For today, links to six reports: from Middle East Monitor, the Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (SYRIA, YEMEN, WEST BANK, LEBANON and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down. GAZA 3-22-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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Palestinians flee Gaza’s southern city of Rafah under Israeli fire. From Middle East Monitor.  Thousands of Palestinians began to flee their areas in Tel al-Sultan neighborhood in western Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip today after an Israeli evacuation order, Anadolu Agency reports. READ MORE . . .

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Israel strikes southern Gaza and orders new evacuation as Palestinian death toll climbs past 50,000, by Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | AP  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli strikes across the southern Gaza Strip killed at least 26 Palestinians overnight into today, including a Hamas political leader and several women and children. Residents said tanks .  . READ MORE . . .

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Israeli airstrikes kill Hamas leader in southern Gaza, Hamas says. From Reuters. CAIRO — An Israeli air strike in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis killed Hamas political leader Salah al-Bardaweel today, Hamas officials said, as residents described the escalation in the Israeli military campaign that began on March 18. READ MORE . . .

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‘This is on Hamas,’ U.S. special envoy Witkoff says of new Gaza fighting, by Phil Stewart | Reuters  WASHINGTON — The Hamas militant group is responsible for the renewed fighting in Gaza after rejecting efforts to move forward with what had been an “acceptable deal,” U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said today, even as he said he would be open to new outreach. READ MORE . . .

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FROM MARCH 22  Fatah urges Hamas to relinquish power to safeguard Gaza Palestinians’ ‘existence.’ From AFP. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement called on its rivals Hamas on Saturday to ‘step aside from governing’ in the Gaza Strip in order to safeguard the “existence” of Palestinians there. READ MORE . . .

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FROM MARCH 22  As Israeli bombs fell, wounded children overwhelmed this Gaza hospital. Dozens died, by Samy Magdy and Lee Keath | AP  When the first explosions in Gaza this week started around 1:30 a.m., a visiting British doctor went to the balcony of a hospital in Khan Younis and watched the streaks of missiles light up the night before pounding the city. Torn bodies soon streamed in . . . READ MORE . . .

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