For today, links to four reports: from Middle East Eye, Middle East Monitor, the Cradle, and Mondoweiss; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (WEST BANK 6-2-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.  GAZA, IRAN and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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U.S. warns UK and France not to recognise Palestinian state. From Middle East Eye. The U.S. has warned Britain and France against recognising a Palestinian state at a UN conference to be co-hosted later this month by France and Saudi Arabia. READ MORE . . .

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Record number of demolitions of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem in May: Israeli group. From Middle East Monitor. Left-wing Israeli organisation Ir Amim revealed yesterday that a record number of Palestinian homes were demolished by Israeli occupation forces in East Jerusalem in May. READ MORE . . .

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FROM JUNE 2  West Bank settler attacks reach 20-year high, over 220 Palestinians injured in 2025. From the Cradle. Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has reached unprecedented levels in 2025, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. READ MORE . . .

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FROM JUNE 2  Meet the Palestinian Bedouin community that no longer exists, by Qassam Muaddi | Mondoweiss  May 22, 2025, was the last day of life as they knew it for the Bedouin community of Maghayer al-Deir, which until recently used to reside east of Ramallah, in the central occupied West Bank. The 24 Palestinian families . . . READ MORE . . .

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