For today, links to five reports: from Reuters, Middle East Eye, Anadolu Agency, and the Associated Press, and to commentary from Middle East Monitor; other articles or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (GAZA 5-7-25 is HERE, or scroll down. LEBANON, YEMEN and UKRAINE entry for today are HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down.) — MCM
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Hamas says it is engaged in ‘fierce fighting’ in Gaza’s Rafah. From Reuters. Hamas militants were engaged in “fierce fighting” with Israeli soldiers on Thursday in the south of the Gaza Strip near Rafah, the Palestinian militant group said. READ MORE . . .
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What is ‘Gideon’s Chariots,’Israel’s latest plan for Gaza? by Nadav Rapaport | Middle East Eye TEL AVIV — The Israeli army is planning to seize complete control of the Gaza Strip, displace the entire population to a small area of land in the south and provide Palestinians with only enough food so they don’t starve to death, as part of an expanded military operation ominously called “Gideon’s Chariots.” READ MORE . . .
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Gaza government warns of Israeli plans to create ‘forced isolation camps’ for Palestinians, by Jomaa Younis and Rania Abu Shamala | Anadolu Agency ISTANBUL — The Gaza government on Wednesday ay warned of Israeli plans to create camps for Palestinians modeled after the “Nazi ghettos” using the mechanism of aid distribution promoted by Tel Aviv. READ MORE . . .
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Document reveals Israel’s controversial aid plan for Gaza, by Dania Akkad | Middle East Eye The organisation set to administer Israel’s controversial plan to take control of humanitarian aid distribution in Gaza will use private security contractors to hand out 1,750 kcal meals to Palestinians that will cost donors a little more than a dollar each. READ MORE . . .
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Leading aid group shuts down its soup kitchens across Gaza over Israel’s blockade, by Wafaa Shurafa | AP DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza — Israel’s ongoing blockade of humanitarian assistance for Gaza forced World Central Kitchen to shut its community soup kitchens, faced with empty warehouses and no replenishment of supplies in the war-battered enclave. READ MORE . . .
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Expulsion and occupation: Israel’s proposed Gaza plan, by Binoy Kampmark | Middle East Monitor Killing civilians wholesale, starving them to convince those unaffected to change course, and shepherding whole populations like livestock into conditions of further misery . . . READ MORE . . .
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