For now, links to reports from Reuters, National Public Radio, the Associated Press, Tass, Al Jazeera and, via Popular Resistance, Common Dreams; others are accessible by clicking on their names and initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date, so far, is HERE.) — MCM
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NEWER Israel sharply ramps up Gaza strikes, U.S. alarmed, by Bassam Masoud and Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters Israel has sharply increased strikes on Gaza, pounding the length of the Palestinian enclave and killing hundreds in a new, expanded phase of the war that the United States said veered from Israeli promises to do more to protect civilians. The Israeli military said that it had struck more than 450 targets in Gaza from land, sea and air over the past 24 hours — the most since. . . READ MORE . . .
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NEWER The Israeli military keeps pushing into central and southern Gaza. Reported by Michel Martin and Kat Lonsdorf | NPR As Israel seeks to destroy Hamas, the massive displacement of Palestinians in Gaza continues. They’re being pushed farther and farther south, into smaller and smaller spaces. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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NEWER Palestinians live in dire conditions in Gaza despite Israel’s safe zone. From AP. Israel has designated a safe zone in southern Gaza, but its widening air and ground offensive has left Palestinians packed together in dire humanitarian conditions. United Nations monitors said Thursday that . . . READ MORE . . .
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NEWER Netanyahu, his accomplices must be punished for genocide in Gaza — Erdogan. From Tass. ISTANBUL — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his administration should be prosecuted for genocide in Gaza, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said upon his return from an official visit in Greece. The Anadolu news agency quotes Erdogan as saying . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israel designates safe zone in Gaza. Palestinians and aid groups say it offers little relief, by Wafaa Shurafa, Jack Jeffrey and Isabel DeBre | AP MUWASI, Gaza Strip — Israel has designated a small slice of mostly undeveloped land along Gaza’s Mediterranean coast as a safe zone — a place where waves of people fleeing the war can find protection from airstrikes and receive humanitarian supplies for their families. The reality? The area . . . READ MORE . . .
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Hundreds more Palestinians killed in Israel’s assault on Hamas in south Gaza, by Bassam Masoud and Maayan Lubell | Reuters GAZA / JERUSALEM — Hundreds more Palestinians were killed as Israel fought Hamas militants in thE Gaza Strip’s biggest cities on Thursday, and almost 2 million displaced Gazans facing shortages of food struggled to find safe refuge. Residents reported . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israel demands UN investigate charges of sexual violence by Hamas fighters. Reported by Steve Inskeep and Michele Kelemen | NPR Israel wants the United Nations and international community to do more about its evidence of sexual violence by militants in the Hamas attack on Oct. 7. Click HERE to listen and read.
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Palestinians demand end to Israel’s Gaza onslaught, by Ted Regencia and Alastair McCready | Al Jazeera Rabbi Miriam Grossman says the demonstrators who gathered in New York City on Thursday night are “horrified by Israel’s brutal siege, denying children food and water, and by decades of occupation and dispossession done in our name”. Grossman said activists are mourning the . . . READ MORE . . .
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40+ White House interns decry Israel’s ‘genocidal’ assault on Gaza, by Jake Johnson | Common Dreams / Popular Resistance Dozens of White House interns sent a letter late Tuesday urging President Joe Biden to demand a permanent cease-fire in Gaza, echoing the calls of a growing number of lawmakers, congressional staffers, administration officials, and ordinary Americans. “We heed the voices of the American people and . . . READ MORE . . .
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