For today, links to reports from Middle East Monitor, Middle East Eye, and Reuters; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM

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FROM JULY 20  No safe haven in Gaza Strip: Palestinian Interior Ministry. From Middle East Monitor. The Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza announced Saturday that the Israeli army has been ramping up psychological pressure on residents by urging them to evacuate their homes in northern governorates and move to the south, but “there are no safe areas throughout the Gaza Strip. In recent days . . . READ MORE . . .

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Thousands remain missing in Gaza among the destruction from Israel’s assault, by Maha Hussaini | Middle East Eye  Thousands of Palestinians have gone missing in Gaza since the onset of Israel’s war on the enclave, leaving families in the dark about their loved ones’ fates amid the ongoing ground invasion and bombardment . “After my house . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM JULY 20  Israeli settlers court Republican religious right after Hamas attacks, by Jonathan Saul and Simon Lewis | Reuters  ALON SHVUT, West Bank — U.S. delegations’ visits to Jewish settlements in the West Bank are helping align the views of senior Republican Party officials with settlers and the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the wake of Oct. 7, according to a settler and Israeli political consultant who often hosts such visits. READ MORE . . .