For now, links to FOUR reports: from the Cradle, Reuters, Middle East Eye, and the Associated Press; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up or down for today’s UKRAINE, IRAN, MEDIA and ALL OF IT, and down for LEBANON 6-8-26.) — MCM
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Wave of mass displacements hits Lebanon’s Tyre as Israeli massacres continue. From the Cradle. The Israeli army issued new forced displacement orders against Lebanese civilians in south Lebanon’s ancient city of Tyre (Sur) today, prompting its residents to flee in a panic. READ MORE . . .
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Israel kills eight in strike on Lebanon; U.S. rescues helicopter crew from Hormuz, by Phil Stewart, Maya Gebeily and Tala Ramadan | Reuters WASHINGTON / BEIRUT / DUBAI — Israel struck the historic port city of Tyre in southern Lebanon today, killing at least eight people, in an escalation that adds strain to efforts to broker a peace deal to end the wider Middle East war. On Monday, Israel and Iran halted direct attacks . . . READ MORE . . .
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In south Lebanon, Israeli drones use the sound of crying children to lure civilians, by BEIRUT — “This is not the first time these drones have flown over us and broadcast different sounds,” Hashem, a paramedic, said. “Yesterday, it was the sound of children screaming and pleading for help. Before that, they broadcast the sound of an ambulance. Another time . . . READ MORE . . .
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