For today, links to reports from Reuters, the Associated Press, and National Public Radio, followed by three pieces of commentary via Popular Resistance; other articles are accessible by clicking on their sources’ names or initials below. (The UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM
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Lebanon mourns two journalists killed in Israeli air strike. From Reuters. BEIRUT — Hundreds of mourners paid their respects in Beirut today to two reporters — correspondent Farah Omar and camera operator Rabih al-Maamari — killed Tuesday in an Israeli air strike on south Lebanon. They worked for the pan-Arab station Al Mayadeen. The Committee to Protect Journalists said the deaths added to a toll of. . . READ MORE . . .
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Israeli Cabinet approves cease-fire with Hamas that includes release of some 50 hostages, by Josef Federman and Jack Jeffrey | AP JERUSALEM — Israel’s Cabinet on Wednesday approved a temporary cease-fire with the Hamas militant group that is expected to bring the first halt in fighting in a devastating six-week war and win freedom for dozens of hostages held captive in the Gaza Strip. The deal calls for a four-day cease-fire, during which Israel will halt its military offensive in Gaza while Hamas . . . READ MORE . . .
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Netanyahu wants to ‘deradicalize’ Gaza through war. Is that possible? Reported by Tyler Bartlam, Justine Kenin and Ari Shapiro | NPR The Brookings Institution’s Natan Sachs talks about whether demilitarizing and deradicalizing Gaza is possible. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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Israel’s war on hospitals, by Chris Hedges | ScheerPost / Popular Resistance Israel is not attacking hospitals in Gaza because they are “Hamas command centers.” Israel is systematically and deliberately destroying Gaza’s medical infrastructure as part of a scorched earth campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable and escalate a humanitarian crisis — to force 2.3 million Palestinians over the border into Egypt where they will never return. READ MORE . . .
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Israel’s claims of ‘terrorist activity’ in a chldren’s hospital were lies, by Refaat Alareer | The Electronic Intifada / Popular Resistance On 10 November, we woke up and found Israeli tanks right under our window. My family had been taking shelter at the Rantisi children’s hospital for a few days. What happened before and after we woke up that . . . READ MORE . . .
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U.S. embarks on proxy war against Iran, by M.K. Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline / Peoples Dispatch / Popular Resistance The Biden administration must be sensing already that the Israeli operations against Hamas are not getting anywhere and may turn into a long day’s journey into night, thanks to . . . READ MORE . . .