For today, links to reports from Middle East Eye, Reuters, National Public Radio, and the Associated Press, Reuters, and Consortium News; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names below. (MEDIA 8-25-25 is HERE, or scroll down. GAZA and UKRAINE entries for today are HERE and HERE, or scroll up.) — MCM
NOTE: All of the links below also appear on other entries.
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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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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. 26 Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital kill 22 people, including 5 journalists. Reported by A Martínez, Aya Batrawy, Anas Baba and Willem Marx | NPR KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Israeli forces killed 22 people, including five journalists, in two consecutive strikes on Gaza’s largest functioning hospital, drawing global condemnation and prompting a rare admission of regret by the Israeli government. Click HERE to listen and read, and HERE for Aug. 25 NPR report.
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FROM AUG. 25 Mariam Dagga, AP freelance journalist in Gaza, was killed by an Israeli strike, by Sam Mednick and Samy Magdy | AP Mariam Dagga, a visual journalist who freelanced for the Associated Press and other news organizations and produced harrowing images of the war in Gaza, was killed Monday by an Israeli strike on a hospital. She was 33. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for a selection of Dagga’s photographs for AP.
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FROM AUG. 26 Israel kills Middle East Eye journalists in double-tap strike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital. Middle East Eye. Israeli forces killed Middle East Eyejournalists Mohamed Salama and Ahmed Abu Aziz on Monday, in a double-tap strike on the Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip. READ MORE . . .
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FROM AUG. 26 Reuters, AP demand ‘urgent and transparent accountability’ into Israel’s killing of journalists at Gaza hospital. Middle East Eye. Reuters and the Associated Press have sent a joint letter to Israeli officials demanding a “clear explanation” for double-tap air strikes that killed five journalists at a hospital in Gaza on Monday. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from Anadolu Ajansi.
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