For today, a link to a report from the Associated Press, and a map from Encyclopedia Britannica; others are accessible by clicking on its initials below. (SYRIA, IRAN, LEBANON, GAZA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down.  WEST BANK 2-17-25 entry is HERE.) — MCM

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Palestinian families flee West Bank homes in droves as Israel confronts militants, by Isabel Debre | AP  FAR’A REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank — By car and on foot, through muddy olive groves and snipers’ sight lines, tens of thousands of Palestinians in recent weeks have fled Israeli military operations across the northern West Bank — the largest displacement in the occupied territory since . . . READ MORE . . .

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