Links to reports from the Cradle and Middle East Monitor; others are accessible by clicking on their names. (Scroll up or down for UKRAINE, LEBANON, GAZA, IRAN, CUBA and MEDIA, and down for WEST BANK 5-27-26.) — MCM

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Tel Aviv advances de facto annexation of occupied West Bank with massive settlement expansion. From the Cradle. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich today announced a new and major illegal settlement project in the occupied West Bank, which aims to see the construction of around 2,000 houses on Palestinian land. READ MORE . . .

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Israel orders seisure of 30 hectares of Palestinian land in southern West Bank: official. From Middle East Monitor. Israeli authorities have issued a military order to seize 30 hectares (74 acres) of Palestinian land near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank under the pretext of expropriation for public purposes, a Palestinian official said on Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reports. READ MORE . . .

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