For today, links to reports from Reuters and National Public Radio, and to commentary via Middle East Eye; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (GAZA 10-23-25 is HERE, or scroll down. UKRAINE and MEDIA entries for this date are HERE and HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM
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From cargo hub, U.S. plots complex goal of forming international force for Gaza, by Andrew MacAskill, Alexander Cornwell and Maayan Lubell | Reuters KIRYAT GAT, Israel — The Civil-Military Coordination Center operates from a business park opposite wood and steel factories in Kiryat Gat, a city northeast of Gaza. The building also hosts Israeli, British and Canadian military personnel. READ MORE . . .
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Life in Gaza City after two weeks of ceasefire. Reported by Anas Baba and Aya Batrawy | NPR Life is slowly returning to Gaza City in the ceasefire, even as many worry war could return. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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My son was love and light, snuffed out by Israel’s machinery of death, by Ahmed Abu Artema | Middle East Eye Upstairs in my father’s house in Gaza’s Tel al-Sultan neighbourhood, an Israeli-designated “safe zone” west of Rafah city, I remember seeing my son, Abdullah, just a few months before his 13th birthday. READ MORE . . .
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