Links to FIVE reports and analyses: from Middle East Eye, Middle East Monitor, and Consortium News; others are accessible by clicking on its name as highlighted. (Scroll down for LEBANON 4-10-26 and IRAN.) — MCM

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Israel says it attacks more than 200 Hezbollah sites in Lebanon. From Middle East Eye. Additionally, the Israeli military said it would continue targeting Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon. The Lebanese health ministry said today’s death toll from Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon has risen to 10. READ MORE . . .

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Death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon since March 2 rises to 1,953. From Middle East Monitor. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Friday that another 6,303 were injured, Anadolu reported, but that the figures remain preliminary as rescue teams continue clearing rubble and a large number of remains require DNA testing to confirm the identities of victims.

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What the Lebanese government wants from the talks with Israel, by Adam Chamseddine | Middle East Eye  BEIRUT — Caught between Israeli belligerence, Iranian power projection and lukewarm American attention, the Lebanese government is trying . . . READ MORE . . .

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Ceasefire exemptions and quarries of death, by Binoy Kampmark | Middle East Monitor  In the Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defines peace as a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.  The Israeli version of a ceasefire might be . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM APRIL 10  U.S. diplomacy’s last breath, by Patrick Lawrence | Special to Consortium News  Israel’s just-announced plan to enter talks with the Lebanese government will come to nothing; whatever is said or agreed, whatever others may insist, the bombing will continue. And Trump, in his regime’s serial dishonesty these past weeks, has reshaped the conventions of American diplomacy in the Israeli fashion. READ MORE . . .

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