For now, links to a report from the Associated Press and to commentary from Declassified Australia via Consortium News; other articles are accessible by clicking on their names below. (MEDIA, WEST BANK and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down. GAZA 2-25-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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FROM FEB. 25  Israel and Hamas agree on new exchange, leaving fragile ceasefire intact, by Josef Federman and Abby Sewell | AP  JERUSALEM — Israeli and Hamas officials said Tuesday they have reached an agreement to exchange the bodies of dead hostages for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, keeping their fragile ceasefire intact for at least a few more days. READ MORE . . .

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FROM FEB. 18  The global spread of Palestine’s agony, by Antony Loewenstein | Declassified Australia / Consortium News  Palestine is an occupied land and people used as a testing ground for the most sophisticated forms of Israeli weapons and surveillance tech. The mass slaughter in Gaza after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel is just the latest example of the Israeli state and defence companies profiting from disaster. READ MORE . . .

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