IDF soldiers in Gaza were given a mission: to cover with paint the hundreds of Hebrew graffiti inscriptions sprayed on Palestinian buildings in Gaza- from returning to Gush Katif to sympathizing with soccer teams.

Chinese Norinco Type 05 amphibious fighting vehicle (ZTD-05) firing with its ZPL-98A 105mm rifled gun during an exercise.

Netanyahu:

In the last few days I hear a question - after this phase of returning our abductees is exhausted, will Israel return to fighting?

So my answer is an unequivocal yes.

There is no way we are not going back to fighting until the end. This is my policy.

Hamas says 10 month old Kfir Bibas, along with his 4 year old brother Ariel, and his mother Shiri have been killed in previous IDF strikes.

IDF says it is investigating the claim.

Israeli Defense Minister Gallant:

If anyone has any doubts - very soon we will continue the ground operation all over Gaza.

New reality of warfare: Russian soldier tries to fight off a Ukrainian FPV kamikaze drone but...

Venezuela claims Guyana’s Essequibo region, a territory larger than Greece and rich in oil and minerals, as its own and whose future it intends to decide Sunday with a referendum.

The practical and legal implications of the vote, which among other things calls for turning Essequibo into a Venezuelan state, remain unclear, but the referendum has left area residents on edge.

The 61,600-square-mile (159,500-square-kilometer) area accounts for two-thirds of Guyana.

Yet, Venezuela has always considered Essequibo as its own because the region was within its boundaries during the Spanish colonial period, and it has long disputed the border decided by international arbitrators in 1899, when Guyana was still a British colony.

Venezuela’s commitment to pursue the territorial claim has fluctuated over the years. Its interest piqued again in 2015 when ExxonMobil announced it had found oil in commercial quantities off the Essequibo coast.

The disputed boundary was decided by arbitrators from Britain, Russia and the United States. The U.S. represented Venezuela on the panel in part because the Venezuelan government had broken off diplomatic relations with Britain.

Venezuelan officials contend the Americans and Europeans conspired to cheat their country out of the land and argue that a 1966 agreement to resolve the dispute effectively nullified the original arbitration. Guyana, the only English-speaking country in South America, maintains the initial accord is legal and binding and asked the world court in 2018 to rule it as such.

Brazilian troops are reportedly moving towards the border with Venezuela as reports of clashes circulating around near disputed Guyana-Essequibo region.

U.S. Army deployed some of the leadership for the 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) to Guyana over the weekend.

The SFAB team met with Guyana Defense Force (GDF) leadership in order to plan out enhanced military cooperation together.

#BREAKING Israel and Hamas agree to extend Gaza truce for two more days.

Hamas releases two more Israeli hostages with Russian citizenship to the Red Cross.

Putin:

Germany “swallows” attacks from its “allies” due to the lack of sovereignty and insufficient training of some leadership representatives, who are laughed at all over the world.

Elon Musk in response to advertisers like Disney, IBM, Apple pulling their ads on Twitter/X:

If somebody is gonna try to blackmail me with money… Don’t advertise…go fuck yourself. Go. Fuck. Yourself. Is that clear?

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was left waiting 30 minutes at tarmac of Qatar airport.

No Qatari official showed up to pick him up from the airport.

Hostages being released by Hamas bidding farewell to Hamas members.

Britain has sent the Royal Navy ship Type 45/Daring-class air-defence destroyer HMS Diamond (D34) to help bolster regional security in the Gulf and the Indian Ocean.

Henry Kissinger, top U.S. Diplomat & War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Dies

Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday at his home in Connecticut, his consulting firm said in a statement. He was 100 years old.

The Yale University historian Greg Grandin, author of the biography Kissinger’s Shadow, estimates that Kissinger’s actions from 1969 through 1976, a period of eight brief years when Kissinger made Richard Nixon’s and then Gerald Ford’s foreign policy as national security adviser and secretary of state, meant the end of between three and four million people.

That includes “crimes of commission,” he explained, as in Cambodia and Chile, and omission, like greenlighting Indonesia’s bloodshed in East Timor; Pakistan’s bloodshed in Bangladesh.

Kissinger helped to prolong the Vietnam War and expand that conflict into neutral Cambodia; facilitated genocides in Cambodia, East Timor, and Bangladesh; accelerated civil wars in southern Africa; and supported coups and death squads throughout Latin America.

He had the blood of at least 3 million people on his hands, according to his biographer Greg Grandin.

There were “few people who have had a hand in as much death and destruction, as much human suffering, in so many places around the world as Henry Kissinger,” said veteran war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody.

"I was asked if I regret what I had said about the state of Israel and I said no"

Canadian Palestinian journalist Yara Jamal says she was fired from CTV, a TV channel, for her pro-Palestine and anti-Zionism views.

France banned ministers from using WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal.

According to the order, officials are required to remove from their devices all instant messengers that have not been approved by the intelligence services by December 8.

Government members are encouraged to use French messaging app Olvid, which the document describes as "the only secure messaging platform."

Pro-Palestine crowd cheer upon learning Henry Kissinger died near Fifth Avenue/53rd Street station, New York.