For today, links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, and National Public Radio, and to commentary from Substack; other articles are accessible by clicking on their sources’ names or initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date, so far, is HERE.) — MCM

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Israeli strike kills 16 in southern Gaza; no word on whether medicines reached hostages, by Najib Jobain, Bassem Mroue and Melanie Lidman | AP  RAFAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli airstrike on a home killed 16 people, half of them children, in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, medics said early today. The military continued to strike targets where it has told civilians to seek refuge. Meanwhile . . . READ MORE . . .

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Khan Younis battle threatens biggest hospital still working, by Bassam Masoud, Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams | Reuters  GAZA / DOHA — Israeli forces fighting to seize the southern Gaza Strip’s main city pounded areas near the biggest hospital still functioning in the enclave today, sending patients and residents fleeing a battle they feared would lay the city to waste. The heaviest battle of the year so far was under way in Khan Younis, a city that . . . READ MORE . . .

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What Palestinians in Gaza may fear even more than Israeli bombardment. Reported by Lauren Frayer | NPR  BEIT HANINA AL-BALAD, Israeli-Occupied West Bank — Since 1948, the extended family of 56-year-old Sakher Abu Dahouk has moved several times — from what is now Beer Sheva, Israel, to Jordan, to the Israeli-occupied West Bank — as Israel seized territory in subsequent wars, redrew boundaries and . . . Click HERE to listen and read.

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The political costs of Biden’s wars, by Seymour M. Hersh | seymourhersh.substack.com It’s doubtful President Biden understands the cost of his unwillingness to stop supplying weapons to Israel and to demand a ceasefire from Israeli President Netanyahu, who has proclaimed that Israel will continue the war until all elements of Hamas are destroyed. Netanyahu is . . . READ MORE . . .