US military explores Gaza-area base for international force: Report
The US military has requested cost estimates for constructing a temporary installation near Gaza capable of housing 10,000 personnel, Bloomberg News reports, citing documents it reviewed relating to the matter.
White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt quickly dismissed the planning document’s significance.
“This story is based on a single piece of paper produced by random people within the military,” she said, adding that senior officials have neither considered nor approved such plans.
According to the October 31 US Navy request seen by Bloomberg, contractors would build a self-contained facility operational for one year.
An unnamed US official told Bloomberg the inquiry represents early planning for potential infrastructure supporting an international stabilization force, a proposed peacekeeping force meant to monitor the recent Israel-Hamas ceasefire.
No American personnel would be stationed at the base, the official said.
Nothing to see here, we are definitely not building a military base to protect Trump's planned tax free Billionaires riviera of the ME.
Electricity reaching Gaza is ‘zero’, says Gaza energy official
Palestinian families in Gaza are surviving without electricity, even after last month’s US-brokered ceasefire agreement, and many are relying on flashlights for basic activities and often spend nights in complete darkness, Reuters reports.
The war has destroyed more than 80 percent of Gaza’s electricity networks. “For the past two years, no electricity has reached the Gaza Strip,” said Mohammed Thabet, an official with Gaza’s electricity company.
“The amount of electricity reaching Gaza is zero,” he said.
‘You can do anything’: Israeli war crimes in Gaza aired in UK documentary
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/11/you-can-do-anything-israeli-war-crimes-in-gaza-aired-in-uk-documentary
About 30 minutes into a new documentary featuring testimonies of Israeli soldiers about being deployed to Gaza, a soldier reflects on the enclave after months of sustained Israeli war on it: “Terrible heat. Sand. Stench. And dogs wandering around in packs. They eat dead bodies … It’s horrifying … It’s a kind of zombie apocalypse. No trees. No bushes. No roads. There’s nothing.”
The documentary, Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, shown on UK network ITV yesterday, featured Israeli soldiers, some speaking of shame at having participated in what they concede is a genocide, others unflinchingly detailing the nature of that war.
Included are the details of a firing policy that takes little to no account of cause, the wholesale destruction of property and homes, the systematic use of human shields, drone warfare and indiscriminate killing tied to a weaponised system of aid.
“People don’t think about it,” one participant, credited as Eli, tells the camera. “Because if you do think about it, you’ll want to kill yourself.”
