For today, links to seven reports: from Middle East Eye, the Associated Press, Reuters, Middle East Monitor, and Agence France-Presse: to commentary from Consortium News; and, via ScheerPost, to a conversation from DiEM25; others or at least headlines of others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials above and below. (GAZA 6-7-25 is HERE, or scroll down. UKRAINE, WEST BANK, LEBANON and MEDIA entries for this date are HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM
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NEWER Death toll rises to at least 31 killed across Gaza. From Middle East Eye. At least 31 people have been killed by Israeli forces across the Gaza Strip today, according to medical sources at local hospitals — up from the 21 deaths reported earlier. At least 13 Palestinians were shot and killed near an aid distribution point . . . READ MORE . . .
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Palestinians say 5 killed by Israeli fire near aid sites. Israel says it fired warning shots, by Wafaa Shurafa and Kareem Chehayeb | AP DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Palestinian health officials and witnesses say at least five people were killed and others were wounded by Israeli fire as they headed toward two aid distribution points in the Gaza Strip run by an Israeli and U.S.-backed group. Israel’s military said . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from Reuters.
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Gaza-bound aid flotilla with 12 activists on board nears Gaza coast despite Israeli warning. From Middle East Monitor. The aid ship “Madleen” has entered Egyptian waters on its way to Gaza, despite Israeli warnings to prevent it from docking, the International Committee for Breaking the Siege on Gaza said today. READ MORE . . .
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Israel orders military to block aid boat from reaching Gaza. From AFP. “I have instructed the military to prevent the Madleen flotilla from reaching Gaza,” Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said today. “To Greta the antisemite and her companions, Hamas propaganda mouthpieces, I say clearly: turn back because you will not reach Gaza.” READ MORE . . . Click HERE and HERE for reports from AP and Reuters.
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FROM JUNE 6 What happened to ‘Hamas is ISIS & ISIS is Hamas’? by Joe Lauria | Special to Consortium News Nine years before Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu was already at it, comparing Hamas with ISIS. He complained to the UN General Assembly in 2014 . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM JUNE 6 What’s really happening in Palestine. Mehran Khalili and Yanis Varoufakis of DiEM25 and Mohammed El-Kurd, a Palestinian organizer and writer, talk about events in Gaza and the West Bank, changing perceptions of them abroad, how to defeat Zionism as the world’s “last colonialist project.” Click HERE for intro and video.
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