For today, links to eight reports: from Antiwar.com, Anadolu Agency, Reuters, the Associated Press, and National Public Radio, and to commentary from To The Point Analyses and Middle East Monitor; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initals below. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM
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FROM OCT. 21 Dozens of Palestinians killed as Israel intensifies attacks on northern Gaza, by Dave DeCamp | Antiwar.com / ScheerPost Dozens of Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in northern Gaza on Monday as Israel is intensifying its attacks on the area in an effort to forcibly displace hundreds of thousands of civilians as part of an ethnic cleansing plan. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for Anadolu Agency report.
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War has knocked Gaza back to the 1950s, UNDP says, by Thomas Escritt | Reuters BERLIN — The war between Israel and Hamas has devastated the Palestinian economy and left nearly all of Gaza’s population in poverty, with quality of life indicators such as health and education knocked back 70 years, the United Nations’ development agency said today. READ MORE . . .
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FROM OCT. 21 Israel says more strikes are coming against a Hezbollah-run financial institution, by Sarah el Deeb and Samy Magdy | AP BEIRUT— Israel said late Monday it planned to carry out more strikes in Lebanon against a Hezbollah-run financial institution that it targeted the night before and which it says uses customers’ deposits to finance attacks against Israel. At least 15 branches . . . READ MORE . . .
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What is the Hezbollah-linked financial institution Israel is targeting in Lebanon? by Bassem Mroue | AP BEIRUT — The Israeli military has carried out a wave of airstrikes targeting branches of a financial institution affiliated with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, saying the quasi-banking system is being used to fund the militant group’s military wing. They destroyed . . . READ MORE . . .
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Blinken in Israel in last big ceasefire push before U.S. election, by Humeyra Pamuk, Maayan Lubell and Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters TEL AVIV / JERUSALEM / CAIRO — Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today in the first big U.S. push for a Middle East ceasefire since Israel killed the leader of Hamas last week — and the last attempt before a presidential election that could upend U.S. policy. He faces . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from AP.
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FROM OCT. 21 Blinken heads off on another visit to Middle East as conflict spreads. Reported by Michele Kelemen | NPR Israeli forces killed the Hamas leader in Gaza last week and they’ve been pressing their offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon too. Israel is also poised to strike Iran. Click HERE to listen and read.
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FROM OCT. 8 One dimensional reporting, by Lawrence Davidson | To The Point Analyses / Consortium News The mainline media is managed by people acculturated to their society’s dominant storyline — and all the myriad prioritized sub-storylines that are supposed to explain events both domestic and foreign. What are the consequences? READ MORE . . .
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FROM OCT. 21 Netanyahu arrest warrant and the ICC: Is the delay a denial of justice? by Sondos Asem | Middle East Eye It has been five months since the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, requested an arrest warrant for Israeli and Hamas leaders over allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity during Israel’s war on Gaza and the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on . . . READ MORE . . .