For today, links to five reports: from Reuters, the Associated Press, and Middle East Monitor, and to commentary from Middle East Eye; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date and a MEDIA entry are HERE and HERE.) — MCM
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Israel kills 23 people in north Gaza, orders evacuations in south, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters CAIRO — Israeli military strikes killed at least 23 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip today, most of them in the town of Beit Lahiya on the northern edge, medics said, as the army issued new evacuation orders in the south of the small enclave. READ MORE . . .
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Palestinians say Hamas and Fatah are close to an agreement on a committee to administer postwar Gaza, by Samy Magdy and Josef Federman | AP CAIRO — Palestinian officials say the rival factions Fatah and Hamas are closing in on an agreement to appoint a committee of politically independent technocrats to administer the Gaza Strip after the war. It would effectively end Hamas’ rule and could . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from Middle East Monitor.
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Israeli strikes kill 11 in Lebanon after fire exchanges with Hezbollah that test ceasefire’s limits, by Natalie Meltzer and Sally Abou Aljoud | AP JERUSALEM — Israel unleashed its largest wave of airstrikes across Lebanon since agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah last week, killing at least 11 people on Monday after the Lebanese militant group fired . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israel threatens to expand war if Hezbollah truce collapses, by Laila Bassam, Maya Gebeily and Steven Scheer | Reuters BEIRUT / JERUSALEM — Israel threatened today to return to war in Lebanon if its truce with Hezbollah collapses, and said this time its attacks would go deeper and target the Lebanese state itself, after the deadliest day since the ceasefire was agreed last week. READ MORE . . .
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How Israel profits from oppression, by Hamza Yusuf | Middle East Eye The Palestine Laboratory, a podcast by investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein, based on his book of the same name, explores how Israel’s military and technological advancements are used to sustain the oppression of Palestinians, while simultaneously . . . READ MORE . . .