For today, links to two reports: from Middle East Eye and Middle East Monitor; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (IRAN, LEBANON, GAZA, SYRIA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down. (WEST BANK 3-12-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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Gulf states linked to Israeli businesses on UN settlements blacklist, by Simon Hooper and Dania Akkad | Middle East Eye  An investment firm headed by Jared Kushner and backed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates is the largest shareholder in an Israelicompany which in turn holds shares in businesses accused by the United Nations of operating in illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. READ MORE . . .

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UN Rapporteur Albanese says ‘ethnic cleansing’ is happening in occupied West Bank. From Middle East Monitor. The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, said in an interview Sunday that what is happening in the West Bank is the “litmus test” of Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign against the Palestinians, with the occupation regime . . . READ MORE . . .

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