For today, links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, the Cradle, Middle East Eye, and National Public Radio; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (GAZA 9-26-25 is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM
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Airstrikes and shooting kill at least 44 people in Gaza as Israel ignores demands for a ceasefire, by Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | AP DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 44 people across Gaza, health officials said today, as international pressure grows for a ceasefire but Israel’s leader remains defiant about continuing the war. Among the dead . . . READ MORE . . .
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Hamas says it has not received Trump plan as Israel expands Gaza City assault, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi and May Angel | Reuters CAIRO / RAMALLAH Hamas has not received U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan, the Palestinian group which runs the enclave said today as Israeli forces expanded their assault on Gaza City – this after Israeli newspaper Haaretz cited sources . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM SEPT. 26 Tony Blair in talks to lead U.S.-backed ‘supreme authority’ for Gaza: report. From the Cradle. Tony Blair, the former British prime minister who led the UK to illegally invade Iraq, is seeking a “senior role” in running postwar Gaza under a plan being proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people briefed on the proposal. READ MORE . . .
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FROM SEPT. 26 Netanyahu says all Israelis reject Palestinian state, denounces Gaza genocide as ‘blood libel,’ by Sean Mathews | Middle East Eye Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a combative speech to a nearly empty UN General Assembly hall on Friday, where he portrayed himself as the standard-bearer of mainstream Israel in rejecting the creation of a Palestinian state and denouncing Israel’s genocide in Gaza as “a joke.” He criticized . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM EARLIER ON SEPT. 26 At the UN, Prime Minister Netanyahu is defiant as Israel’s isolation grows. Reported by Jackie Northam | NPR Outcry over the war in Gaza leaves Israel diplomatically isolated as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to address the U.N. Click HERE to listen and read.
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