Entries for today have been late and slow in coming, and are somewhat shorter than usual.

In this one, a link to a report from Middle East Eye; others are accessible by clicking on its name below. (Scroll up or down for LEBANON 12-18-25 and for MEDIA, GAZA and UKRAINE.) — MCM

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Bombed churches and air strikes: Celebrating Christmas in south Lebanon, by Madeline Edwards and João Sousa | Middle East Eye  DERDGHAYA, Lebanon  Mass began at 9 a.m. Twenty, then perhaps 30, people filed into the small sanctuary from the howling winter winds outside. READ MORE . . .

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