For now, links to SIX reports: from Reuters, the Associated Press, the Cradle, and Middle East Monitor; others are accessible by clicking on their name or initials. (Scroll up or down for today’s UKRAINE, GAZA, IRAN and ALL OF IT so far, and down for LEBANON 6-26-26.) — MCM

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Hezbollah rejects Israel-Lebanon security deal. From Reuters. Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem today rejected a U.S.-brokered security agreement between Lebanon and Israel, a day after it was signed, describing it as a surrender to Israel. READ MORE . . .  Click HERE, HERE and HERE for reports from AP, the Cradle, and Middle East Monitor.

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Lebanon orders security crackdown on protests against ‘seditious’ Israel deal. From the Cradle. Lebanese judicial authorities today ordered state security to take forceful measures to suppress public “rioting” after protests erupted opposing the government’s signing of a “trilateral framework agreement” legitimizing Israel’s occupation of south Lebanon. READ MORE . . .

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FROM JUNE 26  Israel and Lebanon sign framework agreement with U.S. in ‘first step’ toward peace, Rubio says, by Ben Finley, Abby Sewell and Melanie Lidman | AP  WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio joined Israel and Lebanon’s ambassadors to the U.S. Friday to announce a framework agreement that was described as a first step toward peace following months of conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. READ MORE . . .