For today, links to eleven reports: from Middle East Eye, the Associated Press, Middle East Monitor, Agence France-Presse, the Cradle, Reuters, and National Public Radio; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (MEDIA, YEMEN, SYRIA, WEST BANK and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down. GAZA 3-25-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM
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Gaza death toll since dawn rises to at least 12. From Middle East Eye. Israeli forces have killed at least one Palestinian in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, Al Jazeera reported. This raises the death toll since this morning to at least 12, including five children. READ MORE . . .
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Israeli military orders evacuation of parts of Gaza City. From AP. The Israeli military today ordered the evacuation of parts of Gaza City as it steps up its renewed offensive against Hamas after Israel broke the ceasefire last week. Israel’s bombardments and ground operations have caused vast destruction and at their height . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM MARCH 25 Israeli captives in Gaza warn Israel’s bombs are endangering their lives. From Middle East Monitor. Two Israeli captives held in Gaza have warned in a video released on Monday by Al-Brigades that their lives are in danger as a result of Israel’s decision to return to bombing the enclave. They are Elkana Bohbot and Yosef-Haim Ohana. READ MORE . . .
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96% of Gaza’s water is undrinkable, rights group warns. From Middle East Monitor. Some 96 per cent of the water in the Gaza Strip is undrinkable due to the complete collapse of infrastructure, the International Committee to Support the Rights of the Palestinian People warned Tuesday in a policy paper. READ MORE . . .
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Israel’s Netanyahu warns of increasing ‘pressure’ on Hamas if hostages not freed. From AFP. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today warned Hamas that Israel would seize territory in Gaza if the militants refused to release hostages still held in the Palestinian territory. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from the Cradle.
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Hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza protest against Hamas after conflict resumes. From Reuters. CAIRO / JERUSALEM — Hundreds of Palestinians have protested in northern Gaza to demand an end to war and chanting “Hamas out,” social media posts showed, in a rare public show of opposition . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE and HERE for reports from AP and NPR.
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FROM MARCH 25 Tributes pour in for Palestinian journalists Hossam Shabat and Mohammad Mansour, by Rayhan Uddin| Middle East Eye The two were killed by Israel in separate attacks on Monday — Mansour, a correspondent for Palestine Today, in an Israeli air strike in his home north of Khan Younis in which his wife and sonwere also killed, and Shabbat, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher, in his vehicle on Salah al-Din Street in north Gaza. READ MORE . . .
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FROM MARCH 25 Steve Witkoff and Tucker Carlson: Key Middle East points from U.S. envoy interview, by Oscar Rickett | Middle East Eye In a frank and wide-ranging interview with Tucker Carlson on Saturday, U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff said that negotiations to end Israeli attacks on Gaza were ongoing and that if Hamas “demilitarised” then “maybe they could stay” in the Palestinian enclave and “be involved politically”. READ MORE . . .
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