the original russian:

Как все эти действия толпы помогли палестинцам — остается загадкой. А тем временем ЦИПсОшные каналы подстрекают жителей СКФО масштабировать протесты.

This morning the resistance reported a helicopter they hit. Not sure if it downed.

Al-Qassam Brigades: Al-Qassam Brigades target a helicopter east of Bureij with a “SAM 7” missile, and our Mujahideen confirm that it was hit

🚨BREAKING - There are already Raids ongoing at aleast 4-5 underground tunnels in Northern Gaza.

Reports are coming through of IDF troops scanning for prisoners.

Now I have no evidence for this supposition, but I suspect the Egyptian military could be looking the other way with the smuggling tunnels between Gaza and Sinai

Politically for the Egyptian elites it makes sense, since it would limit the possibility of a mass exodus into the Sinai and give the regime more breathing room without intentionally pissing off their American paymasters, and the more this drags on and the more videos pop up of hospitals with their lights still on, the more I think that's what's happening

Of course this could just be the copeist of cope thoughts, but I hope it's true, cause it makes a long term Israeli defeat more likely

Latest updates from the health ministry:
Around 45 percent of housing units have been completely and partially destroyed.
Around 219 educational facilities have been hit, including at least 29 UNRWA schools.
An estimated 1.4 million people in Gaza are internally displaced.
A total of 101 health personnel killed by Israeli attacks, more than 100 have been wounded.
50 ambulances were attacked and half of those are out of service.
24 hospitals have been requested to evacuate in northern Gaza.
Hospitals are operating at more than 150 percent of their capacity.
At least 130 neonates dependent on incubators are now at risk of death due to lack of electricity.
Approximately 166 unsafe births per day are taking place in Gaza.

Forget Chandler; Bull from Night Court died today. Dude was hilarious