Gaza, 10-30-26

Links to an interview via Consortium News and ScheerPost, and to a report from Common Dreams via CN; other published material is accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll down for this date’s WEST BANK, IRAN, YEMEN and UKRAINE, and for GAZA 10-29-26.) — MCM

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A people Israel can’t erase, by Joshua Scheer | ScheerPost / Consortium News  At the launch of the book Requiem for Gaza, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges explains how he and cartoonist Joe Sacco set out to preserve what Israel’s destruction threatens to obliterate: the voices and experiences of Palestinians themselves. Click HERE for video and transcript of Oct. 3 interview of Hedges by Art O’Connor in Dublin, Ireland, and Scheer’s introduction.

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Dockworkers in 22 countries strike against Gaza genocide, by Jake Johnson | Common Dreams / Consortium News  Dockworkers in more than 20 countries — from France to India to Greece — are withholding their labor on Friday to demand an end to Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza and highlight the role that commercial ports play in fueling deadly militarism worldwide. READ MORE . . .

 

Gaza, 10-12-26

Links to reports from  the Cradle and Middle East Monitor; others are accessible by clicking on their names. (Scroll up for today’s YEMEN and IRAN, and down for GAZA 10-9-26.) — MCM

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Israel expands occupation, strikes in Gaza on first anniversary of U.S. ‘ceasefire.’ From the Cradle. Israeli occupation forces expanded their presence in Gaza and escalated their bombing of the besieged strip on Sunday, coinciding with the one-year anniversary of U.S. President Donald Trump’s so-called ceasefire, which has seen Tel Aviv continue genocide and kill nearly 1,500 Palestinians. READ MORE.

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Israeli soldiers say ordered to drop heavy bombs on inhabited Gaza buildings without evacuation: report. From Middle East Monitor. Four Israeli military intelligence soldiers acknowledged they received instructions to use “heavy bombs” against inhabited buildings in the Gaza Strip without evacuating residents first, in strikes that killed and injured hundreds of Palestinians, according to a media report today. READ MORE.

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Gaza, 10-6-26

First, belatedly, a link to a report from the Associated Press; others are accessible by clicking on its name or initials. (Scroll down for today’s ALL OF IT, UKRAINE and YEMEN so far, and down for GAZA 10-5-26.) — MCM

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Much of the world sees tragedy in Gaza. Many in Israel, scarred by Oct. 7, see only a threat, by Cara Anna | AP  SDEROT, Israel — On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people in southern Israel and abducted 251 others, leading to a devastating war and, eventually, a fragile ceasefire. Three years on, . . . Click HERE for whole report including video and photos. Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others.

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TO BE CONTINUED

West Bank, 9-28-26

Links to two reports: from the Cradle and Middle East Eye; others are accessible by clicking on its name. (Scroll up or down for today’s UKRAINE, LEBANON, IRAN, YEMEN and ALL OF IT, and down for WEST BANK 9-9-26.) — MCM

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FROM SEPT. 27  Israeli finance minister calls for genocidal war on West Bank, annexation of south Lebanon. From the Cradle. Israeli Finance Minister and settler leader Bezalel Smotrich has called on Israel to “go to war” in the occupied Palestinian West Bank and “do there what we did in Gaza,” Israeli media reported on Sunday. READ MORE . . .  Click HERE for report from Middle East Eye.

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