For today, links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, the Cradle, National Public Radio, and Middle East Eye; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (GAZA 5-18-25 is HERE, or scroll down.  UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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Netanyahu says he’ll allow some aid into Gaza under pressure, but none appears to have entered, by Tia Godenberg, Samy Magdy and Wafaa Shurafa | AP   TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today his decision to resume limited aid to the Gaza Strip after a two-and-a-half month blockade came after pressure from allies. None had entered by this afternoon. Meanwhile . . . READ MORE . . .

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Netanyahu says Israel will control Gaza as aid trucks prepare to enter. From Reuters.  JERUSALEM / CAIRO — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today Israel would control the whole of Gaza despite mounting international pressure that forced it to lift a blockade on aid supplies, and the Israeli military warned residents of the southern city of Khan Younis to evacuate to the coast immediately as it prepared “an unprecedented attack.” READ MORE . . .  Click HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE for reports from AP, the Cradle, NPR and Middle East Eye.

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Palestinian group says commander killed in Israeli raid in Khan Younis. From Middle East Eye. Ahmed Sarhan, a leader of the Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, was killed in an Israeli special forces raid in Gaza today, the group said, according to Al Jazeera. READ MORE . . .

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Palestinian writer Yousri Alghoul describes life in north Gaza. Steve Inskeep of NPR speaks with Palestinian writer Yousri Alghoul about life in north Gaza where he lives with his wife and four children, as Israeli airstrikes continue and food remains scarce. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.

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