Doctors in Gaza describe the war's devastating impact on health care — and civilians (www.npr.org)
North Korea provided Russia with weapons, White House says (archive.ph)
Turkey says 'intensive contacts' underway to free Israel's hostages with Hamas (www.al-monitor.com)
Iran-backed Hezbollah joining Israel-Hamas conflict would be a ‘game changer,’ Middle East expert says (www.cnbc.com)
Hezbollah operates as both a political party and paramilitary group and is designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization....
Blinken warned lawmakers Azerbaijan may invade Armenia in coming weeks (www.politico.com)
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Reuters videographer killed in southern Lebanon [by Israeli strike], other journalists injured (www.politico.com)
The Associated Press reported that an Israeli shell landed among a group of international journalists killing the Reuters journalist and injuring six others.
French authorities link a school stabbing that killed a teacher to Islamic extremism (apnews.com)
A man of Chechen origin who was under surveillance by French security services over suspected Islamic radicalization stabbed a teacher to death at his former high school and wounded three other people Friday in northern France, authorities said.
Blinken says Israeli actions are not retailatory but defensive (www.cnn.com)
Sydney police plan to use ‘extraordinary’ powers to search pro-Palestinian protesters and demand ID (www.theguardian.com)
BBC journalists held at gunpoint by Israeli police (www.bbc.co.uk)
Scores killed in Israeli air strikes on families fleeing northern Gaza (www.middleeasteye.net)
Israel-Palestine war: Bodies piling up in the streets as Gaza onslaught escalates (www.middleeasteye.net)
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Stunning State Department Memo Warns Diplomats: No Gaza 'De-Escalation' Talk (www.huffpost.com)
In messages circulated on Friday, State Department staff wrote that high-level officials do not want press materials to include three specific phrases: “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm.”...
Israel’s evacuation order for Gaza ‘death sentence’ for patients, WHO says (www.aljazeera.com)
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Ferdinand Marcos Jr drops Philippines holiday marking toppling of father (www.theguardian.com)
Human Rights Watch says Israel used white phosphorus in Gaza, Lebanon (www.reuters.com)
Get out of Gaza City, Israel's military tells Palestinians (www.cbc.ca)
‘Most cherished friend’: UK unearths messages from (Barclays') Staley to Epstein (archive.ph)
US defense secretary is in Israel to meet with its leaders and see America’s security assistance (apnews.com)
S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is in Israel on Friday for meetings with senior government leaders and to see firsthand some of the U.S. weapons and security assistance that Washington rapidly delivered to Israel in the first week of its war with the militant Hamas group....
Argentina central bank hikes key rate to 133% as inflation worsens (www.reuters.com)
Hamas tells Gaza City residents to stay put after Israel orders evacuation (www.theguardian.com)
Hamas has called on Palestinians to stay in their homes after Israel issued sweeping evacuation orders for almost half of Gaza’s more than 2.3 million people ahead of an expected ground offensive....
Israel Gaza: UK to deploy Royal Navy ships to eastern Mediterranean to 'bolster security' (www.bbc.co.uk)
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