For now, links to five reports: from the Associated Press, Middle East Monitor, the Cradle, and Middle East Eye; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up or down for today’s WEST BANK, UKRAINE and IRAN so far, and for GAZA 7-17-26.) — MCM
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FROM JULY 17 Israeli drone strike on funeral gathering in central Gaza kill 8, injures 20. From Middle East Monitor. At least eight Palestinians were killed and 20 others injured Friday when an Israeli drone struck a civilian gathering during the funeral of a Palestinian who had been killed earlier by Israeli forces in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, despite a ceasefire, Anadolu reports. READ MORE . . .
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FROM JULY 17 Israeli war chief praises devastation of Gaza as ‘deliberate policy.’ From the Cradle. A report aired on Channel 14 on July 12 shows Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz and other senior officials openly celebrating the apocalyptic destruction of Gaza and the mass killing of Palestinians and their forced displacement to tent cities near the beach. READ MORE . . .
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FROM JULY 17 Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ abandons Gaza ‘recovery plan’: report. From Middle East Eye. U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” has shrunk its Gaza “recovery plan” from rebuilding territory to a temporary camp of “portable cabins” under Palestinian administration, police and a small international security force, the Guardian reported on Thursday. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from the Cradle.
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