For today, links to eightreports: from Reuters, Middle East Eye, the Associated Press, Middle East Monitor, and the Cradle; others or at least headlines of others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below, (SYRIA, MEDIA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down. GAZA 3-13-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM
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Israeli airstrike kills nine people in north Gaza town, medics say, amid ceasefire disputes, by Nidal al-Mughrabi | Reuters CAIRO — At least nine Palestinians were killed, including two local journalists, and others wounded today in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza’s northern Beit Lahiya town, Gaza’s health ministry said, as . . . READ MORE . . .
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Hamas says it will only release American-Israeli captive if Israel ends blockade From Middle East Eye. A senior Hamas official has said the group will only release American-Israeli captive Edan Alexander and the bodies of four other captives if Israel agrees to the existing ceasefire agreement. READ MORE . . .
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Tensions rise between Washington, Tel Aviv over U.S.-Hamas talks. From Middle East Monitor. U.S. and Israeli officials are attempting to contain the escalating tensions behind the scenes following the unprecedented direct talks held by the U.S. Trump administration with the Palestinian movement Hamas . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for related report from Middle East Monitor.
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FROM MARCH 14 Hamas says it will release a U.S.-Israeli hostage and 4 bodies, but Israel expresses immediate doubt, by Julia Frankel | AP JERUSALEM — Palestinian militant group Hamas said Friday it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual nationals who had died in captivity. The Israeli prime minister’s office . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE and HERE for reports from Middle East Monitor and the Cradle.
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FROM MARCH 13 Hamas welcomes UN report on Israel’s genocidal acts as Tel Aviv decries ‘blood libel.’ From the Cradle. Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says a damming report by the UN Commission of Inquiry into Israel’s abuses inside Gaza “confirms the atrocity” committed by the occupation army with support from the west. READ MORE . . .
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