North Korea fires 60 shots at a South Korean island, sources in Seoul say. New Israeli attacks on Gaza, with Palestinian death toll rising to over 22,700. Hezbollah and Tehran are returning to threaten Israel, and Lebanese militiamen claim to have fired rockets at Israel's northern borders
North Korea fires 60 shots at South Korean island
North Korea fires another 60 artillery shells at the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong. This was reported by South Korean military sources.
Gaza, death toll rises to over 22,700
Hamas's Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip had caused the deaths of 22,722 people since the war began. This latest count includes 122 people killed in the last 24 hours, the ministry said in a statement, which also reported 58,166 injured since October 7.
Ukraine: Kiev, Russian command center in Crimea destroyed
Ukrainian forces have claimed responsibility for the destruction of a Russian command center in Crimea. “Saki airfield: all targets hit,” said Air Force Chief Mykola Oleshchuk. At the same facility last August, Ukrainian missiles destroyed several Russian aircraft parked there.
Bangladesh will vote without opposition in the general elections
Bangladesh will vote in parliamentary elections today virtually without the opposition, which boycotted the polls and reported mass arrests, and with which outgoing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is therefore hoping for a fifth mandate. Under the governments of Hasina and her party, the Awami League (Bengali People's League), Bangladesh – the eighth most populous country in the world with over 170 million inhabitants and one of the poorest in the world – experienced an economic acceleration but also a suppression of dissent and opposition, that denounce systematic violations of human and civil rights. The Awami League is contesting alone in most of the Asian country's constituencies, while it has fielded no candidates in some others, preventing the 350-seat unicameral parliament in Dhaka from having one-party representation and becoming a compliant instrument in the party's hands becomes executive. There are voters who said they were threatened that their social security cards, which they need to access welfare benefits, would be revoked if they did not vote for Hasina's Awami League. The main opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by 78-year-old Khaleda Zia, Hasina's eternal rival and two-time prime minister between 2001 and 2006, has joined other groups opposed to the government in recent months To intervene, they tried in vain to overthrow the government with waves of demonstrations, followed by a wave of arrests involving up to 25,000 executives and opposition leaders.
Ukraine: Kiev, the Russians fired 671 shots against Kherson yesterday
It was a mortar shell strike that hit the Kherson region yesterday, hit by a rocket and 112 bombing raids by the Russians, who fired 671 projectiles from mortars, tanks, drones and aircraft. The news, reported by the Ukrinform agency, was provided by Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, in a post on Telegram. According to Prokudin, the Russian army targeted residential areas in the region's settlements and an enterprise in the Kherson district: the bombing left one dead and five injured. According to the General Staff of the Kiev Armed Forces, the Russians have launched a total of five missile strikes and 25 air strikes, as well as 32 MLRS attacks against Ukrainian troop positions and populated areas in the last 24 hours.
Ukraine: Russian attacks at night in Donetsk and Khmelnytskyi
Russian forces launched two attacks on the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk overnight. The local authorities announced this and spoke of victims and damage. As local media quoted the head of the regional military administration Vadym Filashkin, “the Russian army bombed the city twice during the night, hitting an administrative building: garages and cars caught fire.” Also in the Khmelnytskyi region of Ukraine, where anti-aircraft fire was used, There were explosions during the night.
Blinken in Istanbul, talks with Fidan
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Istanbul yesterday for today's meeting with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan. Ntv reports it. The talks will focus on the war in Gaza, Sweden's NATO membership, which has not yet been ratified by the Turkish parliament, and Ankara's possible purchase of F-16 fighter jets. According to various Turkish media reports, Blinken could have a second conversation with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom he did not meet during his last visit to Ankara on November 6
Hezbollah reports rocket fire in northern Israel
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for rocket fire in northern Israel this morning in an “initial response” to the assassination of Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri. This is reported by Haaretz, citing a Hezbollah statement that 62 rockets were fired.
New warning sirens in northern Israel and the Upper Galilee
Israelis report that air warning sirens sounded again this morning in communities in northern Israel and the Upper Galilee. Ynet also states that around 40 rockets were fired from Lebanon in an earlier barrage.
Israel bombs Gaza, at least 21 victims
The Israeli raids in the Gaza Strip continue. At least 21 people died in bombings in Khan Yunis and Deir al-Balah tonight, according to Arab media.
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