For now, links to eleven reports: from Reuters, the Associated Press, National Public Radio, Middle East Eye, Haaretz, and Middle East Monitor; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date, so far, and a MEDIA entry are HERE and HERE.) — MCM
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Israeli planes bomb southern Lebanon after radio blasts, by Walid Saleh and James Mackenzie | Reuters BEIRUT / JERUSALEM — Israel bombed southern Lebanon today and said it had thwarted an Iranian-led assassination plot, a day after explosions of Hezbollah radios that came on the heels of blasts in booby trapped pagers, setting the foes hurtling towards war. The sophisticated attacks killed 37 people and wounded around 3,000 over two days, sowed disarray in . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israel turns its focus north toward Lebanon and Hezbollah. From AP. Israel’s defense minister has declared the start of a “new phase” of the war as Israel turns its focus toward the northern front against Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. Two waves of explosive attacks hit Syria and Lebanon on Tuesday on exploding pagers and Wednesday on exploding walkie-talkies . . . READ MORE . . .
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Beirut is on edge after 2 waves of explosions that used pagers and walkie-talkies. Reported by Jane Arraf and Leila Fadel | NPR In Lebanon, victims were buried after a cyberattack Tuesday that detonated thousands of hand-held pagers used by the militant group Hezbollah. The next day there was a second wave of attacks. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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FROM SEPT. 18 UN General Assembly widely supports a Palestinian resolution demanding Israel end its occupation, by Edith M. Lederer | AP UNITED NATIONS — The UN General Assembly strongly supported a nonbinding Palestinian resolution Wednesday demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the occupied West Bank within a year. The vote in the 193-member world body was 124-14, with 43 abstentions. Among those in opposition . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from Middle East Eye.
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The significance of the lethal cyberattacks Israel is accused of carrying out. Reported by Greg Myre and Steve Inskeep | NPR The explosions in Lebanon are the latest in a series of lethal attacks attributed to Israel, and carried out against its leading enemies in their heavily guarded capitals. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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FROM SEPT. 18 How the Israeli attacks in Lebanon are affecting Gaza ceasefire talks. Reported by Michele Kelemen | NPR The deadly pager and electronic device blasts in Lebanon are complicating U.S. efforts to reach a Gaza ceasefire. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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FROM SEPT. 18 Hezbollah devices explode again in Lebanon, raising fears of wider Israel conflict, by Laila Bassam and Maya Gebeily | Reuters BEIRUT — Hand-held radios used by armed group Hezbollah detonated on Wednesday across Lebanon’s south in the country’s deadliest day since cross-border fighting erupted between the militants and Israel nearly a year ago, stoking tensions the day after similar READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from AP.
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Hamas targets Israel military vehicles in Rafah. From Middle East Monitor. The Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, released footage on Wednesday showing its fighters targeting Israeli military vehicles in combat zones east of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. It showed an Israeli Namer armoured personnel carrier and a . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM SEPT. 18 Germany has stopped approving war weapons exports to Israel, source says, by Riham Alkousaa | Reuters BERLIN — Germany has put a hold on new exports of weapons of war to Israel while it deals with legal challenges, according to a Reuters analysis of data and a source close to the Economy Ministry. A source close to . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from Haaretz.
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