For today, links to five reports from National Public Radio, Middle East Monitor, Reuters, and the Associated Press, and to commentary from Substack and Middle East Eye; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM
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FROM JUNE 6 Israel used a U.S.-made bomb in a deadly UN school strike in Gaza. Reported by Daniel Estrin and Anas Baba | NPR TEL AVIV / NUSEIRAT, Gaza Strip — The Israeli military made improper use of a U.S.-made bomb in a deadly airstrike Thursday, June 6, on a United Nations school compound in Gaza, according to current and former U.S. defense officials who analyzed an image of the bomb remnants documented by NPR at the site. The munition . . . Click HERE to listen and read.
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EU urges independent investigation of Israel deadly attack on school-turned-shelter. From Middle East Monitor. The EU Foreign Policy chief today called for an independent investigation after dozens of people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza, Anadolu Agency reports. Josep Borrell said . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israeli forces batter central, south Gaza with renewed truce bid at impasse, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters CAIRO — With no sign of progress in mediators’ arduous efforts to broker a ceasefire in the Gaza war, Israeli tanks and warplanes . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israeli strikes kill at least 18 in central Gaza a day after attack on UN-run school. From AP. Overnight Israeli airstrikes in central Gaza killed at least 18 people, including children, health officials said today. Strikes hit the Nuseirat and Maghazi refugee camps and Deir al-Balah and Zawaiyda towns, they said. READ MORE . . .
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Women and children of Gaza are killed less frequently as war’s toll rises, AP data analysis finds, by Josef Federman | AP JERUSALEM — The proportion of Palestinian women and children being killed in the Israel-Hamas war appears to have declined sharply, an Associated Press analysis of Gaza Health Ministry data has found, a trend that both coincides with Israel’s changing battlefield tactics and contradicts . . . READ MORE . . .
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The ceasefire deal that wasn’t, by Seymour M. Hersh | Substack There was no breakthrough offer of a “comprehensive new proposal” from Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders in Tel Aviv, as they would make clear . . . READ MORE . . .
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Why Hamas cannot accept Israel’s ceasefire proposal, by David Hearst | Middle East Eye If anyone owns the daily carnage in Gaza being carried out by an angry and humiliated Israeli army, whose ranks are filled with religious settlers, it is . . . READ MORE . . .