Hungary says it will not support the decision to begin negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the EU and allocate 50 billion euros to Ukraine until 2027.

U.S Navy release footage of divers conducting an underwater survey of the US Navy reconnaissance aircraft Boeing P-8 Poseidon that overshot the runway in Hawaii on November 20.

IDF armored vehicles drive towards a group of Palestinians who are in the area along the beach in Gaza City.

Israeli fighter jets reportedly hit an ammunition depot of Yemen's Houthis today.

Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft hit by Russian Lancet kamikaze UAV strike.

The aircraft was heavily damaged at the Dolgintsevo Air Base in Dnipro region.

In undisclosed call Pope Francis warned Israel against committing ‘terror’, WaPo reports.

As bombs fell and tanks penetrated deep into Gaza in late October, Israeli President Isaac Herzog held a fraught phone call with Pope Francis.

The Israeli head of state was describing his nation’s horror over the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 when the pope issued a blunt rejoinder.

It is “forbidden to respond to terror with terror,” Francis said.

Herzog protested, repeating the position that the Israeli government was doing what was needed in Gaza to defend its own people.

The pope continued, saying those responsible should indeed be held accountable, but not civilians.

Taken with the diplomatic exchange — deemed so “bad” by the Israelis that they did not make it public — the implication seemed clear: The pope was calling their campaign in Gaza an act of terrorism.

“How else could it be interpreted?” said the senior official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.

Biden administration is facing growing internal dissent over its support for Israel’s military assault on Hamas in Gaza, reflecting a wider debate in American society and a generational divide among Democrats over the issue, NBC reports.

The extraordinary scope of the dissent inside the government, including statements in open letters from government employees, goes beyond anything seen in previous administrations dating back to the 1980s, including during the Iraq War and President Donald Trump’s restrictions on travel from mainly Muslim states, former officials said.

“It’s remarkable and it’s unprecedented,” said Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think tank who worked at the State Department from 1978 to 2003.

“I’ve never seen anything like it.”

The administration is now having to mediate its own internal version of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Miller said.

There is a feeling that Israel should not be able to act with “impunity,” the official said, and many foreign service officers believe that with the high civilian death toll in Gaza, U.S. aid to Israel should not remain unconditional, the official said.

U.S. diplomats in the Middle East are sending emails back to Washington saying their most levelheaded counterparts in the region are warning them that America’s reputation is being seriously damaged by its approach to the war, according to two State Department officials.

Putin appears to be winning the war in Ukraine, for now, The Economist says.

Russia’s president has put his country on a war footing and strengthened his grip on power. He has procured military supplies abroad and is helping turn the global south against America. Crucially, he is undermining the conviction in the West that Ukraine can—and must—emerge from the war as a thriving European democracy.

The West could do a lot more to frustrate Mr Putin. If it chose, it could deploy industrial and financial resources that dwarf Russia’s. However, fatalism, complacency and a shocking lack of strategic vision are getting in the way, especially in Europe.

For its own sake as well as Ukraine’s, the West urgently needs to shake off its lethargy.

The reason a Putin victory is possible is that winning is about endurance rather than capturing territory. Neither army is in a position to drive out the other from the land they currently control.

A jewelry store employee in Japan chased away robbers using a sasumata, pole weapon used by the samurai class and their retainers in feudal Japan.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi:

How to view Hamas? This should first be judged by the Palestinian people... China has always opposed all terrorism.

At the same time, we advocate that double standards cannot be used to oppose terrorism.

Hamas releases appeal of Israeli hostage Jordan Bibas, whose wife and his two children were killed by IDF strikes in Gaza to Netenyahu.

Hamas says it offered to hand over the three bodies, but the Israeli government refused to receive them and is still maneuvering and bargaining.

Bahraini MP Al-Balushi:

On the Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, the American, French and British ambassadors are present here, who supported the war and genocide against Gaza, just like the one who kills the dead person and walks in his funeral.

Let me withdraw from this ceremony in objection to the presence of these ambassadors.

Netanyahu’s office:

Hamas violated the agreement, did not fulfill its obligation to release all the women hostages today, and launched rockets at the citizens of Israel.

The Israeli government is committed to achieving the goals of the war.

Mia Shem, who was released by Hamas, talks about her experience in captivity:

People were very good.

Very kind, to me.

Food good and the kindness and everything good.

Gaza now. Ceasefire is over.

Strong clashes between Israeli and Hamas forces in northern Gaza.

Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago, NYT reports.

Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show.

But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out.

The approximately 40-page document, which the Israeli authorities code-named “Jericho Wall,” outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of devastating invasion that led to the deaths of about 1,200 people.

The translated document, which was reviewed by The New York Times, did not set a date for the attack, but described a methodical assault designed to overwhelm the fortifications around the Gaza Strip, take over Israeli cities and storm key military bases, including a division headquarters.

Hamas followed the blueprint with shocking precision. The document called for a barrage of rockets at the outset of the attack, drones to knock out the security cameras and automated machine guns along the border, and gunmen to pour into Israel en masse in paragliders, on motorcycles and on foot — all of which happened on Oct. 7.

The plan also included details about the location and size of Israeli military forces, communication hubs and other sensitive information, raising questions about how Hamas gathered its intelligence and whether there were leaks inside the Israeli security establishment.

Officials would not say how they obtained the Jericho Wall document, but it was among several versions of attack plans collected over the years.

The Jericho Wall document, named for the ancient fortifications in the modern-day West Bank, was even more explicit. It detailed rocket attacks to distract Israeli soldiers and send them hurrying into bunkers, and drones to disable the elaborate security measures along the border fence separating Israel and Gaza.

IDF is now dropping leaflets asking the residents of Al Qarara, Khuza'a, Absan and Bani Suhaila to evacuate quickly and sheltar in Rafah.

"Khan Younis city is a dangerous combat zone"

Former Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman:

There are no innocents in Gaza.