For today, links to eleven reports: from the Associated Press, Reuters, Middle East Eye, Middle East Monitor, the Cradle, and the Sunday Times; others or headlines of others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (GAZA 5-17-25 is HERE, or scroll down.  UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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Israel launches ‘extensive’ new ground operations in Gaza as airstrikes kill at least 103 people, by Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Tia Goldenberg | AP  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israel launched “extensive” new ground operations in the Gaza Strip while airstrikes in its new offensive killed at least 103 people, including dozens of children, overnight and into today, hospitals and medics said. The strikes forced northern Gaza’s main hospital to close. READ MORE . . .  Click HERE, HERE and HERE for reports from Reuters, Middle East Eye and Middle East Monitor.

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Israel kills five journalists, over 100 civilians in one night as ‘Gideon’s Chariots’ begins in Gaza. From the Cradle. At least five Palestinian journalists and scores of civilians were killed by Israel in Gaza overnight, as Tel Aviv has intensified airstrikes on tents housing displaced people and escalated attacks on hospitals. Journalists Abdul Rahman al-Abadilah, Aziz al-Hajjar, Ahmed al-Zainati, Khaled Abu Seif, and Nour Qandeel and members of their families were killed in Israeli airstrikes on various parts of the Gaza Strip. READ MORE . . .

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Leaked proposal reveals Israeli plan to trap civilians, divide Gaza into three isolated zones: report. From the Cradle. A leaked Israeli military proposal reveals plans to divide the Gaza Strip into three separate civilian zones, each cut off by military-occupied corridors, if ongoing ceasefire talks with Hamas do not go as planned. It outlines an extensive redesign of Gaza’s internal geography, consolidating Israeli control and heavily restricting Palestinian movement. READ MORE . . .  Click HERE for report, including map, from the Sunday Times.

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FROM MAY 17  Arab League pushes for Gaza ceasefire, reconstruction at Baghdad summit. From the Cradle.  Israel’s war in Gaza dominated the agenda Saturday at the 34th Arab League Summit, which  marked a unifiedArab stance against the forced displacement of Palestinians and featured calls for a lasting ceasefire and post-war reconstruction of Gaza. READ MORE . . .  Click HERE for report from AP.

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FROM MAY 17  Israel launches a new military operation in Gaza. Netanyahu tells negotiating team to stay at talks, by Ibrahim Hazboun and Samy Magdy | AP  JERUSALEM — Israel said Saturday it launched a major military operation in the Gaza Strip to pressure Hamas to release remaining hostages, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a negotiating team to remain in Qatar for indirect talks with the militant group. READ MORE . . .  Click HERE for report from Reuters.

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