For today, links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, Haaretz  and, via ScheerPost, The Grayzone; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM

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Palestinians describe heavy destruction, forced marches in ongoing Israeli raid around Gaza hospital, by Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | AP  RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Palestinians who fled during an ongoing Israeli raid in and around the Gaza Strip’s main hospital described days of heavy fighting, mass arrests, forced marches past dead bodies and flattened buildings in interviews today. The Israeli . . . READ MORE . . .

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Israel besieges two more Gaza hospitals, demands evacuations, Palestinians say, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters  CAIRO — Israeli forces besieged two more Gaza hospitals today, pinning down medical teams under heavy gunfire, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, and Israel said it had captured 480 militants in continued clashes at Gaza’s main Al Shifa hospital. Israeli forces say . . . READ MORE . . .

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Kamala Harris ‘ruling out nothing’ if Israel invades Rafah: ‘There’s nowhere for those folks to go,‘ by Ben Samuels | Haaretz  WASHINGTON — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris referred to Senator Chuck Schumer’s Israel speech in an interview with ABC News, saying that: “I will not speak for Senator Schumer. But we are very clear that that is on the Israeli people to make a decision . . . READ MORE . . .

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‘Kill them all’: Inside the Israeli blockade on Gaza aid. Reported by Jeremy Loffredo | The Grayzone / ScheerPost  From introduction: “Setting out on a bus caravan through illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. Loffredo arrives at the Kerem Shalom crossing to Gaza, filming . . .” Click HERE to watch and listen.