For today, links to reports from Reuters and Middle East Eye; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names below. (SYRIA, YEMEN, GAZA, LEBANON and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down. WEST BANK 3-18-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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Israel’s security cabinet approves independence for 13 West Bank settlements. From Reuters. JERUSALEM – Israel’s security Cabinet approved a plan to separate 13 Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank from their neighbouring communities, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said today. The settlements, he posted, will . . . READ MORE . . .  Click HERE for report from Middle East Eye.

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