"All intensive care unit patients in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, were martyred due to lack of fuel, power outage, and the Zionist siege on Gaza" according to the Director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex. | "[Al Shifa] hospital, Israeli officials said, was spared in past Israeli operations out of concern for civilian life, but at the cost of leaving whatever may be underneath it intact. It is a mistake that Israel will not repeat this time, the officials said. They say that the complex under Al Shifa is one of the principal Israeli targets of the war and will not be left untouched, despite the growing international outcry to spare Al Shifa and other hospitals."

■ At least 22 hospitals closed in Gaza Strip (TASS)
■ Day 37: Israeli Crimes against Gaza Hospitals Proceed as Resistance Stands Firm (Al Manar TV)(VIDEOS)
■ 36 Days of Aggression: Hospitals Bombed and Displaced People Targeted in Gaza Genocide (Al Manar TV)
■ Patients Losing Lives As ‘Israeli’ Forces Attack Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital (Alahed News)
■ Jordan airdrops humanitarian aid for Gaza field hospital (TASS)
■ UN says several Gaza hospitals ‘directly hit’ (Iran Front Page)
■ Hospitals in Gaza Become Targets, Lives Lost in Tragic Act of Aggression (Al Manar TV)

■ The Horror, The Horror (Chris Hedges) | Israel's genocidal attacks, which are killing hundreds of Palestinians a day, including some 160 children, have expanded to shelling the remaining hospitals in Gaza. There are no words to express what we are witnessing. In the five weeks of horror this is one of the pinnacles of horror. The indifference of Europe is bad enough. The active complicity by the United States is unfathomable. Nothing justifies this. Nothing. And Joe Biden will go down in history as an accomplice to genocide. May the ghosts of the thousands of children he has participated in murdering haunt him for the rest of his life. We are not hated for our values. We are hated because we have no values. We are hated because rules only apply to others. Not to us. We are hated because we have arrogated to ourselves the right to carry out indiscriminate slaughter. We are hated because we are heartless and cruel. We are hated because we are hypocrites, talking about protecting civilians, the rule of law and humanitarianism while extinguishing the lives of hundreds of people in Gaza a day, including 160 children.

Felicity Arbuthnot and Prof Michel Chossudovsky | Israel has launched an invasion (October 7, 2023) of the Gaza Strip. As outlined by Felicity Arbuthnot with foresight 10 years ago in a December, 30 2013 article: “Israel is set to become a major exporter of gas and some oil, “If All Goes to Plan”." In the current context, Israel’s “All Goes to Plan” option consists in bypassing Palestine and “Wiping Gaza off the Map”, as well confiscating ALL Gaza’s maritime offshore gas reserves, worth billions of dollars. The ultimate objective is not only to exclude Palestinians from their homeland, it consists in confiscating the multi-billion dollar Gaza offshore Natural Gas reserves, namely those pertaining to the BG (BG Group) in 1999, as well the Levant discoveries of 2013.

The Israeli regime’s war on the Gaza Strip has spilled over into neighboring Lebanon and may even widen in scope, the commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Force said. | Addressing a commemorative ceremony on Monday morning, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said the Zionist regime’s brutal onslaught against Gaza proved the rightful stances of Iran and made the world realize that Israel is a child-killing criminal regime. The Israeli regime is not going to last so long, he added. Asked about Iran’s reaction to the possibility of spread of the Gaza war and the Lebanese Hezbollah’s involvement in the conflict, the general said the war has already extended and Lebanon has become entangled. “It is probable that the extent of clashes will grow even bigger. The future is vague, though Iran is prepared for all conditions,” General Hajizadeh noted.

■ Israeli jets strike south Lebanon after Hezbollah attack wounds 10 'civilians' (Naharnet/AFP)
■ Israeli drone bombs vehicle 45 kms deep inside Lebanon (11/12/23)

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak brought back former leader David Cameron as foreign minister on Monday (13 November) in a reshuffle triggered by his firing of interior minister Suella Braverman after her criticism of police threatened his authority. | It was the latest reset for a prime minister whose party is badly lagging the Labour Party before an election expected next year. The return of Cameron suggested Sunak wanted to bring in a more centrist, experienced hand rather than appease the right of his party which supported Braverman. ● It also reawakens divisive debate over Brexit: Cameron held the referendum on European Union membership in 2016 and was hated by many on the right of the party after he campaigned to remain. He quit hours after Britain voted to leave.

■ What David Cameron’s shock return means for Gaza (MEE)
■ Suella Braverman sacked as Rishi Sunak shakes up Cabinet team (Belfast Telegraph)

The Russian leader has previously told the German chancellor that Western support led Ukraine to reject any kind of engagement with Moscow | German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has indicated that he is ready for fresh talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Ukraine conflict, while stressing his position that Moscow must make serious concessions to Kiev to convince it to come to the negotiating table. Speaking to the German daily Heilbronner Stimme on Sunday, Scholz claimed that Russia’s campaign against Ukraine “is the return of imperialism in Europe,” saying that Berlin intends to support Kiev with arms and other forms of assistance “as long as necessary.”

■ Putin open to results-oriented dialogue, Kremlin says, commenting on Scholz’s remark (TASS)
■ Germany promises ‘massive’ increase in Ukraine aid (RT.com)