For today, links to ten reports: from Middle East Eye, Reuters, Middle East Monitor, the Cradle, and the Associated Press; others or just headlines of others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (GAZA 6-3-25 is HERE, or scroll down. UKRAINE, SYRIA and MEDIA entries for this date are HERE, HERE, and HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM
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Israeli strike on al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City kills journalists, by Mera Aladam | Middle East Eye At least four Palestinian journalists were killed today in Israeli strikes targeting a group of media workers in Gaza City’s al-Ahli Arab hospital’s courtyard, local reporters said. READ MORE . . .
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U.S. group distributing aid in Gaza reopens sites. From Reuters. A U.S. and Israeli-backed organisation distributing aid in Gaza said today it was reopening two distribution sites a day after shutting them following a series of deadly shootings close to its operations. READ MORE . . .
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Gaza doctors give their own blood to patients after scores gunned down seeking aid, by Olivia Le Poidevin | Reuters GENEVA — Doctors in the Gaza Strip are donating their own blood to save their patients after scores of Palestinians were gunned down while trying to get food aid, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders said today. READ MORE . . .
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Rate of Gaza children suffering acute malnutrition nearly triples, survey shows, by Emma Farge | Reuters GENEVA — The rate of young children suffering from acute malnutrition in Gaza has nearly tripled since a ceasefire earlier this year when aid flowed more freely, according to data collected by humanitarian groups and released by the U.N. today. READ MORE . . .
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Israel opposition leader says Netanyahu arming ‘equivalent of ISIS’ gangs in Gaza. From Middle East Eye. Israeli opposition leader Avigdor Lieberman has accused Israeli forces, under the approval of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of arming “crime families” in Gaza. READ MORE . . . Click HERE and HERE for reports from Middle East Monitor and the Cradle.
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FROM JUNE 4 U.S. vetoes UN Security Council demand for Gaza ceasefire, by Michelle Nichols, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Crispian Balmer | Reuters UNITED NATIONS / CAIRO / JERUSALEM — The United States on Wednesday vetoed a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that demanded an “immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza and unhindered aid access across the war-torn enclave. The other 14 countries . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE and HERE for report from AP and the Cradle.
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