For today, links to reports from National Public Radio, the Associated Press, and Reuters, and to an interview from El Pass; others are accessible by clicking on their initials or names below. (UKRAINE entry for this date and a HERSH entry are HERE and HERE.) — MCM
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The death toll in Gaza hits a grim new milestone, Reported by A Martínez and Aya Batrawy | NPR The health ministry says soon the death toll will reach 30,000 people — many of them women and children. But officials say the actual number is much higher. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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Strike on Palestinians waiting for aid kills 70, Gaza officials say, taking war’s toll past 30,000, by Wafaa Shurafa and Kareem Chehaeb | AP RAFAH, Gaza Strip — A strike early today on a crowd of Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid in Gaza City killed at least 70 people, bringing the death toll since the start of the Israel-Hamas war to more than 30,000, health officials said. Gaza City and the surrounding . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israel appropriates 650 acres of West Bank land near big settlement. From Reuters. JERUSALEM — Israel appropriated several tracts of land abutting a major Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank today, but a source briefed on the decision told Reuters there was currently no plan for construction there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s religious-nationalist government . . . READ MORE . . .
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NEWER Palestinian Authority receives $114 mln from Israel, Norway says. From Reuters. OSLO — The Palestinian Authority has received 407 million shekel ($114 million) from Israel, with more funds on the way in the coming days, following an agreement earlier this month to release frozen tax funds, the Norwegian government said today. Norway on Feb. 18 said it had agreed to assist . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM FEB. 27 The prime minister of the Palestinian Authority has resigned. What comes next? Reported by Fatma Tanis | NPR The Palestinian prime minister in the occupied West Bank has announced that he is resigning, as pressure mounts for the moribund leadership to reform and possibly take charge of Gaza after the war. Click HERE to listen and read.
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FROM FEB. 28 Why the Palestinian prime minister and his government resigned. Steve Inskeep of NPR talks with Mustafa Barghouti of the Palestinian National Initiative about the resignation of the Palestinian Authority’s prime minister and his government. Click HERE to listen and read.
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Borrell: ‘Trump has not won yet, just as Putin has not won yet, but Europe has to wake up.’ Claudi Pérez of El País talks with Josep Borrell, foreign minister of the European Union. From Pérez’s introduction: “One war in Europe has just entered its third year: Ukraine. Another in the Middle East — Gaza — is . . .” READ MORE . . . Click HERE to read in Spanish.