For today, links to reports from Reuters and Substack; others are accessible by clicking on its name below. (UKRAINE and SYRIA entries for this date are HERE and HERE and a SYRIA, 12-9-24, entry, so far, is HERE.) — MCM

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Israel shells north Gaza hospital, disrupting service, doctors say. From Reuters. CAIRO — Hussam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the town of Beit Lahiya, one of only three barely operational on the northern edge of the enclave, said today the facility was hit by around 100 tank shells and bombs, wounding several of the medical staff and patients and damaging electricity and oxygen pumps. READ MORE . . .

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FROM DEC. 5  Bibi unbowed, by Seymour M. Hersh | Substack  Fourteen months after Israel’s greatest trauma, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still the darling of the extreme religious right in Israel and is riding high in the polls, with the blood of tens of thousands in Gaza and Lebanon and a few in Iran on his soul. READ MORE . . .