For today, links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, and National Public Radio, followed by commentary from Consortium News and, via CN, from Medium; other articles are accessible by clicking on their sources’ names or initials below. (UKRAINE entry for today, so far, is HERE.) — MCM
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Hezbollah fires rockets at Israel in ‘initial response’ to killing of top leader from allied Hamas, by Bassem Mroue, Samy Magdy and Najib Jobain | AP BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia fired dozens of rockets at northern Israel today, warning that the barrage was its initial\l response to the targeted killing, presumably by Israel, of a top leader from the allied Hamas group in Lebanon’s capital earlier this week. The attack came a day after . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israel, Hezbollah exchange fire across Lebanon border amid alarm over Gaza war spillover, by Ari Rabinovitch, Maya Gebeily and Simon Lewis | Reuters JERUSALEM / BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah group said today it had fired rockets at Israel and its arch-foe said it had struck a “terrorist cell” in retaliation, as top U.S. and EU diplomats visited the region to seek ways to halt spillover from the war. Shortly after rocket sirens sounded across northern Israel, the . . . READ MORE . . .
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Women in Gaza are desperately in need of washrooms, privacy and pads. Reported by AYA BATRAWY | NPR Hundreds of thousands of displaced women in Gaza are not only struggling to survive Israeli bombardment, but also have to contend with private struggles trying to find washrooms and pads. Click HERE to listen and read.
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How Israel leverages genocide with Hamas ‘massacres,’ by Gareth Porter | Consortium News In the days after Hamas entered Israeli kibbutzim near Gaza on Oct. 7, foreign press accounts of what happened have broadly reflected the Israeli interpretation of events of the deliberate slaughter and dismemberment of innocent civilians by Hamas fighters. A reconstruction of . . . READ MORE . . .
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South Africa emerges as moral giant on Gaza, by John Wight | Medium | Consortium News The collective West will forever stand disgraced and exposed due to its blind support of Israel’s genocidal slaughte of Palestinian civilians in Gaza since Oct. 7. What passes for governance in Washington, Berlin, Paris, London et al. has forced us all to bear witness to infanticide, high crimes and war crimes without end these past few months. Said . . . READ MORE . . .