For now, links to reports from Reuters, the Associated Press, National Public Radio, Middle East Eye, and Middle East Monitor; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date, so far, is HERE.) — MCM
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Blinken in Middle East to push ceasefire while Israeli troops advance, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Daphne Psaledakis | Reuters CAIRO — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits Egypt and Israel today hoping to deliver the ceasefire that President Joe Biden proposed last month, in an all-out push by Washington to secure an end to the Gaza war. Both sides have doubled down on hardline positions that . . . READ MORE . . .
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From JUNE 9 Centrist Benny Gantz is quitting Israel’s war Cabinet, citing frustrations with Netanyahu, by Melanie Lidman | AP JERUSALEM — Benny Gantz, a centrist member of Israel’s three-man war Cabinet, announced his resignation Sunday, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of mismanaging the war effort and putting his own “political survival” over . . . READ MORE . . .
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Benny Gantz, longtime Netanyahu rival, resigns from Israel’s war cabinet. Rob Schmitz of NPR speaks with Nimrod Goren, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, about the resignation of former defense minister Benny Gantz from Israel’s war cabinet. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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FROM JUNE 9 Benny Ganz, a key member of Israel’s war cabinet, has resigned. Reported by Scott Detrow and Daniel Estrin | NPR Benny Gantz, a centrist and a political rival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accused Netanyahu of not forming a strategy to replace Hamas in Gaza. Now he’s calling for Israel to . . . Click HERE to listen and read.
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Hamas video allegedly depicts three captives killed by Israel, including U.S. citizen. From Middle East Eye. Hamas’ military wing claimed in a video on Sunday that Israeli forces killed three captives, including a U.S.citizen, in Saturday’s military operation in central Gaza that resulted in the deaths of at least 276 Palestinians. READ MORE . . .
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U.S. officials discuss negotiating with Hamas to free American hostages. From Middle East Monitor. U.S. officials have discussed the possibility of arranging a unilateral agreement with Hamas to secure the release of five American captives in Gaza if the ongoing negotiations with Israel for a ceasefire fail, Anadolu Agency reports. Such negotiations . . . READ MORE . . .
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