IDF is beginning to adopt a new method of forcing Gazans out of the city.

IDF will soon publish a digital map of the Gaza Strip to the residents of Gaza, with a division of the entire territory of the Gaza Strip into small areas, each of which has a specified number.

In this way, the IDF will publish targeted instructions for each area - and this way the residents of the area will know whether they should evacuate the area or take other action.

Israeli President Herzog shook hands and spoke with Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim at COP28 in Dubai, UAE.

Zelensky:

Look, we are not backing down, I am satisfied. We are fighting with the second (best) army in the world, I am satisfied.

Zelensky said the Israel-Hamas war threatens to divert attention from the conflict in Ukraine at a critical moment, but he did not elaborate on whether there has been a tangible impact on weapons or funds.

“We already can see the consequences of the international community shifting (attention) because of the tragedy in the Middle East,” he said.

“Only the blind don’t recognize this.”

He gave a frank appraisal of the last summer’s counteroffensive.

“We wanted faster results. From that perspective, unfortunately, we did not achieve the desired results. And this is a fact,” he said.

Ukraine did not get all the weapons it needed from allies, he said, and limits in the size of his military force precluded a quick advance, he said.

“There is not enough power to achieve the desired results faster. But this does not mean that we should give up, that we have to surrender,” Zelenskyy said.

“We are confident in our actions. We fight for what is ours.”

“In the case of Ukraine, if resilience fails today due to lack of aid and shortages of weapons and funding, it will mean that Russia will most likely invade NATO countries,” he said.

“And then the American children will fight.”

The wreackage of American-supplied Ukrainian decoy missile AGM-160 MALD, probably in Kherson region.

They are used along with Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG, but the carrier aircraft is still unknown, as well as the number received by Ukraine.

#BREAKING Hamas Al-Qassam Brigades says it has resumed their operations against the Israeli army.

If you run out of matches or don't have a lighter, here's a master class from Yemen's Houthis.

"This is a war on children"

UNICEF spokesperson describes the scenes at a hospital in Gaza as the ceasefire came to an end on Friday.

James Elder:

Inaction by those with influence is allowing the killing of children.

Ukraine's new long-range rocket delivery from US pushed to next year, Reuters reports.

Ukraine will need to wait until next year before it receives its first big shipment of rocket-propelled bombs the U.S. has adapted to strike at a nearly 160 km range, according to the Pentagon and people familiar with the timing.

When the U.S. was first approached by Boeing to buy and ship the Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB) to Ukraine last fall, the most optimistic timeline for shipping was around spring of this year.

Ukraine needs GLSDB to augment the limited number of 100-mile range ATACMS rockets the U.S. has sent.

It will allow Ukraine's military to hit targets at twice the distance reachable by the rockets it now fires from the U.S.-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and force Russia to move its supplies even farther from the front lines.

People familiar with current timing say delivery to the U.S. by Boeing, the prime contractor for the GLSDB, will take place in late December - followed by several months of testing before onward shipment to Ukraine.

BBC report investigates a freed Palestinian child, Mohammed Nazal who was reportedly beaten by Israeli forces.

Israel denied the report, claiming his hands were in good condition, but scans provided by the BBC to British doctors confirmed Nazal's hands were both fractured.

A young Palestinian girl crying who just lost her father in an Israeli airstrike.

A Palestinian girl screams after being injured in Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza after Israel's war on Gaza resumed.

Israeli President Herzog and Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ), President of the United Arab Emirates, in Dubai today.

Intense IDF strikes reported in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza now.

Israel plans for ‘long war’ and aims to kill top three Hamas leaders, FT reports.

Israel is planning a campaign against Hamas that will stretch for a year or more, with the most intensive phase of the ground offensive continuing into early 2024.

The multi-phase strategy envisages Israeli forces, who are garrisoned inside north Gaza, making an imminent push deep into the south of the besieged Palestinian enclave.

The goals include killing the three top Hamas leaders — Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Marwan Issa — while securing “a decisive” military victory against the group’s 24 battalions and underground tunnel network and destroying its “governing capability in Gaza”.

“This will be a very long war . . . We’re currently not near halfway to achieving our objectives,” said one person familiar with the Israeli war plans.

Israel’s overall strategy for Gaza is flexible, with timing dictated by multiple “clocks”, including operational progress on the ground, international pressure and opportunities to free Israeli hostages, the people said.

The renewed high-intensity ground operation will probably require a few more months, taking it into the new year, the people familiar with the preparations estimated.

“This isn’t going to be weeks,” said one person familiar with US-Israel discussions over the war.

After that, there will be a “transition and stabilisation” phase of lower military intensity that could continue into late 2024, with the location of Israeli ground forces during this phase still unclear.

Unlike previous Israeli military operations and wars, one Israeli official suggested there would not be a firm end point.

“The referee won’t blow the whistle and it’s over,” they said.

Al-Azhar University in the south of Gaza City: before and after IDF strikes.

Israel Plans to Kill Hamas Leaders Around the World After War, WSJ reports.

Israeli intelligence services, together with the IDF, are preparing to eliminate all senior Hamas officials abroad, mainly in Qatar, Lebanon and Türkiye.

It is expected that no liquidations will take place at this stage, at least until efforts to free all hostages are completed.

Ukrainian soldier loading ammunition to DIY MLRS.

Russian artillerymen had a similar approach during the war.

Russians are testing an FPV drone modified to launch rocket munitions from a height.

The accuracy is... just never mind.

“Super-Mangal” with Kontakt-1 ERA on Russian T-90M tank.

Switzerland has frozen Russian assets worth 7.7 billion Swiss francs ($8.8 billion).

New IDF strikes on Gaza today.