For today, links to four reports from Reuters, National Public Radio, Middle East Monitor, and the Anadolu Agency, and to commentary from Middle East Eye; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM
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Israeli forces deepen Rafah invasion, kill 17 in central camps, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters CAIRO — Israeli airstrikes today killed at least 17 Palestinians in two of the Gaza Strip’s historic refugee camps and Israeli tanks pushed deeper into the enclave’s southern city of Rafah, residents and medics said. Residents reported heavy bombardments from tanks and planes in . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM JUNE 17 Israel to pause fighting from morning to evening along an aid corridor into Gaza. Reported by Daniel Estrin | NPR Israel has announced a daily pause in combat along an aid corridor in Gaza, to increase the amount of aid getting to civilians at a critical point in the Israel-Hamas war. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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MBS: Gaza war must stop immediately. From Middle East Monitor. Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz, stressed the urgent need to halt the war on Gaza immediately and called on the international community to recognise the State of Palestine within the pre-1967 borders, with Jerusalem as its capital. The Saudi Press Agency reported . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM JUNE 17 Israeli intelligence ignored warning of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack: report, by Abdelraouf Arnaout | Anadolu Agency JERUSALEM — Israeli security authorities ignored an intelligence document last September that predicted the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, an Israeli state-run media outlet reported on Monday. Revealed by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority, the report . . . READ MORE . . .
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Why academic scholarship on Israel and Palestine threatens western elites, by Joseph Massad | Middle East Eye Since the 1980s, there has been a growing gap in the principal western countries between academic knowledge and the mainstream media when it comes to the Middle East, especially on the topic of Palestine and Israel. The gap . . . READ MORE . . .