For today, a map from OnTheWorldMap.com and links to eight reports: from the Associated Press, Reuters, and the Cradle; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (UKRAINE, LEBANON, SYRIA, IRAN and YEMEN entries for this date are HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down.  GAZA 4-8-25 is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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Israeli strike on Gaza apartment building kills at least 23, officials say, by Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | AP  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli aircraft struck a residential block in war-ravaged northern Gaza today, killing at least 23 people including eight women and eight children, health officials said. Renewed fighting in the devastated Palestinian enclave . . . READ MORE . . .  Click HERE and HERE for later reports from Reuters and Middle East Eye.

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Six weeks since Israel imposed total Gaza blockade, last food is running out, by Nidal al-Mughrabi, Olivia Le Poidevin and Hatem Khaled | Reuters CAIRO / GENEVA / GAZA — Six weeks since Israel completely cut off all supplies to the 2.3 million residents of the Gaza Strip, food stockpiled during a ceasefire at the start of the year has all but run out. Emergency meal distributions are ending, bakeries are closed, markets are empty. READ MORE . . .

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FROM APRIL 8  UN Secretary General Guterres rejects new Israeli plan to control Gaza aid. From Reuters. No aid has been delivered to the Palestinian enclave of some 2.1 million people since March 2. Israel has said it would not allow goods and supplies to enter Gaza until the Palestinian militant group Hamas released all remaining hostages. READ MORE . . .

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Israel plans to seize all of Rafah for Gaza ‘buffer zone’: report. From the Cradle. Israel is planning to incorporate the Gaza Strip’s southernmost city of Rafah and its surrounding areas into the buffer zone it has created along the strip’s border, which will include the barring of residents from returning to their homes, Haaretz reports. READ MORE . . .   Click HERE for report from Middle East Eye.

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FROM APRIL 8  Netanyahu-Trump meeting reveals unexpected gaps on key issues, by Tia Godenberg | AP  TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Washington this week for a hastily organized White House visit bringing a long list of concerns: Iran’s nuclear program. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The surging influence of rival Turkey in Syria. And the 18-month war in Gaza. READ MORE . . .

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