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• 2023 Liberian general election
□ Liberians elect their president in a run-off. Incumbent president
George Weah runs for re-election. (BBC News)
• 2023 Israel–Hamas war
□ Siege of Gaza City
☆ Al-Shifa Hospital siege
○ Gaza's two largest hospitals, Al-Shifa Hospital and Al-Quds
Hospital, both suspend operations. Israeli snipers continue to
fire at anyone near the Al-Shifa Hospital, trapping thousands
of people inside. (NPR) (Al Jazeera)
☆ Israeli troops of the Golani Brigade seize control of the
Palestinian Legislative Council building in Gaza City, which has
been used by Hamas lawmakers since 2007. (The Times of Israel)
☆ Israel bombs the Al-Salam Mosque in Sabra, increasing the total
number of mosques destroyed by Israeli forces to more than 60.
(Dawn)
□ United Nations compounds around the world lower the UN flag to
half-mast to honor the 101 UN workers who have been killed by Israeli
attacks. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
□ The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says that the Israeli Navy
damaged one of its guesthouses in Rafah, despite having shared
coordinates with Israel multiple times. (Relief Web) (Al Jazeera)
□ Director of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees Thomas White says
that humanitarian operations in Gaza will be suspended within the next
48 hours due to a shortage of fuel. (AFP via Barron's)
□ World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanoms warns of a
"dire and perilous" situation in Gaza's hospitals, saying that more
patients, including premature babies, are dying. (Al Jazeera)
□ The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics says that 3,117 students
enrolled in schools in Gaza have been killed by Israel, while 4,613
have been injured. A further 130 teachers and school administrators are
also killed. Twenty-four students have been killed in the West Bank.
(Al Jazeera)
• Myanmar civil war
□ Operation 1027
☆ The Chin National Army says that they captured a military base in
Rikhawdar, Chin State, and are currently fighting for control of
the town which is located on the border with India. More than 5,000
people flee across the border into India's Mizoram state. (Reuters)
(The Irrawaddy)
□ Fighting occurs between the military and the Arakan Army in several
townships in Rakhine State, with the Arakan Army claiming that it took
several outposts. (The Irrawaddy)
• Syrian civil war
□ Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war
☆ Russian airstrikes on rebel-held Idlib Governorate kill at least 34
fighters and injure more than 60 others, according to the Russian
Reconciliation Center for Syria. (Reuters)
• International reactions to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
□ Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf reiterates his call for an
"immediate ceasefire" in the war on Gaza, saying that "children in Gaza
don't need a pause in the killing, they need it to stop". (Al Jazeera)
□ Amnesty International says that EU countries "must" call for an
immediate ceasefire in Gaza, adding that "the expanding humanitarian
and human rights catastrophe unfolding in Gaza urgently needs to end".
(Al Jazeera)
• 2023 Israel–Hamas war protests
□ Antisemitism during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
☆ Over 182,000 demonstrators march in cities across France,
protesting the surge in antisemitic incidents since the outbreak of
the war. (CNN)
• Code of Conduct for Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States
□ For the first time in its history, the United States Supreme Court
issues a code of conduct to govern its justices. (NBC)
• LGBT rights in Austria
□ Justice Minister Alma Zadić announces the allocation of €33 million
(around US$35 million) to compensate approximately 11,000 LGBT people
affected by the country's historical discriminatory laws. (AFP via
ABS-CBN News)
• Philippine drug war
□ A Regional Trial Court grants bail to opposition leader and former
Senator Leila de Lima on her last drug case, ending her six years in
detention. (CNN)
• 2023 Polish parliamentary election
□ Poland 2050 leader Szymon Hołownia is elected as Marshal of the Sejm.
(AFP via Le Monde)
• November 2023 British cabinet reshuffle
□ Prime Minister Rishi Sunak dismisses Suella Braverman as Home Secretary
after Braverman condemned a pro-Palestinian protest in central London,
replacing her with Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and appointing
former Prime Minister David Cameron as the new Foreign Secretary. (AFP
via NDTV) (CNN)
• Censorship in Nepal
□ Nepal decides to ban TikTok, citing misuse of the app that "disturbs
social harmony and disrupts family structures and social relations."
