Links to a report from the Associated Press and to an interview from the Chris Hedges Report via Consortium News; other published material is accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up or down for LEBANON, UKRAINE, IRAN and MEDIA, and down for GAZA 5-15-26.) — MCM

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Israel says it killed the leader of Hamas’s military wing. From AP. JERUSALEM — Israel’s army said Friday it has killed Izz al-Din al-Haddad, one of the senior commanders in Hamas’s military who had directed the planning and execution of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel. READ MORE . . .

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FROM MAY 15  A history of Palestinian resistance. Chris Hedges of the Chris Hedges Report talks with author and historian Ramzy Baroud about his and his family’s experiences in the Palestinians’ powerful resistance to Zionism, today’s national liberation movement, and his new book, Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir Across Three Generations of Colonial Invasion, Occupation, and War in Palestine. Click HERE for video of their conversation, a transcript, and a print commentary by Hedges. 

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