For today, links to just three reports: from Middle East Eye and National Public Radio; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (YEMEN, WEST BANK, UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll down.  GAZA 4-4-25 is HERE, or scroll up or down.) — MCM

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Day’s death toll rises to 27 as six more killed in Israeli attack on Khan Younis. From Middle East Eye. Six Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attack in the Qizan Abu Rashwan neighbourhood in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis. Medical sources say this brings the death toll since dawn to 27.

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New video evidence disputes Israeli army’s account of medic killings. From Middle East Eye. New video evidence relating to the killing of 15 Palestinian rescue workers by Israeli forces has emerged, contradicting the Israeli account of the attack on a medical convoy in Rafah last week. It was retrieved from a phone belonging to one of the medics who was killed. READ MORE . . .

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Tensions are rising in the Middle East again, and the U.S. is deeply involved. Reported by Greg Myre and Scott Simon | NPR  Just a couple of months ago, the Middle East seemed to be calming down, at least a bit. But now the region is heating up again, and the U.S. is very deeply involved. READ MORE . . .

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