Links to reports from National Public Radio and Middle East Eye; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up or down for today’s GAZA, LEBANON, SYRIA, IRAN and UKRAINE, and down for WEST BANK 8-13-26.) — MCM

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Mike Huckabee says Israeli settlers atacking West Bank homes are ‘terrorists.’ Reported by Frank Langfitt and Leila Fadel | NPR  Israeli settlers have besieged three homes in the occupied West Bank, including one owned by a Palestinian American. U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee referred to the settlers as “terrorists.” Click HERE to listen and, later, read.

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Israel to shift civilian enforcement in West Bank from army to police. From Middle East Eye. Israel is preparing to replace the army in the West Bank with civilian police forces, in a move seen as further advancing the annexation of the occupied Palestinian territory. READ MORE . . .

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