For today, links to eight reports: from the Associated Press, Reuters, Middle East Eye, Middle East Monitor, and the Cradle, to a study from the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and to commentary from Middle East Eye; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (IRAN, YEMEN and UKRAINE entries for this date is HERE, HERE and HERE.  GAZA 4-1-25 is HERE, or scroll up or down.) — MCM

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Over 30 killed as Israel’s military operation in Gaza Strip expanding to seize ‘large areas,’ by Isaac Sharf and Wafaa Shurafa | AP  JERUSALEM — Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip is expanding to seize “large areas,” the defense minister said, while officials at hospitals inside the Palestinian territory said Israeli strikes overnight and into today had killed more than 30 people, nearly a dozen of them children. READ MORE . . .  Click HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE for another AP report, and reports from Reuters, Middle East Eye and the Cradle.

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More journalists have been killed by Israel in Gaza than were killed in other wars combined. From Middle East Monitor. Israel has killed more journalists in Gaza than were killed in total in the American Civil War, World Wars One and Two, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including the conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, a new study, “News Graveyards,” has found. READ MORE . . .  Click HERE for study from the Watson Institute.

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Gaza civil defense confirms rescue workers ‘bound, executed, buried in mass grave.’ From the Cradle. The General Directorate of Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip today confirmed that Israeli forces executed Palestinian first responders and buried them in a mass grave in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood of Rafah, southern Gaza, on March 23. READ MORE . . .

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Red Crescent massacre: Palestinians are betrayed in a world ruled by outlaws, by Joe Gill | Middle East Eye  Last week, the bodies of 14 first responders were found in Rafah, southern Gaza, a week after they were killed. The vehicles were mangled, and the bodies dumped . . . Click HERE to read, and for a video report.

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