Turkish newspaper Hurriyet report on the reason for Turkish FM Hakan Fidan's reserved approach towards Blinken during yesterday's meeting in Ankara:

When Blinken's car arrived at the door of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hakan Fidan got out of the car and went to the front door of the ministry, as he did with every visiting minister.

However, Blinken did not get out of the car, and when Blinken, who was on the phone, did not get out of his car, Fidan turned back to the building and went inside.

Fidan welcomed Blinken inside, showing a lack of diplomatic courtesy, and rejected the US Secretary of State's attempt to get close with him.

Biden is planning a $320 million transfer of precision bombs for Israel.

The administration sent formal notification on Oct. 31 to congressional leaders of the planned transfer of Spice Family Gliding Bomb Assemblies, a type of precision-guided weapon fired by Israeli jets.

New IDF footage from the invasion of Gaza.

Former US soldier and analyst Douglas Macgregor:

Turkish soldiers will eventually fight in Gaza.

Erdoğan is sensitive to timing, he is mobilizing the country.

This is going to happen, it's a mistake to dismiss him.

Erdoğan is the one man in Middle East with the capability to destroy Israel.

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Israel boycott in the Turkish Parliament: Nescafe and Coca Cola removed from the menu.

Parliamentary Presidency decided to remove products of brands that support Israel from the menu.

While it is claimed that the decision was taken in protest against Israel, which continues its attacks on Gaza, it was learned that the products will be returned to the warehouse.

American Jews are calling for an immediate ceasefire at the Statue of Liberty now.

Ukrainian president’s powerful chief of staff, Andrii Yermak:

Think for a moment, if Britain in 1939 had felt tired of Poland, or if the U.S. … felt tired of Britain, would there be such a thing as Poland today, Britain, or Europe as we see it now?

We could not afford fatigue then or now. That will repeat itself for sure if these people with ‘fatigue’ stop supporting Ukraine.

Ukraine will never live in the frozen conflict mode.

Complaining about war fatigue would rebound on Western powers as much as it would on Ukraine.

Ukraine is striving to establish itself as a firm ally of Israel and Yermak penned an article for the Haaretz newspaper in the wake of the Hamas attack, saying “the similarities of our tragedies are not accidental.”

He cited Iran’s backing for Hamas and supply of drones and weapons to Moscow as evidence of a “pole [axis] of evil” and added:

“Russia is aggressor number one. And the second after Russia is Iran. And I think these two have an interest in what is happening in the Middle East as well.”

IDF soldiers at the Qalandiya checkpoint (north of Jerusalem) shot a young Palestinian woman who was wearing a green scarf.

A reporter for Israel's Channel 12 complained to X about a user who added a Nazi symbol (Swastika) to the Israeli flag

X support team responded that the image didn’t violate Twitter (X) rules.

The commander of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) Lieutenant General Ingo Gerhartz donated blood this morning at an Israeli hospital.

Ukraine is poised to legalize medical marijuana as soon as this month in a bid to offer its veterans some potential assistance, Bloomberg reports.

The Israeli army shared footage of hundreds of Gazans forced to relocate.

Hundreds of Gazans are seen with their hands in the air and carrying white flags.

Grenade birthday gift killed Ukrainian army chief Zaluzhny's aide

Maj. Hennadiy Chastyakov, 39, had returned to his flat with presents from his colleagues and was opening them with his son when the grenade exploded.

Chastyakov was given German combat grenades DM51 for his birthday by the senior assistant to the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel Timchenko.

But Chastyakov did not believe that they were combat grenades and decided to check.

Then he pulled the ring.

He was killed.

Pentagon deployed the nuclear-powered USS Florida attack submarine to the Persian Gulf region as the US makes a show of force to deter Iran, Bloomberg reports.

The Florida, though nuclear powered, doesn’t carry nuclear weapons. It is one of four US Navy submarines converted from carrying sea-launched nuclear missiles to Tomahawk land-attack weapons and commandos.

The Florida can carry as many as 154 Tomahawk missiles or as many as 66 Navy SEAL commandos, who can clandestinely leave the vessel through forward bow compartments.

IDF says its forces continue to locate and destroy tunnels in Gaza.

Israel’s war against Hamas has sent shockwaves through its $488bn economy, disrupting thousands of businesses, straining public finances and plunging whole sectors into crisis, FT reports.

“The government is abandoning its people,” Ron Tomer, head of the Manufacturers’ Association of Israel, said.

Many were not being fully compensated for lost earnings, he added:

“They’re going to get a nasty shock in their next pay packets.”

Some 350,000 Israeli army reservists were called up — 8 per cent of the workforce — as the country mobilised for war.

Meanwhile, 126,000 civilians from the north and south of Israel have been relocated in an effort to shield them from Hamas missiles and mortar attacks by Hizbollah, the Lebanese militant movement backed by Iran.

The labour ministry says that 764,000 Israelis — 18 per cent of the workforce — are not working after being called up for reserve duty, evacuated from their towns or forced by school closures to look after children at home.

Rafah, southern Gaza Strip: the queue for the lentil soup.

Hamas says that several days ago, they were about to release 12 detainees in Gaza who hold foreign nationalities, but Israel obstructed that.

"We still affirm that we are ready to release them, but the situation on the ground and the Zionist aggression that threatens their lives is what hinders this from being completed."

Armenian-born Vagif Cherkezovich Khachaturyan was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Baku for taking part in Armenian forces’ 1991 Khojaly massacre of Azerbaijani civilians.

Latest Gaza toll:

10,328 killed, including 4,237 children.

Russian MoD PR video with destroyed:

- German Dingo 2 armored car
- Swedish CV9040C infantry fighting vehicle
- American M1224 MaxxPro armored vehicle
- a pair of American M2A2 Bradley ODS-SA infantry fighting vehicles
- M113 armored personnel carrier
- Two German Leopard 2A4s tanks