For now, links to reports from the Associated Press, Middle East Monitor, and Middle East Eye, and to analyses from MintPress News via ScheerPost and from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft; other published material is accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up or down for today’s WEST BANK, MEDIA, GAZA and IRAN so far, and down for LEBANON 6-6-26.) — MCM
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Israel strikes Beirut’s southern suburbs days after U.S.-supported ceasefire deal, by Kareem Chehayeb, Samy Magdy and Melanie Lidman | AP BEIRUT — Israel struck Beirut’s southern suburbs without warning today, days after a ceasefire agreement in Washington went into effect and despite a U.S. request not to attack Lebanon ‘s capital. Iran had warned that . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish; and HERE for others.
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EU calls for ‘full accountability’ after another UNIFIL soldier killed in Lebanon. From Middle East Monitor. The EU foreign policy chief today condemned the killing of another UN Interim Force in Lebanon soldier on June 4 and renewed the bloc’s calls for accountability, Anadolu reports. READ MORE . . .
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Trump calls for more ‘surgical’ strikes on Hezbollah. From Middle East Eye. In an interview aired today on NBC, U.S. President Donald Trump advocated more “surgical” attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon, while at the same time saying he was “very close” to a deal with Iran. READ MORE . . .
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FROM JUNE 6 Pentagon raises alarm over Israel’s ‘unhinged’ spying on U.S. officials, by Elis Gjevori | Middle East Eye The Pentagon has raised Israel’s counterintelligence threat level to its highest category, NBC News and the New York Times reported on Saturday, exposing behind the scenes tensions in a relationship Washington often treats as untouchable. READ MORE . . .
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FROM JUNE 2 NDAA: New U.S. bill would fuse Israel and U.S. militaries into one, by Alan MacLeod | MintPress News / ScheerPost Amid widespread and growing public opposition to the Israeli genocide of Gaza and South Lebanon, a controversial new bill seeks to formally integrate the U.S. and Israeli militaries like never before, making it difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins. READ MORE . . .
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FROM MAY 29 Congress quietly moves to integrate U.S. and Israeli militaries, by Ben Freeman | Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Buried in the House’s version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act released on May 26, is section 224, entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” READ MORE . . .
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