For today, links to reports from the Associated Press and Reuters, and to commentary from CN and the London Review of Books; other articles from both are accessible by clicking on their names below. (UKRAINE entry for this date and an ASSANGE entry are HERE and HERE,) —MCM
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A Palestinian boy is shot dead after he lit a firework. Israel’s use of deadly force is scrutinized, by Jack Jeffrey | AP JERUSALEM — A 12-year-old boy in east Jerusalem lights the fuse of a long firework and hoists it in the air. Then, just before it explodes and illuminates the night sky with a burst of red, he is shot in the chest by Israeli police and falls to the ground. READ MORE . . .
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Fighting rages at Gaza’s Shifa hospital as Blinken meets Sisi in Cairo, by Humeyra Pamuk and Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters CAIRO — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Cairo today for talks with Arab officials to push for a ceasefire in Gaza, after Israel’s prime minister told U.S. Republicans there would be no let-up in the war against Hamas. In Gaza itself, Israel’s . . . READ MORE . . .
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EU leaders gather with Ukraine ammunition production and Gaza aid at the top of their agenda. From AP. BRUSSELS — European Union leaders gathered today to consider new ways to help boost arms and ammunition production for Ukraine and to discuss the war in Gaza amid deep concern about Israeli plans to launch a ground offensive in the city of Rafah. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will join the leaders, in part to encourage . . . READ MORE . . .
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Authorized atrocities, by Patrick Lawrence | Special to Consortium News Israel’s savagery in its determination to exterminate the Palestinians of Gaza — and we had better brace for what is next on the West Bank of the Jordan — marks a turn for all of humanity. In its descent into depravity . . . READ MORE . . .
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The Shoah after Gaza, by Pankaj Mishra | The London Review of Books For more than seven decades now, the argument among the “darker peoples” has remained the same: why should Palestinians be dispossessed and punished for crimes in which only Europeans were complicit? And they can only recoil with disgust . . . READ MORE . . .