Israeli army 'currently attacking targets in Lebanon,' says Adraee: Day 423 of the Gaza and Lebanon wars | An Israeli airstrike targeted an area between Houmine al-Fawqa and Deir Zahrani. A loud bang was heard, reported our correspondent in southern Lebanon.

■ After Days of Israeli Strikes on Lebanon That Violated Truce, Hezbollah Fires Back (Antiwar.com)
■ Hezbollah fires warning strike in response to Israeli violations (Al Mayadeen)
■ 'Israel' operating in accordance with 'side document' not UN Res. 1701 (Al Mayadeen)
■ Israel says 'enforcing' not violating Lebanon truce after US, French accusations (Maharnet)

Hundreds of thousands of Gazans are enduring dire conditions in makeshift shelters, says UN agency for Palestinian refugees. | The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said that more than 415,000 displaced individuals in Gaza are currently taking refuge in its school buildings. In a statement shared on social media, UNRWA posted on Sunday the testimony of Aisha, one of the many Gazan women taking shelter in a school. Expressing her exhaustion, Aisha said: "This place is meant for education, not for living."

■ Former Israeli Defense Minister Says Israel Is Carrying Out Ethnic Cleansing in Northern Gaza (Antiwar.com)
■ Israeli attacks kill 37 more Gazans as death toll nears 44,500 (Anadolu)
■ Families in Gaza are struggling to survive through engineered famine as Israeli leaders face ICC arrest warrants for war crimes (Collapse.News)

Kit Klarenberg | That foreign actors are involved in sowing the current chaos in Syria couldn’t be more unambiguous, or writ larger. But there’s more. | On November 27th, ultra-extremist militants Hayat Tahrir al-Sham launched a vast offensive in Syria. Within days, the Turkey-backed faction seized significant swaths of Aleppo, the country’s second-largest city, and advances elsewhere continue. While disinformation on the scale and success of HTS’ incursions abounds on social media, establishment news outlets remain a redoubtable source of manipulation and deceit. No context to the current upsurge of violence is provided, although reference has been widely made to supposedly “peaceful” protests in 2011 that produced the decade-long Syrian civil war. ■ According to this narrative, righteous pro-democracy demonstrators were brutally attacked by Syrian authorities for taking a public stand against dictatorship. Yet, the reality of what happened during that fateful time is very different - and amply revealed by the Syrian government’s own internal documents. Namely, records of the Central Crisis Management Cell, created in March 2011 by Damascus to manage official responses to mass rioting that began weeks earlier.

■ Syria stops terrorists from infiltrating Hama province, eliminates dozens of militants (12/01/24)

Activists continue clashing with police in Tbilisi | Pro-EU protests continued on Sunday in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, where activists clashed with riot police outside the former Soviet country’s parliament building. ● The demonstrations are backed by a coalition of opposition parties, as well as Georgia’s pro-EU president, Salome Zourabichvili, who called the current government “illegitimate.” She previously claimed that the parliamentary election in October was rigged in favor of the ruling Georgian Dream party. ● The protesters are outraged by the government’s decision to freeze negotiations on joining the EU until 2028. Prime Minister Irakli Kobakzhidze said Georgia should ultimately become a member state, but do so on fair terms. He accused the EU of using the accession talks to “blackmail” Georgia and meddle in its politics.

■ WATCH Pro-EU protesters use ‘fireworks mini-gun’ in Tbilisi (RT.com)
✅ The West Is Ramping Up Its Regime Change Campaign In Georgia (Andrew Korybko)

Which of Joe Biden's crimes did Hunter Biden threaten to reveal to thereby extort his father into pardoning him?

💬 President Joe Biden had earlier pledged not to take clemency on Hunter.
President Joe Biden gave his son, Hunter Biden, a full and unconditional pardon Sunday night.
The younger Biden had been found guilty on three felony charges in June in a federal case surrounding his acquisition and possession of a firearm, and pleaded guilty (..) to federal tax evasion charges in September.
Prior to the pardon, Hunter was facing up to 25 years in prison on firearms charges and up to 17 years in prison on tax charges.
Biden had earlier pledged not to pardon his son. “I’m extremely proud of my son Hunter. He has overcome an addiction. He is one of the brightest, most decent men I know,” the president stated in June, after his son’s conviction in his federal gun trial. “I abide by the jury decision. I will do that and I will not pardon him.”

Just asking ...

■ Rep. Congresswoman calls Biden 'liar', 'hypocrite' over son's pardon (Al Mayadeen)
■ IN BRIEF: Pardon of US president's son, Hunter Biden (TASS)
■ Joe Biden pardons his son Hunter (RT.com)
■ Russian FM Spokeswoman Calls Hunter Biden's Pardon Travesty of Democracy (Sputnik)
■ Biden PARDONS Son, Hunter . . . But There's a Twist . . . UKRAINE! (Harold Turner)

"The road to Zaporozhye will be cut soon": NATO is going to send troops to save Kiev. A "black mark" has been issued — a summary of its military personnel through the eyes of military officer | The issue with Kurakhov will be closed in the near future. The enemy will either defend the city in complete encirclement, or begin to withdraw their forces from there. He didn't have much time left. Seeing the critical situation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the front, the West is already openly talking about the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine. Supposedly, to save Kiev. In addition, the fears of Western countries are fueled by our next monthly record for occupied territory during the offensive. All this is in our summary of the unofficial news of its own. And, by the way, the road to Zaporozhye will soon be cut.

■ Russian ambassador warns UK and US that 'imminent' WW3 is on the way (TASS)
■ Signal to Moscow: London sends Zelensky a "black mark" - The Times (Pravda-EN)
■ NATO draws up plans to deploy 800,000 troops through Germany to fight Russia (Natural News)

Dr. Richard Urso shares some truth bombs about COVID-19, vaccines, lockdowns, masks | “Everything was a lie from the beginning. The asymptomatic people don’t transmit. Kids were not harbingers of the disease. They don’t actually, they’re like a break on the disease. Lockdowns were a farce. Masks don’t work.” "[If] you want to destroy your immune system, take a COVID-19 vaccine. It will destroy your immune system.