For today, links to reports from Middle East Eye, the Associated Press, Reuters, and Consortium News; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names below. (GAZA 8-26-25 is HERE, or scroll down.  UKRAINE and MEDIA entries for today are HERE and HERE or scroll down.) — MCM

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U.S. contractors in Gaza pursued MEE journalist before his killing, by Khaled Shalaby, Daniel Hilton and Nadav Rapaport | Middle East Eye  TEL AVIV — U.S. contractors at a Gaza aid centre interrogated a source of Middle East Eye journalist Mohamed Salama seeking information about his identity and whereabouts before he was killed — alongside MEE reporter Ahmed Abu Aziz and three other journalists on Monday morning. READ MORE . . .

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Israel calls Gaza City evacuation ‘inevitable’ as U.S. hosts talks on post-war Gaza, by Wafaa Shurafa, Sam Metz and Sally Abou Aljoud | AP  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli and U.S. officials will meet in Washington today to discuss post-war Gaza, even as Israel’s military calls the evacuation of Gaza City “inevitable” ahead of a military offensive and with no sign of a ceasefire in sight. READ MORE . . .  Click HERE for report from Reuters.

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Hussam al-Masri, the Reuters journalist killed by Israeli fire in Gaza. From Reuters. Hussam al-Masri, the Reuters journalist killed by Israeli fire on Monday while operating a live video feed at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, reported on the war’s civilian suffering while himself living in a tent and struggling to find food for his family. READ MORE . . .

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FROM AUG. 19, 2025, and OCT. 4, 2011  Why Palestine is already a state, by Joe Lauria | Special to Consortium News  A combination of mistakes, whether through ignorance or design, and significant omissions of fact have left the American public misinformed about why the Palestinians have gone to the United Nations and what . . . READ MORE . . .

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