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Civil defence took about 1,500 distress calls in the first 10 hours and says it doesn't have a single tarpaulin or tent to hand out. Gaza's emergency committee says more than a million displaced people are facing winter and the Strip needs about 200,000 tents, plus heating supplies.

Israeli authorities are holding his body, the Palestinian health ministry said. WAFA said troops also detained his father and three Palestine Red Crescent volunteer medics, and kept ambulance crews from reaching him before his death was announced. The army said soldiers fired at people it said were planning to throw stones at a highway.

He's been making this case since February, when he told US TV that Iranians "only respond to the language of respect." It comes after Trump met Qatar's prime minister, the main go-between, on Monday and said Qatar and Saudi Arabia "would rather see a peaceful solution," while adding the US is "ready to go anytime we want" with strikes.

🇮🇱⚡️ The opposition Change Bloc in Israel has agreed to appoint Matan Kahana of the Yesh Atid party as Speaker of the Knesset.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️ Health Ministry in Sanaa says one citizen was killed and three others injured in an attack on the Al-Mafazer Gas Company in the Jadar area of Bani al-Harith district in the capital. The ministry attributes the attack to Saudi Arabia.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️ A Palestinian was reported killed by Israeli army gunfire in the Batn al-Samin area south of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian sources.

FRANCE SAYS IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD HACKED THE FRIDGES IN MORE THAN 700 OF ITS SUPERMARKETS It happened over two nights in October, the 11th and the 12th. The attackers got into the digital controllers that run supermarket refrigeration. Then they turned the temperature up. Above 50C, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot says. Some sites caught fire. Many stores had to throw out every perishable thing they had. France's foreign ministry puts the food losses at several tens of millions of euros. Now Paris has put a name on it. Shahid Kaveh, a cyber unit tied to the IRGC's electronic and cyber centre. The ministry calls it the first cyber campaign on French soil carried out purely for sabotage. Barrot's words: "unprecedented in both its scale and its level of aggression." Here is what France is doing about it. Iran's ambassador is being summoned. France will ask its EU partners for new sanctions on the people and entities involved. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau has opened an investigation into the unit, and wants international arrest warrants for two of its officials. And Barrot says France rules "nothing" out, including measures it won't disclose. It may not stay a French story. On November 2, stores in at least nine other European countries were hit by a suspected attack on their freezer systems. There was no immediate comment from Tehran.

A REPUBLICAN IS FORCING THE HOUSE TO VOTE ON IMPEACHING PETE HEGSETH, AND MOST OF THE CHARGES ARE ABOUT IRAN Thomas Massie of Kentucky stood on the House floor on Monday and read out his resolution against the defense secretary. Eight articles of impeachment. Three are about the Iran war alone. The first says the war was unlawful from day one: no declaration of war, no authorization from Congress, no attack on the United States. The second says Hegseth kept fighting after both chambers directed US forces out, through H. Con. Res. 86. The third says he blew through the War Powers Resolution's 60-day clock. The other five reach well beyond Tehran. The strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, which the resolution ties to at least 243 deaths. The seizure of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. A Yemen operation launched without congressional approval. Ignoring laws meant to limit civilian casualties. And the move to punish Senator Mark Kelly over a video telling troops they can refuse illegal orders. Massie tried this once already, in September. Speaker Mike Johnson sent the House home early, and the resolution expired. This time the clock is harder to dodge. As a privileged resolution, it has to come up within two legislative days. Hakeem Jeffries says he's a "hard yes." With a narrow Republican majority, a handful of Republican votes would be enough. Getting Hegseth out of office is a different matter. That takes two-thirds of the Senate.

🇱🇧⚡️ An airstrike targeted the town of Al-Qantara in southern Lebanon.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️ The Yemeni Ministry of Health reported that 6 citizens were injured and homes were damaged after a Saudi strike targeted an oil company in the Al-Sitteen Al-Janoubi area of the capital Sanaa.

OCTOBER WAS THE WORST MONTH OF ATTACKS IN THE WEST BANK SINCE THE UN STARTED COUNTING IN 2006 The UN humanitarian office, OCHA, logged 457 attacks in October that caused casualties or damage. No month in its records comes close. The olive harvest is where it shows most. 377 harvest-related attacks since September 1. More than any season before it. This is what one week looked like. November 4: about 30 settlers, backed by the settler group Nachala, moved into Ein al-Duyuk al-Tahta near Jericho and took over eight Palestinian homes. The settlers say they bought them. Jericho Governor Hussein Hamayel calls the sale a forgery. The same day, 21 structures belonging to three families were demolished in the northern Jordan Valley. Five homes in Biddu followed the next day. November 5: olive groves set on fire in Burqa, northwest of Ramallah, while residents were stopped from putting them out. November 8: three young men beaten with clubs near Salfit. And now a different Burqa, the one near Nablus. Moataz Iyad Daghlas was 14. Israeli soldiers shot him dead in a raid on the village. A 17-year-old was hit in the abdomen and pelvis, a 19-year-old in the hand. The army says soldiers fired to stop stone-throwing at Israeli vehicles. The Palestinian Health Ministry says Israel is holding his body. The UN count since October 7, 2023: at least 1,143 Palestinians killed in the West Bank. 250 of them children.

