First, link to a report from Reuters and to commentary from Middle East Monitor; other articles or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names below. (UKRAINE, YEMEN, IRAN, LEBANON, SYRIA and GAZA entries for this date, so far, are HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down. (WEST BANK 4-7-25 is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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FROM APRIL 14  EU to boost financial support for Palestinian Authority, by Andrew Gray | Reuters  BRUSSELS — The European Union will increase its financial support for the Palestinian Authority with a three-year package worth around 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion), said Dubravka Suica, the European Commissioner for the Mediterranean, in an interview. READ MORE . . .   Click HERE for same report in French.

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Funding the PA is for the benefit of Israel and the EU, not the Palestinians, by Ramona Wadi | Middle East Monitor Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas met with the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, in March. The meeting was replete with the usual hyperbole that still clings to the defunct two-state paradigm, the PA’s reform and funding for this purpose. . . . READ MORE . . .

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