For today, links to four reports: from Middle East Monitor, Wafa, Middle East Eye, and the Anadolu Agency, and to commentary from Jonathan-Cook.net via Consortium News; other articles are accessible by clicking on their names below. (UKRAINE and SYRIA entries are HERE and HERE.) — MCM

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At least 34 Palestinians killed in unabated Israeli attacks in Gaza. From Middle East Monitor. At least 34 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in Israeli attacks targeting a school housing displaced families, homes, and tents in displacement camps across the Gaza Strip, medical sources said today, Anadolu reports. READ MORE . . .  Click HERE for report from Wafa.

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Israeli strikes kill Palestinian journalist and rescuers in central Gaza. From Middle East Eye. The Qatar-based Al Jazeera media network reports that Israeli air strikes today killed three members of the Palestinian civil defence search-and-rescue team and one of its own cameramen,  Ahmad al-Louh, in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp. READ MORE . . .

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Corpses pile up in northern Gaza as Israel continues deadly onslaught, by Amer Solyman | Anadolu Agency  GAZA CITY, Palestine  Citing “large numbers of dead bodies in the streets that can’t be reached,” a Palestinian medic today warned of an “environmental catastrophe” in northern Gaza. READ MORE . . .

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FROM DEC. 12  The day the media decided militant jihadism is OK, by Jonathan-Cook | Jonathan-Cook.net / Consortium News  Here is a very strange thing. For years, Western media outlets and politicians have been recklessly indifferent to the fact that Hamas is not a jihadist movement, like . . . READ MORE . . .