For today, links to five reports: from the Cradle, Axios, the Associated Press, and Anadolu Agency; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (GAZA 7-17-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.  WEST BANK, SYRIA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down.) — MCM

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Mossad chief pushes for U.S. assistance in ethnically cleansing Gaza, during Washington visit. From the Cradle. David Barnea, the director of Israel’s Mossad spy agency, held meetings in Washington this week seeking help from U.S. officials to convince countries to take hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who Israel plans to ethnically cleanse from Gaza, Axios reported today. READ MORE . . .  Click HERE for report from Axios.

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Over 30 Palestinians killed trying to reach U.S. group’s food distribution sites, Gaza authorities say, by Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | AP   DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli troops opened fire today toward crowds of Palestinians seeking food from distribution hubs run by a U.S.-, Israeli-backed group in southern Gaza, killing at least 32 people, according to witnesses and hospital officials. READ MORE . . .  Click HERE for report from Anadolu Agency.

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FROM JULY 18  Christian patriarchs make rare visit to Gaza after deadly Israeli strike on church, by Waffa Shurafa, Julia Frankel and Fatma Khaled | AP  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Top church leaders visited Gaza on Friday after its only Catholic church was struck by an Israeli shell the day before, an attack that killed three people and wounded 10, including . . . READ MORE . . .

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