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Here are links to reports from Middle East Eye, Middle East Monitor, the Associated Press, National Public Radio, and the Cradle; others are accessible by clicking on their names. (Scroll up or down for WEST BANK and IRAN, and down for LEBANON 6-18-26.) — MCM

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Israeli strikes kill over 47 in Lebanon since midnight. From Middle East Eye. Lebanon’s death toll due to Israeli airstrikes has risen to 47 killed since midnight, Al Mayadeen news reported. Al Jazeera reported that Israel has conducted at least 12 strikes on southern Lebanon since the implementation of the ceasefire agreement in the afternoon.

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Trump says U.S. must keep Netanyahu ‘a little bit sane’ on Lebanon. From Middle East Monitor. U.S. President Donald Trump said that Washington must keep Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “a little bit sane” on Lebanon, Anadolu Agency reports. READ MORE . . .

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Talks between the U.S. and Iran are called off because of fighting in Lebanon, officials say, by Erin Cunningham, Jon Gambrell and Aamer Madhani | AP  JERUSALEM — Talks between the U.S. and Iran were called off today after intense fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, officials said, raising questions about an initial agreement to end the war in Iran. Click HERE for more of this AP report and HERE for a second. Click HERE for report from NPR, and HERE for links to all six Iran war-related reports today from NPR’s “Morning Edition.” Click HERE for report from the Cradle.

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