For now, links to four reports: from Reuters, the Cradle, Middle East Monitor, and the Electronic Intifada; others or headlines only are accessible by clicking on their names below. (UKRAINE, SYRIA and IRAN entries for this date are HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down.  GAZA 4-11-25 is HERE, and a map is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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Israeli forces have completed encirclement of Gaza’s Rafah, military says, by Maayan Lubell and Nidal al-Mughrabi | Reuters  JERUSALEM — It is part of an announced plan to seize more areas of the enclave, accompanied by large-scale evacuations of the population. The military has issued repeated evacuation warnings to . . .  READ MORE . . .   Click HERE and HERE for April 12 and April 11 reports from the Cradle (including an April 7 video from the Electronic Intifada) and from EI.

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FROM APRIL 11  Israeli evacuation orders leave Palestinians with less than a third of Gaza to live in: UN. From Middle East Monitor. A UN spokesperson said Israel on Friday issued “two new displacement orders covering vast areas in northern and southern Gaza,” in which are located “medical facilities and storage sites containing critical supplies.” The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says more than two-thirds of the Gaza Strip is either under active displacement orders or designated as no go zones. READ MORE . . .  Compare with April 11 report from National Public Radio HERE.

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