NOTE: Please see a note about access, following the links below.
For today, links to seven reports: from Reuters, the Associated Press, the Cradle, Middle East Eye, National Public Radio, and NPR affiliate American University Radio; others are accessible by clicking on their shorter names below. (GAZA 9-25-25 is HERE , or scroll down. LEBANON entry for this date is HERE, or scroll up.) — MCM
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Visual evidence overthrows Israel’s official story for deadly attack on Gaza hospital. From Reuters. A Reuters analysis of visual evidence and other information about the Israeli attack on a Gaza hospital last month contradicts Israel’s explanation of what happened in the deadly strike. The Aug. 25 attack on Nasser Hospital killed 22, including five journalists. READ MORE . . .
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At UN, amid jeers and cheers, Netanyahu says Israel ‘must finish the job’ against Hamas in Gaza, by Jennifer Peltz, Adam Geller and Farnush Amiri | AP UNITED NATIONS — Encircled by critics and protesters at the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told fellow world leaders today . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from Reuters.
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Netanyahu orders loudspeakers into Gaza to blast UN speech. From the Cradle. The Israeli army prepared in advance to broadcast Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech today at the UN via loudspeaker throughout the Gaza Strip, Haaretz reported, citing two army sources. READ MORE . . .
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UN General Assembly 2025: Diplomats storm out as Netanyahu takes podium, by Maysa Mustafa| Middle East Eye UNITED NATIONS — Scores of diplomats walked out of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly today, to protest the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Israel’s repeated attacks against several countries across the Middle East — replicating an act of protest carried out last year. READ MORE . . .
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FROM SEPT. 25 What the recognition of a Palestinian state means to Palestinians. Reported by Ari Shapiro, Linah Mohammad and John Ketchum | NPR Shapiro speaks with Noura Erakat of Rutgers University about what more countries recently announcing moves to recognize Palestinian statehood means practically to Palestinians. Click HERE to listen and read.
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FROM SEPT. 24 Multiple countries have recognized Palestine. What does that mean? Jenn White of WAMU talks with former American negotiator and Middle East analyst Aaron David Miller of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about the significance of recognition of Palestine by 157 of the 193 United Nations members — not including the United States. Click HERE to listen.
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NOTE: Some visitors to this website are seeing this page for the first time at about 1 p.m. EDT or later. Entries and additions to entries I posted yesterday evening and this morning were apparently not accessible to people visiting after that, until this afternoon. Visitors who wish to read material posted here — mostly links to reporting and commentary from elsewhere — may wish to visit again soon. (Some unwanted delays are caused by increased computer irregularities, others by factors unknown to me.) Thanks for your interest. And please keep trying to check in. — MCM