For today, links to reports from Reuters, the Associated Press, and Middle East Monitor, and to commentary from ZNetwork and Common Dreams; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM
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Israel launches strikes across Gaza as U.S. envoy meets Netanyahu, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams | Reuters CAIRO / JERUSALEM — Israeli planes and tanks pounded areas across the Gaza Strip, residents said, as White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today amid U.S. calls for a more focused military campaign . . . READ MORE . . .
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An airstrike kills 20 in central Gaza and fighting rages as Israel’s leaders air wartime divisions, by Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Joseph Krauss | AP DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli airstrike killed 20 people in central Gaza, mostly women and children, and fighting raged across the north today as Israel’s leaders aired divisions over who should govern Gaza after the war, now in its eighth month. U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan . . . READ MORE . . .
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UNRWA: Failure to reopen land crossings to worsen humanitarian conditions in Gaza. From Middle East Monitor. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned on Saturday that the failure to reopen land crossings and provide them secure access would exacerbate the catastrophic humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency reports. “The crossings . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM MAY 16 The arsenal of genocide, by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies | ZNetwork / Consortium News On May 8, as Israel escalated its brutal assault on Rafah, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that he had “paused” a delivery of 1,700 500-pound and 1,800 2,000-pound bombs, and threatened to . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM MAY 15 Israel’s doomed-to-fail strategy, by Jeffrey D. Sachs | Common Dreams / Consortium News We owe an ironic debt of gratitude to Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan for advancing the cause of the State of Palestine at the United Nations. By delivering a speech to the U.N. General Assembly that was so . . . READ MORE . . .