🇮🇱🇵🇸 Latest updates on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict:

▪️Hezbollah has carried out strikes on concentrations of Israeli troops on the border with Lebanon;

▪️Israel carried out series of strikes near Indonesian hospital in Gaza Strip, according to Palestine Interior Ministry;

▪️Arab League, OIC to held emergency summit in Saudi Arabia to discuss Gaza crisis;

▪️Iranian president calls on Muslim countries to arm Palestinians;

▪️Saudi crown prince called for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip;

▪️The two-state solution is the only way to end the suffering of the Palestinian people and resolve the decades-long crisis, the King of Jordan said;

▪️The occupation is under time pressure and no one else supports it except the American and British regimes, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said. All the pressure should be on the Americans, since they are the ones who govern, decide and fight this battle;

▪️Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called on the UN Security Council on Saturday to hold an international peace conference on Gaza to protect Palestinians.

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🇭🇷 Croatian Defense Minister Mario Banozic was taken to hospital on Saturday after receiving serious, but non-life-threatening injuries in a traffic accident that claimed the life of one person, Krunoslav Sporcic, director of hospital in the Croatian city of Vinkovci, said.

"Minister Mario Banozic was admitted to our hospital after a car accident at about 6:40 a.m. [05:40 GMT] today. The initial assessment showed that he has serious physical injuries, but his life is not in danger at the moment," the hospital director told the Croatian Radiotelevision broadcaster.

The hospital chief said the minister was conscious despite having a concussion. Banozic was transferred to a clinic in Osijek for neurological monitoring.

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Ex-NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen suggested accepting Ukraine into the alliance without the new Russian territories.

He believes accession of Ukraine to NATO without these territories would reduce the threat of conflict between the alliance and the Russian Federation, the Guardian newspaper has reported.

According to Rasmussen, who served as NATO chief between 2009 and 2014, such a move would send a signal to Moscow that it “cannot prevent Ukraine joining the western defensive alliance”. However, such an accession would not mean freezing the ongoing conflict, he clarified.

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Pentagon Says US Air Force Aircraft Crashed in Eastern Mediterranean

"On the evening of November 10, a US military aircraft conducting training operations in the eastern Mediterranean suffered a mishap and went down... The cause of the training incident is currently under investigation," the US European Command said in a statement.

The crash was "purely related to training," the statement also said, adding that there were no indications of "hostile activity".

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EU’s apparent inability to supply some 1 million artillery shells to Ukraine by March 2024, as the bloc originally intended earlier this year, may be stemming from the “collapse of industry” in European countries, says Jacques Sapir, director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris.

“You can also add the lack of chemicals, needed for explosives and powder. Bottom line, it was a promise that EU could not fulfil,” argues Sapir.

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🇦🇺 Australia investigating cybersecurity incident affecting maritime ports

🗣 "The Australian Government is responding to a nationally significant cyber incident impacting a number of maritime port facilities operated by DP World Australia. Today, I co-chaired a meeting of the National Coordination Mechanism, together with the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), to consider and address impacts arising from the cyber incident," Goldie said on X.

DP World Australia has limited access to its port operations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Fremantle as part of the investigation, he said, adding that disruptions might continue for several days and would affect the movement of goods in and out of the country.

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US House Speaker Johnson Proposes Funding Government Without Aid to Ukraine and Israel

🗣 "Separating out the CR from the supplemental funding debates places our conference in the best position to fight for fiscal responsibility, oversight over Ukraine aid, and meaningful policy changes at our Southern border," Mike Johnson said in a statement on Saturday.

According to the bill, part of the government programmes also related to transport, energy and military construction will be financed by 19 January, which would be the funding deadline for some programs and agencies.

White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre called the proposal "a recipe for more Republican chaos and more shutdowns", claiming that Republicans were "wasting precious time with an unserious proposal that has been panned by members of both parties".

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European countries, including those that have officially declared their refusal from Russian gas, continue to export it under existing contracts, Russian energy giant Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller said on Saturday.

"In general, as regards southern, southeastern Europe, Russian gas is still being supplied there under signed contracts. That is why, Russian gas is still in the European market, and not in small volumes. I would like to stress this is still being observed even in the countries declaring that they do not have Russian gas in their own markets," Miller told Rossiya 1 reporter Pavel Zarubin.

Russia is supplying gas via Ukrainian territory to a hub in Baumgarten, Austria, through which it is being shipped to countries of the European Union, the Gazprom CEO added.

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🇨🇳🇺🇸 As US President Joe Biden is expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the upcoming APEC Leaders' Summit in San Francisco next week, it remains to be seen what will come out of it.

While China seems to be expecting some “serious good faith efforts” from the US at this point, the United States instead seems determined to dish out “nice words” and play the “good cop, bad cop” game, says scholar and journalist KJ Noh.

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📹 Russian artillerymen hit the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with Msta-B howitzers in the Zaporozhye area

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🇩🇪 Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling coalition agrees to double military aid to Ukraine in 2024 to 8 billion euros, Bloomberg reports

Should the bill be approved by parliament where Scholz’s coalition has a majority, the boost will be higher than the goal of 2% of GDP set by NATO members.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israeli forces kill more than 60 members of Lebanese Hezbollah movement since beginning of hostilities in Gaza Strip, IDF says

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 The IDF has dismantled more than 150 underground tunnels and complexes in the Gaza Strip used by the Palestinian movement Hamas, spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said.

Such underground structure is a "backbone" of Hamas’ combat capabilities, as the movement uses it to hide and come out unexpectedly, he added.

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