"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.

Protesters in Port Sudan demand the expulsion of the UAE ambassador to Sudan.

UAE is supplying arms and supporting the Rapid Support Forces against Sudanese Armed Forces.

Israeli airstrikes in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza.

IDF combat helicopters on the northern border.

Hezbollah has also resumed operations against Israeli forces today.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says a "pause" between Israel and Hamas "came to an end because of Hamas".

Republican Senators ask Biden administration to "immediately restrict travel" between the U.S. and China over "mysterious illness spread”.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad claims it downed an IDF Skylark drone in central Gaza.