For today, links to reports from National Public Radio, Reuters, the Associated Press and, via Consortium News, Peoples Dispatch; others are accessible by clicking on their initials below. (The UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM
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Netanyahu says Gaza needs a new ‘civilian government,’ but won’t say who. Reported by Rachel Treisman and Steve Inskeep | NPR Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an Interview with NPR that Israel is committed to doing three things in Gaza: destroying Hamas, freeing the Israeli hostages it’s holding and giving Gaza a different future. But the prime minister did not say: who he thinks should govern the territory. Click HERE to listen and read,
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An Egyptian-led ‘conscience convoy’ to Rafah, by Mahmoud Hashem| Peoples Dispatch / Consortium News The Egyptian Journalists Syndicate has called on “the free people of the world” to join its “Global Conscience Convoy” aiming to apply pressure to open the Rafah Crossing — the Gaza Strip’s lifeline — to allow all forms of humanitarian aid — such as food, water, medication and fuel — to enter sustainably, and for an unconditional exit for the critically wounded. The convoy . . . READ MORE . . .
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UN says starvation imminent in Gaza, no let-up in Israeli assault, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Ari Rabinovitch | Reuters GAZA / JERUSALEM — U.N. aid deliveries to Gaza were suspended again today due to shortages of fuel and a communications shutdown, deepening the misery of thousands of hungry and homeless Palestinians as Israeli troops battled Hamas militants in the enclave. There was no sign of any let-up despite international calls for a ceasefire or at least for humanitarian . . . READ MORE . . .
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Thousands of bodies lie buried in rubble in Gaza. Families dig to retrieve them, often by hand, by Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | AP DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The wreckage goes on for block after devastated block. The smell is sickening. Every day, hundreds of people claw through tons of rubble with shovels and iron bars and their bare hands. They are looking for the bodies of their children. Their parents. Their neighbors. All of them killed in Israeli missile strikes. The corpses are there, somewhere in the . . . READ MORE . . .