For today, links to five reports from Reuters, Wafa, Middle East Monitor, and Reuters, and to commentary from Middle East Eye and Middle East Monitor; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM
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NEWER Israeli airstrike kills eight at Gaza aid centre, witnesses say, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters CAIRO — Eight Palestinians were killed today in an Israeli airstrike on a training college near Gaza City being used to distribute aid, Palestinian witnesses said, as Israeli tanks pushed further into the southern city of Rafah. The strike hit part of a vocational college run by the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA now . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE and HERE for earlier reports from Wafa and Middle East Monitor.
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EARLIER Israeli tanks at edge of Rafah’s Mawasi refuge zone, residents say, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters CAIRO — Israeli tanks advanced to the edge of the Mawasi displaced persons’ camp in the northwest of the southern Gaza city of Rafah today in fierce fighting with Hamas-led fighters, residents said. “The fighting with the resistance has been intense,” a resident said . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israeli forces strap wounded Palestinian to jeep during raid. From Reuters. JERUSALEM — Israeli army forces strapped a wounded Palestinian man to the hood of a military jeep during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday. A video verified by Reuters showed a Palestinian resident of Jenin, Mujahed Azmi, on the jeep that . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israel’s alliance with Europe’s fascists is the greatest threat to Jewish people, by David Hearst | Middle East Eye The next generation of political leaders in what we continue, fondly, to call western democracy is clear for all to see. It has energy, charisma and speaks a language everyone can understand. It connects with an electorate neglected by today’s elite, has strategic . . . READ MORE . . .
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Quibbling about killing: Netanyahu’s spat with Washington, by Binoy Kampmark | Middle East Monitor Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unhappy. Not so much with the Palestinians, whom he sees as terroristic, dispensable and a threat to Israeli security. Nor with the Iranians, who he swears will never acquire a nuclear weapon capacity on his watch. His recent discontent has been directed against . . . READ MORE . . .