For today, links to reports from Reuters, Middle East Eye, and Substack, and to commentary from Middle East Monitor; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (SYRIA, MEDIA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down.  GAZA 3-26-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.)— MCM

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Hamas spokesperson Qanoua killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza: Hamas media. by Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Hatem Maher | Reuters. CAIRO — Hamas spokesperson Abdel-Al-Qanoua has been killed in an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza, Hamas-affiliated media said early today — the latest figure in the group to be killed since Israel resumed its operations in the enclave. Separate  attacks killed at least seven elsewhere in the enclave. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from Middle East Eye.

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FROM MARCH 26  Israel prepares another invasion, by Seymour M. Hersh | Substack  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right supporters have made it clear that the nearly two million Gazans caught in the war were never a subject of concern to the Israeli leadership as it began its round-the-clock bombing in response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. They were just collateral damage. READ MORE . . .

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Israel should note what happened to France when it tried to subjugate Algeria by massacring its indigenous population, by Nabila Ramdani | Middle East Monitor  Childish drawings were used to “explain” the need for indigenous Arab and Berber Muslims to bow down or die during the French occupation of Algeria. Villages facing destruction were plastered with posters . . . READ MORE . . .

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