For today, links to reports from Reuters and the Associated Press, and to commentary by an Australian observer; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE. ASSANGE and HEINBERG entries are HERE and HERE.) — MCM
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NEWER Israeli strikes on Rafah raise fear assault could begin, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Ahmed Zakot | Reuters Israel bombed at least three homes in Rafah overnight, raising new fear among the more than a million people sheltering in the last refuge on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip that a long-threatened ground assault could be coming. One of the airstrikes killed 11 people from a family, health officials said. READ MORE . . .
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NEWER U.N. expert in Israel genocide accusation says she has been threatened, by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber | Reuters GENEVA — A United Nations expert who published a report saying there were reasonable grounds to believe Israel has committed genocide in Gaza during its military campaign against Hamas said today she had received threats throughout her mandate. READ MORE . . .
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7 Lebanese and an Israeli killed in an exchange of fire along the Lebanon-Israel border, by Mohammad Zaatari and Melanie Lidman | AP HEBBARIYE, Lebanon — An Israeli airstrike on a paramedics center linked to a Lebanese Sunni Muslim group in south Lebanon killed seven of its members early today and triggered a rocket attack from Lebanon that killed one person in northern Israel, officials said. The strike on . . . READ MORE . . .
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Jordanian anti-riot police use batons to push back protesters near Israeli embassy, by Suleiman Al-Khalidi | Reuters AMMAN — Jordanian anti-riot police beat and arrested dozens of demonstrators trying to march towards the heavily guarded Israeli embassy in the capital Amman, witnesses and residents said today. More than two thousand protesters . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM MARCH 26 Colombia threatens to break ties with Israel if it doesn’t comply with a UN cease-fire resolution, by Manuel Rueda | AP BOGOTA — Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday threatened to break off diplomatic ties with Israel if the country doesn’t comply with a U.N. Security Council resolution that calls for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. Israel’s Foreign Ministry replied . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM MARCH 26 Things that have been discredited during the destruction of Gaza, by Caitlin Johnstone | caitlinjohnstone.com.au The U.S. vetoed multiple UN ceasefire resolutions, then put forward . . . READ MORE . . .