For today, a link to reports from National Public Radio and Antiwar.com; others are accessible by clicking on its initials below. (SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll down.  WEST BANK 2-23-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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Israel delays Palestinian prisoner release, while sending tanks to occupied West Bank. Reported by Kat Lonsdorf and Leila Fadel | NPR  Israel delayed a Palestinian prisoner release, accusing Hamas of “humiliating” hostages, while also sending tanks into the occupied West Bank for the first time in decades. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.

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FROM FEB. 20  Netanyahu orders West Bank escalation after empty buses explode in Israel, by Dave DeCamp | Antiwar.com / ScheerPost  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a massive escalation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank after three empty buses exploded in the Israeli city of Bat Yam near Tel Aviv, The Times of Israel reported on Thursday. READ MORE . . .

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