For today, links to eight reports: from Reuters, the Associated Press, Middle East Monitor, the Portland Press Herald, Middle East Eye, and National Public Radio; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM
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FROM SEPT. 4 Netanyahu says Israel will not leave Gaza border corridor until it is secure, by James Mackenzie and Emily Rose | Reuters JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel will only agree to a permanent ceasefire in Gaza that guarantees the border area between southern Gaza and Egypt could never be used as a lifeline for the Islamist movement Hamas. He repeated . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from AP.
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Netanyahu’s insistence on military presence in Philadelphi Corridor undermining ceasefire deal: report. From Middle East Monitor. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence on maintaining a military presence in the 14-kilometre (9-mile) Philadelphi Corridor along the Gaza-Egypt border is scuttling the possibility of a cease-fire deal, according to U.S. media, Anadolu Agency reports. READ MORE . . .
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U.S. city council votes unanimously to divest from companies doing business with Israel. From Middle East Monitor. The City Council of Portland, Maine, has voted unanimously to divest from companies doing business with Israel, as the occupation state’s near 11-month military offensive against the Palestinians in Gaza has killed 41,000 Palestinians and wounded 95,000 others. The divestment list includes . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from the Portland Press Herald.
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Israeli strike kills children playing in the street, by Maha Hussaini | Middle East Eye Tala Abu Ajwa, 10, had been playing with her neighbours outside their residential building in central Gaza City. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from NPR.
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FROM SEPT. 4 U.S. negotiators racing to present new Gaza ceasefire proposal, sources say, by Steve Holland, Jonathan Landay,Andrew Mills and Ahmed Mohamed Hassan | Reuters WASHINGTON / DOHA / CAIRO — The White House is scrambling to put forward a new proposal for a Gaza ceasefire and the release of hostages by Hamas in the coming days, two U.S. officials, according to two Egyptian security sources and an official with knowledge of the matter. The new proposal aims . . . READ MORE . . .