🇺🇸🇮🇱 The US has put pressure on the Israeli government to restore communications in the Gaza Strip, media reported, citing a senior US official

💬 "We made it clear they had to be turned back on," the official said, adding that the Israelis did not explain to Washington why they cut off communications in the Gaza Strip.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Latest updates on the Palestine-Israel conflict:

▪️WHO says impossible to evacuate patients from Gaza hospitals amid hostilities

▪️No direct talks between Israeli authorities and Hamas, Israeli ambassador in Moscow says

▪️The US has put pressure on the Israeli government to restore communications in the Gaza Strip

▪️Turkiye preparing to host international conference on Gaza

▪️Confirmed number of hostages in Gaza rises to 239, IDF said

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israeli tanks are seen approaching Gaza city, key road between the north and south of the enclave has been cut, AFP reports

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Aftermath of Israeli strikes on residential areas of Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in southwestern Gaza City, as seen by Sputnik correspondent

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🇷🇺 Riots at Dagestan airport are result of foreign interference, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says

Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting today to discuss Western attempts to use events in the Middle East to divide Russia and international society.

The meeting will be attended by:

▪️Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin
▪️Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev
▪️Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov
▪️Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergey Naryshkin
▪️Secretary of the Security Nikolai Patrushev
▪️Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov
▪️Minister of Defence Sergei Shoigu
▪️Prosecutor-General Igor Krasnov
▪️Chairwoman of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko
▪️Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin

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🇷🇺🛩 What is known so far about riots at Dagestan airport

▪️The riots in Dagestan were organized from Ukraine, head of the Republic of Dagestan Sergey Melikov said,

▪️Makhachkala airport will resume normal operations in two or three days after Sunday’s riots, Melikov added

▪️The airport remains provisionally closed to inbound flights until 6 November

▪️Criminal cases have been opened, and all responsible will be called to account, the Dagestan Governor insisted

▪️A mob breached the Makhachkala airport late on 29 October, scuffling with airport police, and swarming the runway

▪️The unauthorized gathering was prompted by online information about a flight allegedly arriving from Tel Aviv. The “protesters” were reportedly searching for Israeli passengers

▪️The airport was closed to inbound and outbound traffic

▪️After riot police entered the airport, the situation was brought under control

▪️Some 20 people, including at least six police officers, sustained injuries in the clashes

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🇷🇺 Key statements made by Kremlin spokesman Peskov at daily press briefing

▪️The Kremlin agrees with Shoigu's remarks about the West’s line of escalating the conflict with Russia posing the threat of a direct military clash between the nuclear powers, which is fraught with catastrophic consequences

▪️A call by renowned US economist Jeffrey Sachs for Washington to reconsider its position on Russia is a rare display of reasoning in the West, but these discussions are brewing

▪️At the moment, there are no proposals of security guarantees for Russia in light of NATO enlargement

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🇷🇺🪖 Russian forces shoot down eight Storm Shadow missiles in Ukrainian attack targeting Crimea

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israeli tank fires on civilian car in Gaza Strip, killing three people, eyewitnesses told Sputnik

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Netanyahu’s dirty little secret: Why did Israeli PM once help prop up Hamas?

The violence in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank is rapidly shaping up to become one of the bloodiest-ever flashpoints in the 75-year-old Palestinian-Israeli crisis’s history, with Hamas’ surprise October 7 invasion blamed for triggering the carnage. But one little-talked about aspect of the conflict is the Israeli government and Benjamin Netanyahu’s personal role in supporting Hamas over the years.

A recent article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz documents some of the ways Netanyahu has materially supported the armed group during his over 16 years as Israeli prime minister, including by reportedly allowing untraceable cash contributions from outside, and allowing Hamas leaders to operate freely outside the country, even as Israel keeps a tight grip on the rest of Gaza, which has been described as the world’s largest concentration camp.

In effect, Hamas and the Israeli government can be said to have had a symbiotic relationship aimed at fomenting perpetual conflict and discrediting the Palestinian cause in the eyes of the West.

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🇷🇺🪖 Russian engineer-sapper crews send Ukrainian armored vehicle flying in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) area

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🇷🇺 Riots at Dagestan airport are result of provocation planned with help of foreign interference, Russia’s MFA spokeswoman Maria Zakharova says

The key role in the incident was assigned to the criminal Kiev regime, as Ukraine is maximally interested in destabilizing the situation in Russia and discrediting the country in the international arena, Zakharova said.

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🤔 Imperialistic Ways of Doing Things

"[What are] Your thoughts on the US imperialism now constantly hiding behind a woman leader in front of SOUTHCOM, a black leader in charge of this, etc., etc.?"

Garland Nixon, host of our podcast The Critical Hour, describes his recent personal experience at the UN

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🇪🇺🇩🇪 German defense minister urges preparations for European war

Boris Pistorius has said Germans “have to get used to” the idea of a threat of war in Europe, and assured that Berlin is building up the Bundeswehr’s capabilities, depleted over 30 years of bungling reforms and cutbacks. His comments come amid Germany’s military modernization – the largest of its kind since WW2.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 About 30 children were taken hostage by Hamas on October 7. There is a social movement in Israel currently working on their rescue called “Free Our Kids IL.”

Dor Halevy Feldman is one of the co-founders of Free Our Kids IL. She told Sputnik a story about one of the abducted girls from a kibbutz near the Gaza border.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Almost every child in Israel has a trauma related to the current conflict, Dor Halevy Feldman, one of the co-founders of the Israeli social movement Free Our Kids IL, noted to Sputnik.

"The kids are terrified whether they know someone who was taken, whether they know someone who was murdered. They just know it. They feel even if their parents are not telling them specifically what is happening, you can feel it through the street."

Dor also told the story of little Sarah, that was successfully saved from abduction.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱 “Ten thousand people have been killed in Gaza, half of them children. The Pope’s calling for a ceasefire, the UN has called for it. I’m just asking you -” international human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik was abruptly cut off by security guards on Sunday before he could finish his question to US Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA).

Earlier this month, the progressive freshman senator broke with his colleagues, issuing a statement that “now is not the time to talk about a ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas, a Palestinian militant party that governs the Gaza Strip. “We can talk about a ceasefire after Hamas is neutralized,” he added.

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🇷🇺 Russia's military might ranked first in the world, according to US News & World Report rating

The ranking was compiled on the basis of a survey of 17,200 people in 36 countries. Seventy-three criteria were taken into account.

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