For now, links to an interview from the Chris Hedges Report via Consortium News; to seven reports: from Reuters, the Associated Press, the Cradle, Middle East Eye, and, via ScheerPost, Common Dreams; and to commentary from Consortium News; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (GAZA 6-28-25 is HERE, or scroll down.  MEDIA, SYRIA, WEST BANK and IRAN entries for this date, so far, are HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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FROM JUNE 27  Francesca Albanese on an economy of genocide. Chris Hedges of the Chris Hedges Report talks with the United Nations special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, whose forthcoming report will detail Israel’s genocide and enabling roles of external actors including governments and corporations. Click HERE for video, intro and transcript.

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Israel orders evacuations in northern Gaza as Trump calls for war to end, by Nidal al-Mughrabi | Reuters  CAIRO — The Israeli military ordered Palestinians to evacuate areas in northern Gaza today before intensified fighting against Hamas, as U.S. President Donald Trump called for an end to the war amid renewed efforts to broker a ceasefire. READ MORE . . .  Click HERE, HERE and HERE for reports from AP, the Cradle and Middle East Eye.

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Israel claims Hamas military leader assassinated in Gaza air strike. From Middle East Monitor. The Israeli army claimed Saturday it assassinated Hakham Muhammad Issa Al-Issa, a founder of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, in an airstrike in Gaza City, Anadolu reports. READ MORE . . .

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Netanyahu ‘does not want a deal,’ says Hamas official. From Middle East Eye. Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi said today that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is putting forward “impossible conditions” for reaching a ceasefire deal in Gaza. READ MORE . . .

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FROM JUNE 27  ‘Just killed, for nothing,’ by Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams / ScheerPost  Israel Defense Forces commanders ordered troops to shoot and shell aid-seeking Palestinian civilians in Gaza, even when they posed no threat, according to IDF officers and soldiers interviewed by Israel’s oldest daily newspaper. READ MORE . . .   Click HERE and scroll down for related report from the Cradle.

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FROM JUNE 26  Three blows against Zionism in a single day, by Joe Lauria | Special to Consortium News  The impunity with which Zionism invades and bombs its neighbors and shuts up its critics in Western nations was thrown into question perhaps as never before on June 24 as Zionism suffered a legal, a political and a military defeat all in one day. That morning, Washington time, . . . READ MORE . . .

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