🇨🇳🇰🇭 Satellite photos show massive year-over-year construction of a military base China is establishing on the Cambodian coast as part of its efforts to expand its military control around the world. It is believed to be capable of hosting Chinese aircraft carriers

🇺🇲 Updated map of naval activity in the Eastern Mediterranean, Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 The Lebanese Hezbollah publishes footage of an Israeli transport belonging to the military being hit by anti-tank missiles. Lebanese-Israeli border.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 ❗️The Israeli army said that as a result of operations in Gaza it has secured control over government buildings that were used by Hamas

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Dropping gliding FAB-250M54 with UMPC and streamlined caps on the nose to improve the aerodynamic properties of the bomb: reducing wind resistance and thereby increasing its flight range.

🇺🇲🇬🇧🇵🇸 The US and UK jointly imposed sanctions against senior Hamas and Islamic Jihad officials.

🇺🇲🇺🇦 According to the Washington Post, the US Congress is less interested in funding Ukraine now than ever.

The American publication notes that Kyiv is faced with a lack of money and time, and given other US priorities (supporting Israel and the fight against illegal immigration), all this could mean a cessation of US assistance to Ukraine.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli infantry, supported by tanks, continues to clear the northern areas of the Gaza Strip.

🛢 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 Russia And China Tighten Grip On Iraqi Oil Crescent 🇮🇶

⬛️ Lukoil’s oil service contract for the Iraqi West Qurna 2 oilfield got extended by 10 years to 2045.

⬛️ Chinese contractors working in and around the West Qurna 2 field have been instructed by Beijing to expedite their drilling work.

⬛️ ExxonMobil’s exit from West-Qurna is set to benefit both China and Russia.

🔶️ In line with Moscow and Beijing’s objective of keeping the West out of energy deals in Iraq to keep Baghdad closer to the new Iran-Saudi axis and to “end [the] Western hegemony in the Middle East [that] will become the decisive chapter in the West’s final demise,” Russia has struck a new deal in one of Iraq’s biggest oil fields. Around the same time, another Chinese company has been granted full exploration and development rights across Iraq’s oil and gas reservoirs.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Russia-And-China-Tighten-Grip-On-Iraqi-Oil-Crescent.html

🇺🇲🇮🇱🇵🇸 The IDF and Hamas are moving closer to a deal to free the hostages that would include a long pause in fighting.

CNN reports this.

Also, US President Joe Biden said that, in his opinion, an agreement could be reached on the release of hostages captured during the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7.

“I talked to the people involved every single day. I believe this will happen. But I don’t want to go into detail,” Biden told reporters at the White House.

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 💵 US Is Quietly Sending Israel More Ammunition, Missiles

⬛️ Supplying shells for Apache gunships, bunker-buster munitions

⬛️ Arms arrive on a ‘near-daily basis,’ Defense Department says

🔶️ The Pentagon has quietly ramped up military aid to Israel, delivering on requests that include more laser-guided missiles for its Apache gunship fleet, as well as 155mm shells, night-vision devices, bunker-buster munitions and new army vehicles, according to an internal Defense Department list. The weapons pipeline to Israel is extending beyond the well-publicized provision of Iron Dome interceptors and Boeing Co. smart bombs.

🔶️ The arms are already being shipped or the Defense Department is working to make them available from stockpiles in the US and Europe, according to the document reviewed by Bloomberg News. As of late October, for example, all 36,000 rounds of 30mm cannon ammunition, 1,800 of the requested M141 bunker-buster munitions and at least 3,500 night-vision devices were delivered, the tally shows.

🔶️ Israel has also requested more than 57,000 155mm High Explosive artillery shells and 20,000 M4A1 rifles, as many as 5,000 PVS-14 night vision devices, 3,000 M141 hand-held bunker-buster munitions that US Central Command is supplying, 400 120mm mortars and 75 of the Army and Marine Corps’ new Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, which is replacing the Hummer. According to the tally, the US has also donated its inventory of 312 Tamir missile interceptors. The Army’s two Iron Dome batteries are traveling to Israel by sealift.

🔶️ The weapons shipments include a reverse trip for 155mm shells. The 57,000 had been sent from US stocks in Israel to US European Command locations to restock munitions that were sent to Ukraine for its fight against Russia’s invasion. Now the restocked munitions are being sent back to Israel for its use in the conflict with Hamas, according to a congressional aide and US officials.

🔶️ Israel has also requested 200 armor-piercing Switchblade 600 dive-bombing drones made by AeroVironment Inc. Ukraine has bought the drones directly from the company. The US Army doesn’t have any Switchblade 600s in its inventory. It’s unclear whether AeroVironment has the drones in stock or would need to build them. An AeroVironment spokesperson declined to comment.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-14/pentagon-is-quietly-sending-israel-ammunition-laser-guided-missiles

https://archive.ph/oo0kq

🇷🇺🇵🇸Russian people evacuated from the Gaza Strip entered the customs control zone in Domodedovo. They speak extremely sadly about the situation in Gaza - according to them, there is no bread, no water, no electricity.