For today, links to reports from Reuters and the Associated Press and to commentary from Scheer Post; other articles are accessible by clicking on their sources’ names or initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date, so far, is HERE.) — MCM

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‘Mass casualties’ at UN complex as Israeli forces advance through Khan Younis, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi, Fadi Shana and Dan Williams | Reuters  GAZA / JERUSALEM — A U.N. training centre sheltering tens of thousands of displaced people was hit today, causing “mass casualties” as buildings blazed, a senior U.N. relief official said as Israeli forces advanced through southern Gaza’s main city. They also cut off southern Gaza’s main hospitals in their . . . READ MORE . . .

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Heavy fighting in Gaza’s second-largest city leaves hundreds of patients stranded in main hospital, by Najib Jobain and Melanie Lidman | AP  RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli forces battled Palestinian militants today near the main hospital in Gaza’s second largest city where medics said hundreds of patients and thousands of displaced people were trapped by the fighting. Israel has ordered . . . READ MORE . . .

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The four horsemen of Gaza’s apocalypse, by Chris Hedges | Scheer Post / Consortium News / Popular Resistance  Joe Biden’s inner circle of strategists for the Middle East — Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan and Brett McGurk — have little understanding of the Muslim world and a deep animus towards Islamic resistance movements. They see Europe, the United States and Israel as involved in a clash of civilizations between the enlightened West and a barbaric Middle East. They believe that violence can bend Palestinians and other Arabs to their will. They champion . . . READ MORE . . .