WAFA said dozens of settlers came in through the Mughrabi Gate and performed rituals in the eastern part of the compound, near the Dome of the Rock. Under the decades-old status quo, with the site administered by Jordan's Islamic Waqf, non-Muslims may visit but not pray there.

Two refueling tankers using Mildenhall diverted to Germany that morning, and several more left later in the day. The US also raised security at Mildenhall and nearby Lakenheath to FPCON Charlie, the level used when intelligence indicates some form of attack is likely. The Gang of Eight was briefed Monday on Iran's threats to the homeland.

BRENT IS NOW ABOUT 22% BELOW ITS OCTOBER 30 HIGH, AND ASIAN STOCKS ARE RIPPING HIGHER ON IT Ten days ago Brent touched $118. A six-month high. It settled at $92.57 on Monday. In Asian trade on Tuesday it slipped again, to around $91.56. The lowest since early September. The trigger was one sentence from Trump: US military action against Iran is not necessary "at this point." Then the money moved. South Korea's Kospi: up 4%. Taiwan's Taiex: up 3.4%. Japan's Nikkei: up 2.6%, back above 60,000. Australia's ASX 200: up 1.1%. SoftBank alone jumped 15% ahead of its earnings. Cheaper oil eased inflation worries, and that was enough. But read the fine print. Trump is keeping the naval blockade in place for now. Eurasia Group's Gregory Brew says Brent is unlikely to fall below $90 "without more durable signs of de-escalation and a US-Iran deal." ATFX Global's Nick Twidale warned markets may have "moved too far, too quickly." His warning: if negotiations falter, prices could see "a substantial rebound."

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️ A 14-year-old boy was killed by Israeli army fire while collecting stones near the village of Burqa in Nablus Governorate.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡️ President Trump told Iraqi Prime Minister al-Zaidi over the phone that he would target Iran-aligned armed factions in Iraq and their leaders if they joined the war in support of Iran. He also pressed al-Zaidi to bring the groups under state control. According to An-Nahar.

A drone attack on the Khor Mor gasfield in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region late on Sunday sparked a fire and suspended gas supplies to several power stations, according to regional officials, Al Jazeera reports. The attack initially reduced electricity generation in Kurdistan Regional Government-administered areas by between 2,500 and 2,800 megawatts. Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has ordered a joint investigative committee with KRG authorities, and no group has claimed responsibility.

LEBANON'S DIRECT TALKS WITH ISRAEL ARE FROZEN AT ROUND EIGHT, AND BEIRUT IS WAITING ON TWO ELECTIONS Seven rounds happened. The eighth was suspended. Three things broke it: the withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon, how to carry out the US-brokered framework agreed in June, and who checks that anyone is complying. Now Beirut is watching two ballot results. The US midterms. And an Israeli election that still hasn't produced a government. One Lebanese official called this "a transitional phase." A source close to Hezbollah told Arab News the midterm results will likely "reduce the chances of a new round of direct negotiations in the near future," and that Hezbollah expects no decision on the talks until next year. The group opposes direct talks in the first place. Hezbollah MP Ali Fayyad went further: "The outcome of the confrontation has not yet been decided." On the other side, five embassies stepped in. The US, UK, Australia, Canada and Japan issued a joint statement backing President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, and the state's sole control over weapons and decisions of war and peace. It landed while a judge is investigating a shipment of explosives linked to Hezbollah. Meanwhile, in the south, an Israeli drone dropped a stun grenade near farmers picking olives outside Deir Mimas. Nobody was hurt. Farmers in the affected areas need permission through the ceasefire monitoring mechanism just to reach their own land.

COP31 OPENS IN ANTALYA, AND THE HOST'S FIRST MESSAGE IS ABOUT MONEY, NOT TARGETS Turkey is hosting the UN climate summit for the first time. It runs to November 20. Australia chairs the negotiations. Turkey's environment minister, Murat Kurum, holds the presidency, and he set the tone in one line: "Now our promises must be backed by capital." Look at what has already been promised. At Baku, COP29: at least $300 billion a year for developing countries by 2035, with rich nations taking the lead. And a wider goal of $1.3 trillion a year from public and private money combined. At Belem, COP30: triple adaptation finance, to somewhere between $85 billion and $120 billion a year. Few here expect bigger targets. Singapore's environment minister, Grace Fu, said so plainly: "We are not expecting a major upgrade in mitigation targets." UN climate chief Simon Stiell called progress "nowhere near fast or fair enough," and pointed to the "immense frustration" poorer countries face just getting access to money already committed. Kurum's answer is a "Climate Implementation Bridge": not a fund, a matchmaker between projects and investors. His other headline goal is "35-by-35": electricity at 35% of global final energy use by 2035. Voluntary. It creates no new obligation for any country. More than 160 agenda items. 60 negotiating mandates. Twelve days.

In 2004 the International Court of Justice found that building the wall inside occupied Palestinian territory is contrary to international law and that Israel must dismantle those sections. The UN General Assembly backed the ruling 150 to 6, and the wall is still standing more than two decades later.