For today, links to reports from Reuters, the Associated Press, National Public Radio, and Agence France-Presse, and to commentary by an Australian observer via Consortium News; other articles are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date, so far, and a MADSEN entry are HERE and HERE.)— MCM
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Israeli jets pound central Gaza as Netanyahu indicates longer war, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi, Arafat Barbakh and Dan Williams | Reuters Israeli jets intensified attacks on central Gaza today, residents and medics said, as battles raged through the rubble of towns and refugee camps in a war that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said would take “many more months” to end. Air strikes pounded al-Maghazi and al-Bureij in the centre of the Palestinian enclave, killing eight people in one house and . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 35 people as Netanyahu says war will continue for months, by Wafaa Shurafa, Bassem Mroue and Tia Goldenberg | AP DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli strikes in central Gaza killed at least 35 people today, hospital officials said, as fighting raged across the tiny enclave. The military said Israeli forces were operating in Gaza’s second-largest city, Khan Younis, and residents reported strikes in the central region, the latest focus . . . READ MORE . . .
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NEWER Israeli army unit attacked a UN aid convoy along a route it designated safe. Rob Schmitz of NPR talks with Tom White, director of Gaza affairs for the UN Relief and Works Agency. He says his agency’s aid workers have been hit several times while operating in Gaza. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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NEWER Netanyahu defends Israel’s unparalleled ‘morality’ in Gaza war. From AFP. TEL AVIV — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on today said Israel displayed unparalleled “morality” in the Gaza war and rejected South Africa’s charge that it was committing “genocidal” acts in the Palestinian territory. “We will continue our defensive war, the justice and morality of which is without peer,” he told a . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israel: SA is anti-Semitic to invoke genocide convention, by Caitlin Johnstone | caitlinjohnstone.com.au / Consortium News South Africa has invoked the Genocide Convention, formally launching a case at the U.N.’s International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide for its mass atrocities in the Gaza Strip. Israel immediately responded by accusing South Africa of “blood libel”. Blood libel, for those who don’t know, refers to . . . READ MORE . . .