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For today, links to eight reports from Reuters, Middle East Eye, the Associated Press, Middle East Monitor, and National Public Radio, and to commentary from Substack; 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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NEWER Senior U.S. Republican demands Biden administration shut Gaza aid pier, by Phil Stewart | Reuters WASHINGTON — The Republican lawmaker who leads the House Armed Services Committee has written to the Biden administration formally demanding it shut down its aid pier off the coast Gaza, calling the operation ineffective, risky and a waste of money. The offshore floating pier . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israel storms Gaza City neighbourhood, orders Palestinians to go south, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters Israel stormed a neighborhood in Gaza City today, telling Palestinians as the tanks moved in that they must move south, and bombed the southern city of Rafah in what it says are the final stages of an operation against Hamas militants there. READ MORE . . .
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Battered Shujaiya comes under fresh Israeli assault, by Lubna Masarwa | Middle East Eye JERUSALEM — Israeli air strikes and artillery heavily bombed Gaza’s Shujaiya neighbourhood today amid a fresh ground assault on the war-ravaged residential area. At least seven Palestinianswere killed and 40 wounded, including children, women and the elderly, according to initial estimates. READ MORE . . .
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Gazans struggle to feed their children under Israeli campaign, by Mohammad Salem | Reuters KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Famine approaches slowly for Gazans, who spend hours in queues for a few ladles of cooked food and the chance to fill plastic containers with drinkable water. Sometimes there is nothing to queue for in . . . READ MORE . . .
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In the searing heat of the Gaza summer, Palestinians are surrounded by sewage and garbage, by Wafaa Shurafa and Julia Frankel | AP DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza — Children in sandals trudge through water contaminated with sewage and scale growing mounds of garbage in Gaza’s crowded tent camps for displaced families. People relieve themselves in burlap-covered pits, with nowhere nearby to wash their hands. READ MORE . . .
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Israel preparing to increase water supply for Palestinians in Gaza, sources say. From Middle East Monitor. Israel, under pressure from Western allies to ease a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, is preparing to boost electricity to a desalination plant so it can produce more water for people in the enclave, an Israeli security official and a western official told Reuters on Wednesday. READ MORE . . .
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FROM JUNE 26 Looting in Gaza has led to skyrocketing food prices. Reported by Kat Lonsdorf and Anas Baba | NPR A breakdown in law and order along a main route in southern Gaza has made Israel’s daytime fighting pause ineffectual for aid delivery. This led to skyrocketing food prices sold on the black market. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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Germany imposes Israel ‘loyalty’ test with new citizenship law. From Middle East Monitor. Germany has introduced a new citizenship law that requires applicants to declare their belief in Israel’s right to exist. The unprecedented move demands recognition of a foreign country’s right to exist as part of a citizenship process, and . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM JUNE 26 The suspect body count, by Seymour M. Hersh | Substack The number of slain Palestinians in Gaza, including those believed to be Hamas cadres, has gone through a series of public recalibrations in recent weeks, as Israel’s reshuffled war cabinet has struggled to minimize international rage at the slaughter there. The reduced body count . . . READ MORE . . .