For today, links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, Common Dreams, National Public Radio, and Substack; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM
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After months of warnings that Israel’s siege is causing famine, children begin to die in Gaza, by Mohamed Jahjouh, Jack Jeffrey and Lee Keath | AP RAFAH, Gaza Strip — RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — It’s not just Israeli bombs that have killed children in war-ravaged Gaza — now some are dying of hunger too. Hunger is most acute in northern Gaza, which . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israeli offensive in Gaza’s Rafah ‘must not be allowed to happen’, UN says. From Reuters. GENEVA — The United Nations human rights office said today that an Israeli offensive in Gaza’s border town of Rafah could not be allowed to happen because it would cause massive loss of Palestinian lives. “Should Israel . . . READ MORE . . .
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Gaza aid corridor from Cyprus could start this weekend, says EU president, by Michele Kambas | Reuters LARNACA, Cyprus — A sea corridor to take desperately needed aid from Cyprus to besieged Palestinians in Gaza could start this weekend, the European Union said today. The quantities of aid envisaged and the distribution logistics in Gaza. . .. READ MORE . . .
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FROM MARCH 7 UN expert ‘horrified by the depravity’ of Israel’s war on Gaza, by Thor Benson | Common Dreams A United Nations expert on Wednesday expressed her disgust with what Israel is doing during its assault on Gaza. Paula Gaviria Betancur, U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, specifically focused on . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM MARCH 5 The real Gaza death toll, by Ralph Nader | Common Dreams / Consortium News Since the Hamas raid penetrated the multi-tiered Israeli border security on Oct. 7, 2023 (an unexplained collapse of Israel’s defensive capabilities), 2.3 million utterly defenseless Palestinians in the tiny crowded Gaza enclave have been on the receiving end of . . . READ MORE . . .
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Does the U.S. have the power and leverage to stop the Israel-Hamas war? A Martínez of NPR asks Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat professor for peace and development at the University of Maryland, if President Biden could end the Israel-Hamas war with a phone call. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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FROM MARCH 7 What Israelis believe now, five months after Oct. 7. Reported by Daniel Estrin | NPR We look at five ways Israelis have been changed through five months of war. The Oct. 7 Hamas attack was the single deadliest day for Israelis in history, prompting the deadly Israeli assault on Gaza. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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FROM MARCH 5 What does U.S. intelligence know about the hostages? by Seymour M. Hersh | seymourhersh.Substack.com The prospect is increasingly clear, horrifying as it may be, that there will be no relenting in Israel’s destruction of Gaza and its recasting of the West Bank as an Israeli-dominated suburb of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The best America can . . . READ MORE . . .