For today, links to reports from the Associated Press and Reuters, and to commentary from Scheer Post and from facebook.com/selfiesforpalestine; other links are accessible by clicking on their names or initialsbelow. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM

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Displaced Palestinians leave one of Gaza’s main hospitals after weeks of being isolated by fighting, by Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Melanie Lidman | AP  RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Palestinians have begun evacuating the main hospital in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, according to videos shared by medics today. Weeks of heavy fighting had. . . READ MORE . . .

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No breakthrough in Gaza talks dents hopes of Palestinians in Rafah, by Nidal al-Mughrabi | Reuters  CAIRO — Palestinians jammed into their last refuge in Gaza voiced growing fear today that Israel will soon launch a planned assault on the southern city of Rafah after truce talks in Cairo ended inconclusively. The talks in the Egyptian capital . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM FEB. 12  The crisis at the New York Times, by Patrick Lawrence | Scheer Post / Consortium News  It has been evident to many of us since the genocide in Gaza began Oct. 7 that Israel risked asking too much of those inclined to take its side. The Zionist state would ask what many people cannot give: It would ask them to surrender their consciences, their idea of moral order, altogether their native decency as . . . READ MORE . . .

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Selfies for Palestine. From Facebook. This is an example of the images. Click HERE for others.