For now, links to reports from Antiwar.com and Reuters, and to commentary via Countercurrents.org; others or at least headlines of others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (GAZA 6-5-25 is HERE, or scroll down.  WEST BANK, LEBANON and UKRAINE entries for this date, so far, are HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down.) — MCM

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Israel is arming an ‘ISIS-affiliated’ gang in southern Gaza, by Dave DeCamp | Antiwar.com / ScheerPost  Israeli opposition leader and former Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said on Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was arming a gang in southern Gaza that’s affiliated with ISIS, a charge that has been confirmed by Israeli officials. READ MORE . . .  Click HERE for June 6 report from Middle East Eye.

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U.S.-backed Gaza aid group says all distribution sites closed after shootings, by Ahmed Elimam and Alexander Cornwell | Reuters  DUBAI  — A U.S.- and Israeli-backed group handing out aid in Gaza said today all its distribution sites were closed until further notice, urging residents to stay away from these venues “for their safety” after a series of deadly shootings. READ MORE . . .

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FROM JUNE 4  Israel is fully integrating its Gaza ‘food aid hubs’ into the genocide, by Jonathan Cook | Countercurrents.org  Israel claimed it had not fired at starving Palestinians queueing on Sunday morning to get food from one of its highly militarised “aid distribution hubs” – a system Israel imposed on Gaza in place of a long-established and successful aid network run by the United Nations. READ MORE . . .

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