For today, links to four reports: from the Associated Press and Reuters; others are accessible by clicking on their names and initials below. (SYRIA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE and HERE.) — MCM

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Israeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 29, Palestinian medics say, by Samy Magdy and Wafaa Shurafa | AP  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli strikes pounded the Gaza Strip overnight and into today, hitting a home where displaced people were sheltering in the isolated north and a built-up refugee camp. At least 29 people were killed, according to Palestinian health officials. The Israel-Hamas war has raged on with no end in sight . . . Click HERE for AP report including map, and HERE for report from Reuters.

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Humanitarian aid to northern Gaza mostly blocked for the last 2 months, UN says. From AP. UNITED NATIONS — Humanitarian aid to north Gaza, where Israel launched a ground offensive on Oct. 6, has largely been blocked for the past 66 days, leaving between 65,000 and 75,000 Palestinians without access to food, water, electricity or health care the United Nations said Tuesday. READ MORE . . .

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These Palestinians disappeared after encounters with Israeli troops in Gaza, by Wafaa Shurafa, Sarah el Deeb and Julia Frankel | AP  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Reem Ajour says she last saw her husband, Talal, and then 4-year-old daughter, Masaa, in March, when Israeli soldiers raided a family home in northern Gaza and ordered her to go, leaving them — both wounded — behind. The Israeli legal group Hamoked says thousands like them . . . READ MORE . . .