For now, links to reports from the Associated Press, Middle East Monitor, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, and, via Popular Resistance, the Cradle and CNN, and to commentary from the Capitol Hill Citizen; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date, so far, is HERE.) — MCM
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UN appeals for $2.8 billion to help 3 million Palestinians in desperate need of food and other aid, by Edith M. Lederer | AP UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations appealed for $2.8 billion on Tuesday to provide desperately needed aid to 3 million Palestinians, stressing that tackling looming famine in war-torn Gaza requires not only food but sanitation, water and health facilities. Andrea De Domenico, the head of . . . READ MORE . . .
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UN: More than 10,000 women killed in Gaza. From Middle East Monitor. The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women on Tuesday announced the deaths of more than 10,000 women in the Gaza Strip, which has been suffering a devastating Israeli war for more than six months. “Women who have survived,” the authority said . . . READ MORE . . .
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Gaza’s IVF embryos destroyed by Israeli strike, by Saleh Salem, Andrew Mills and Imad Creidi | Reuters When an Israeli shell struck Gaza’s largest fertility clinic in December, the explosion blasted the lids off five liquid nitrogen tanks stored in a corner of the embryology unit. The impact of that single . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israel-Hamas talks on Gaza truce ‘stalling’: mediator Qatar. From AFP. Negotiations between Israel and Hamas to secure a truce in Gaza and a release of hostages have stalled, Qatar’s prime minister said today. READ MORE . . .
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33,899 Palestinians killed in Israel’s Gaza offensive since Oct. 7, health ministry says. From Reuters. DUBAI — Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 33,899 Palestinians and wounded 76,664 since Oct. 7, the Palestinian enclave’s health ministry said today. In the past 24 hours . . . READ MORE . . .
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Iran attack puts Israeli Rafah invasion on ice. From the Cradle / Popular Resistance Israel was on the verge of launching a ground offensive on the Gazan city of Rafah but delayed the campaign after Iran launched a massive retaliatory attack on Israel over the weekend, CNN reported on Monday. Citing Israeli sources, CNN reported . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israel delays Rafah offensive plans amid heated debate over response to Iranian attack, sources say, by Jeremy Diamond | CNN TEL AVIV — Israel was set to take its first steps towards a ground offensive on the Gaza city of Rafah but delayed that campaign after Iran’s weekend attack on their country, which has sparked a heated debate in the war cabinet over . . . READ MORE . . .
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Senate slaughter shame and Sanders, by Russell Mokhiber | Capitol Hill Citizen By a two-thirds margin, Americans are more inclined to support a member of Congress who supports a cease-fire in Gaza and they are less inclined to support a member of Congress who opposes a cease-fire. That’s the key finding . . . READ MORE . . .
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Collectively Congress is a weapon of mass destruction, by Ralph Nader | Capitol Hill Citizen As an operating legislative institution, given enormous constitutional authority, Congress has the originating power for good or bad, on a scale unmatched by any counterpart in other countries. The paradox is that . . . READ MORE . . .
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