(Al Jazeera)
• 2023 Korean Series
□ In baseball, the LG Twins defeat the KT Wiz to win the Korean Series in
five games, capturing their third championship and their first since
1994. (The Korea Herald)
• 2023 American–Middle East conflict
□ The United States launches air strikes on facilities associated with
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in eastern Syria. (CNN)
(Reuters)
• 2023 Israel–Hamas war
□ South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor urges the International
Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli prime minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, calling on the prosecutor to investigate war crimes
, crimes against humanity, and genocide. (News 24)
□ The UN Development Programme office in Gaza is shelled, with reports of
a significant number of deaths and injuries. Office chief Achim Steiner
says that "civilians, civilian infrastructure and the inviolability of
UN facilities must be always protected". (Dawn)
□ The United Nations says that several hospitals in Gaza have been
directly hit, and that "hospitals are explicitly entitled to specific
protection under international humanitarian law", as Israel intensifies
its shelling and ground attacks around hospitals in Gaza City and
northern Gaza. (OCHA) (Business Standard)
□ The cardiac ward of the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, is destroyed by
Israel's ground offensive and the hospital's intensive care unit is
severely damaged by Israeli army bombing. The World Health Organization
(WHO) says that there are reports that people who fled the hospital
"have been shot at, wounded and even killed" and calls for a
humanitarian ceasefire, saying that they are concerned about the safety
of workers and patients who remain inside the hospital. The WHO also
says that it has lost communication with its contacts inside the
hospital. (The Journal) (WHO) (Al Jazeera) (Al Jazeera 2)
□ Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong calls on Israel to stop its
attacks on hospitals, expressing concern about the number of civilian
deaths from Israel's assault on Gaza, saying that "international
humanitarian law does require the protection of hospitals, of patients
and of medical staff". (Sydney Morning Herald)
□ Palestinian Minister of Health Mai al-Kaila says that Israeli forces
"are not evacuating people from hospitals; instead, they are forcibly
evicting the wounded and patients onto the streets, leaving them to
face inevitable death". (Al Jazeera)
□ UNICEF spokesperson Toby Fricker has said the situation inside
hospitals across the Gaza Strip is a tragedy, noting how premature
babies inside Al-Shifa Hospital are struggling to stay alive due to the
lack of electricity and water. (Al Jazeera)
□ Thirteen people are killed and many others are injured in an attack on
a residential building in eastern Khan Younis. (Anadolu Agency)
□ More than 11,100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on
Gaza since the war began with Israeli forces currently intensifying
their raids in the West Bank with the number of raids increasing to
about 40 per day in the past week. (Al Jazeera)
□ The Palestine Red Crescent Society announces that the Al-Quds Hospital
in Gaza City is no longer operational due to a lack of fuel and a power
outage. (Anadolu Agency)
• Kivu conflict
□ At least six people are killed and nine others are injured by gunfire
between soldiers and pro-government militiamen near Goma, North Kivu,
Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AFP via VOA)
• War in Sudan
□ Battle of Geneina
☆ The death toll from clashes in Geneina increases to 1,300 people,
with more than 2,000 injured. The UNHCR also confirms that around
8,000 people have fled to Chad from Geneina in the past week. (Al
Jazeera) (ABC News)
□ Battle of Khartoum
☆ Heavy fighting is reported in Jabal Awliya, south of Khartoum, as
the Rapid Support Forces attempt to capture the Jebel Aulia Dam. (
Sudan Tribune)
• An under-construction tunnel collapses in Uttarakhand, India, trapping at
least 40 construction workers under the debris. (AFP via Dawn)
• Five U.S. service members are killed in a helicopter crash in the Eastern
Mediterranean during a routine training exercise. (BBC News)
• 2021–2023 North Korean missile tests
□ The defense ministers of Japan, South Korea, and the United States
agree to initiate a real-time data sharing mechanism to monitor North
Korea's missile tests. (AFP via The Manila Times)
• International reactions to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
□ The Biden administration contacts Israeli officials for clarification
over comments Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu made stating
that Israel will not agree to give up security control of Gaza, after
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken suggested that the Palestinian
Authority should take over control of Gaza once the conflict is over.
(Al Jazeera)
□ Médecins Sans Frontières says that Gaza hospitals "will become a morgue
if action isn't taken right now" as "electricity in a hospital is a
lifeline and we know without it patients die". They also called for the
"bloodshed" to end "immediately with a ceasefire or at the bare minimum
a medical evacuation of patients". (Al Jazeera)
• 2023 Israel–Hamas war protests
□ Marches calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza are held in cities
around the world. (Al Jazeera)
• 2024 United States presidential election
□ Tim Scott 2024 presidential campaign
☆ U.S. Senator Tim Scott suspends his campaign for the Republican
nomination. (AP)
• Hundreds of thousands march in Spain to protest Prime Minister Pedro
Sánchez's law granting judicial amnesties in exchange for political support
to retain power. (New York Times)
• 2023 African Football League
□ In association football, Mamelodi Sundowns F.C. wins the inaugural
African Football League after they defeat Wydad AC in the final. (beIN
Sports)
• 2023 Taiwan Series
□ In baseball, the Wei Chuan Dragons defeat the Rakuten Monkeys to win
the Taiwan Series in seven games, capturing their fifth championship
and their first since reforming as a team in 2019. (Taipei Times)