For today, links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, and National Public Radio, and to commentary from ScheerPost and the Washington Post; other articles are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below, although the latter online source may require a subscription. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM
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Nicaragua urges the top UN court to halt German military aid to Israel because of Gaza assault, by Mike Corder | AP THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Nicaragua called on the International Court of Justice today to halt German military aid to Israel, arguing that Berlin’s support enables acts of genocide and breaches of international humanitarian law in Gaza. Germany is the second-largest supplier . . . READ MORE . . .
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Hamas says Gaza truce talks still deadlocked despite reports of progress, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Ahmed Mohamed Hassan | Reuters CAIRO — A Hamas official said today no progress was made at a new round of Gaza ceasefire talks in Cairo also attended by delegations from Israel, Qatar and the U.S., shortly after Egyptian sources said headway had been achieved . . . READ MORE . . .
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An Israeli teacher was held hostage in Gaza — her American husband is still there. Leila Fadel of NPR talks with Aviva Siegel who was taken hostage during the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel and held for 51 days. Her husband, Keith, is among the hostages still held in Gaza. Click HERE to listen and read.
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FROM APRIL 7 These Palestinian mothers in Gaza gave birth Oct. 7. Their babies have known only war, by Julia Frankel and Wafaa Shurafa | AP NUSEIRAT, Gaza Strip — Rockets streaked through the morning sky in Gaza on Oct. 7 as Amal Al-Taweel hurried to the hospital in the nearby Nuseirat refugee camp, already in labor. Rola Saqer’s water broke that day as she sheltered from Israeli airstrikes in Beit Lahia, a Gaza town near . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM APRIL 6 Morality challenged, by Michael Brenner | ScheerPost Is there now a moral void at the heart of Western societies? That question haunts as governments in the United States and Europe act as accomplices in Israeli’s atrocious crimes against the Palestinians. The Jewish state’s conduct . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM APRIL 2 The International Court of Justice is waging lawfare on Israel, by Ruth Marcus | The Washington Post The International Court of Justice is allowing itself to be used as a geopolitical weapon in the Israel-Gaza war. In January, the court found that South Africa had made a “plausible” claim that Israel was . . . READ MORE . . .