Links to reports from  the Cradle and Middle East Monitor; others are accessible by clicking on their names. (Scroll up for today’s YEMEN and IRAN, and down for GAZA 10-9-26.) — MCM

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Israel expands occupation, strikes in Gaza on first anniversary of U.S. ‘ceasefire.’ From the Cradle. Israeli occupation forces expanded their presence in Gaza and escalated their bombing of the besieged strip on Sunday, coinciding with the one-year anniversary of U.S. President Donald Trump’s so-called ceasefire, which has seen Tel Aviv continue genocide and kill nearly 1,500 Palestinians. READ MORE.

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Israeli soldiers say ordered to drop heavy bombs on inhabited Gaza buildings without evacuation: report. From Middle East Monitor. Four Israeli military intelligence soldiers acknowledged they received instructions to use “heavy bombs” against inhabited buildings in the Gaza Strip without evacuating residents first, in strikes that killed and injured hundreds of Palestinians, according to a media report today. READ MORE.

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