IDF’s killed 13th Battalion Commander Tomer Greenberg:

“I feel that 41 martyrs of the 13th Battalion are covering us from above. I feel in my heart, really, that we have 41 more heroic warriors covering us from above. They guard us, shoot for us, watch for us, I really feel that they are with us.”

He was killed in Gaza yesterday.

IDF website has been hacked.

New Hamas clash footage from Khan Yunis, southern Gaza.

Israeli ambassador to UK, Tzipi Hotovely rejects the idea of a two-state solution

"The answer is absolutely no", she says.

Gaza today, Jabaliya refugee camp.

Rocket debris falling on a supermarket in Israel’s Ashdod today.

Russian soldiers used captured Ukrainian soldiers as human shield during an assault.

Heinrich Böll Foundation of the German Green Party decided to withdraw from the organization of the Hannah-Arendt Prize for Journalist Masha Gessen after Gessen's article comparing the situation in Gaza to the “Jewish ghettoization during the Holocaust.”

"Gaza is like a Jewish ghetto in an Eastern European country occupied by Nazi Germany," Gessen wrote in The New Yorker.

The United States has about $1 billion left to help Ukraine, 96% has already been allocated, the remaining 4% will be transferred to Kyiv in December, the White House says.

IDF Commander of the Home Front Command:

The situation in the north (Lebanon border) is worse than the situation in the Gaza border. We have set a target date for war in the north.

Since the start of the war, 115 Israeli soldiers have died and around 600 have been injured in Gaza, according to the Israeli military.

That is a greater number of casualties than Israel’s military experienced in previous Gaza ground invasions. At least 20 of the Israeli military fatalities were accidents, mostly the result of friendly fire.

The higher Israeli casualties reflect a shift in the military’s war tactics, with a greater focus on urban, ground combat and more targeted operations. In the earlier weeks of the war, Israel relied almost exclusively on air bombardments.

Conducting warfare house to house and “checking things from up close instead of destroying them from far away” is part of Israel’s strategy to reduce civilian casualties, said Shalom Ben Hanan, a former senior Israeli intelligence official.

But that is coming at a price for Israeli troops, and in military and security circles some are beginning to question the strategy, he said.

“I’m already hearing criticism that it’s not OK, and we have to fight differently, that we have to fight in a way that is safer for IDF soldiers,” said Ben Hanan, who is in touch with his former colleagues.

They are asking “if it is essential to battle this way, versus with tanks and planes.”

Source: WSJ

CNN reporter Clarissa Ward is the first Western journalist to enter Gaza since October 7.

She describes what she witnessed in Gaza as "harrowing," "chilling," and "sobering."

Clarissa entered Gaza with an UAE medical team. There was an Israeli military strike near the field hospital minutes just after Clarissa entered.

"You get an absolute sense of the horrors that have been taking place in Gaza. This hospital was filled with the youngest victims of this war. Children who had been disfigured, who are in full body casts, and who are covered in burns."

Nearly half of the air-to-ground munitions that Israel has used in Gaza in its war with Hamas since October 7 have been unguided, otherwise known as “dumb bombs,” according to a new US intelligence assessment.

About 40-45% of the 29,000 air-to-ground munitions Israel has used have been unguided.

The rest have been precision-guided munitions.

25 years agon on this day: U.S. President Bill Clinton inaugurated Gaza's Yasser Arafat (Dahaniya) International Airport.

Then Israel bombed the radar station and control tower on 4 December 2001 and bulldozers cut the runway on 10 January 2002, rendering the airport inoperable.

Netanyahu told a top Knesset panel that "Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) would finance the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip after the war against Hamas."

“The first step in Gaza will be to defeat Hamas. After that, I believe that the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia will support the rehabilitation of the Strip,” Netanyahu said in closed-door testimony to the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

White House, last night:

President Biden, your staff demands a ceasefire.

Protesters demanding a cease-fire in Gaza shut down the 110 Freeway in Los Angeles Wednesday morning.

All lanes were blocked as protesters lined up, sitting down along the southbound side of the freeway.

75 people were arrested.

Pastor at Trump rally last night in Coralville, IA:

"This election is part of a spiritual battle. There are demonic forces at play. But judgment is coming. When Trump becomes the 47th president, there will be retribution against all those who have promoted evil in this country."

New Palestinian public opinion poll released by PCPSR, the first since October 7th:

- 72% support Hamas offensive.

- Support for Hamas triples in West Bank (82% support offensive)

- Support for armed struggle rises to +60%

- When asked about their own preferences for the party that should be in control in the Gaza Strip after the war, 60% (75% in the West Bank, 38% in the Gaza Strip) selected Hamas.