For today, links to reports from Reuters and National Public Radio, and to commentary from Middle East Eye and Middle East Monitor; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE and ASSANGE entries for this date are HERE and HERE.) — MCM

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Israeli airstrikes kill at least 24 in Gaza City, say Gaza officials, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters  CAIRO — Israeli forces killed at least 24 Palestinians in three separate airstrikes early today on Gaza City and the dead included a sister of Ismail Haniyeh, the chief of the militant Islamist group Hamas, Gaza health officials and medics said. Israeli tanks also pressed deeper into western areas of Rafah in the south of the enclave overnight, blowing up homes, residents said. READ MORE . . .

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FROM JUNE 24  A look back at the start of the Zionist movement and its founder. Reported by Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei | NPR  Throughline, NPR’s history podcast, goes back to the late 19th century to meet the people who organized the modern Zionist movement. Click HERE to listen and read.

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Hunger ‘worse than bombings’ for starving Palestinians, by Lubna Masarwa and Rayhan Uddin | Middle East Eye  JERUSALEM / LONDON  As part of a policy that amounts to collective punishment of civilians, the Israeli military has used starvation of the population as a weapon of war, according to independent UN investigators. The hunger crisis peaked in March, with dozens of children dying of malnutrition and residents being forced to eat grass as . . . READ MORE . . .

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Israel is forcibly disappearing future Palestinian generations, by Ramona Wadi | Middle East Monitor  It is estimated that around 21,000 Palestinian children are missing in Gaza, either buried under rubble or in mass graves, estranged from their families, detained or disappeared by Israel. The colonised are deprived of their voice, and the silence of colonised children is eerily loud, once the facts . . . READ MORE . . .