For today, links to six reports: from Reuters, Middle East Eye, the Cradle, the Associated Press, and Substack, and to commentary from ZNetwork via Consortium News; other articles are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (SYRIA and UKRAINE entries for this date, so far, are HERE and HERE. The two most recent 9/11 TRUTH entries, for Dec. 24 and Dec. 26,  are HERE and HERE.) — MCM

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Israeli forces raid Gaza hospital, health ministry says contact with staff lost. From Reuters. CAIRO / JERUSALEM — Israeli forces raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza today, ordering dozens of patients and hundreds of others to evacuate the compound, officials said. Across Gaza, Israeli strikes killed at least 25 people, medics said. READ MORE . . .  Click HERE, HERE and HERE for reports from Middle East Eye, the Cradle and Mondoweiss. 

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FROM DEC. 26  The U.S. says it pushed retraction of a famine warning for north Gaza. Aid groups express concern, by Ellen Knickmeyer | AP  WASHINGTON — A lead organization monitoring for food crises around the world withdrew a new report this week warning of imminent famine in north Gaza under what it called Israel’s “near-total blockade,” after the U.S. asked for its retraction, U.S. officials told The Associated Press. READ MORE . . .

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FROM DEC. 20  The new ceasefire equation, by Seymour M. Hersh | Substack  If you happen to be a careful reader of daily newspapers, you may have read that tentative preliminary ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas have begun again in Doha, the capital of Qatar. A reliable Israeli has told me that these talks contain a new element . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM DEC. 24  Deception & politics from Washington to Tel Aviv, by M. Reza Behnam | ZNetwork / Consortium News  For more than fourteen painful months Israel has passed off its inhuman actions against the people of Gaza as “defensive.” We are to believe . . . READ MORE . . .