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2026-05-31: Israel Roundup

So far today: 2026-05-31 08:53am GMT

Juan Cole (2026-05-31). South Lebanon's History of Resistance. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) The Israeli

Revolutionary Chalk Brigade, NAG (2026-05-31). Friday 5/29: Demonstration against genocide at the israeli consulate. indybay.org 456 Montgomery St | San Francisco…

aljazeera (2026-05-31). Panic on beach in northern Israel during Hezbollah strikes. aljazeera.com Videos show people on a beach in Nahariya, Israel running for shelter as Hezbollah rockets are launched.

Ramzy Baroud (2026-05-31). How Israel's War Crimes are Coming Home. juancole.com (

al-monitor (2026-05-30). Israel launches more south Lebanon strikes after warnings. al-monitor.com Israel launched strikes across south Lebanon Saturday after ordering evacuations from more than a dozen locations a day after its premier said Israeli forces had pushed even deeper into Lebanese territory.Lebanon's army said a "targeted" Israeli strike wounded two soldiers in the south, just a day after military delegations from both countries held landmark security talks in Washington.The military talks in the US capital came ahead of US-brokered negotiations early next week ⚪ the fourth round since the latest Israel-Hezbollah conflict erupted.

aljazeera (2026-05-30). Frustration in Lebanon as Israel expands invasion. aljazeera.com Israel's ground invasion of Lebanon has moved deeper into sovereign territory, with troops crossing the Litani river.

al-monitor (2026-05-30). Israel orders new evacuations as forces push deeper into Lebanon. al-monitor.com Israel's military issued evacuation warnings on Saturday for residents of seven villages in southern Lebanon, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces had pushed deeper into the country.The latest warnings came a day after military delegations from the two countries held landmark security talks in Washington and ahead of US-brokered negotiations early next week ⚪ the fourth round since the latest Israel-Hezbollah conflict erupted.

al-monitor (2026-05-30). What options as UN Lebanon exit looms? al-monitor.com Lebanon is seeking an international force to replace a decades-long United Nations peacekeeping mission whose mandate ends this year following US and Israeli pressure, even as the latest Israel-Hezbollah war continues.Concerns over the possible exit of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) with no alternative come with Israeli troops occupying south Lebanon's border areas, and as Israel and Lebanon hold direct negotiations seeking to end decades of hostilities.

Jared Szuba (2026-05-30). Lebanon and Israel hold military talks at Pentagon despite Israeli offensive: What to know. al-monitor.com A renewed Israeli offensive in southern Lebanon aims to extract concessions from Beirut in US-brokered diplomatic talks, but Lebanese military officials say there is no path forward until Israel halts its attacks and returns to the April ceasefire.

aljazeera (2026-05-30). Israeli soldiers reach Nabatieh, one of southern Lebanon's biggest cities. aljazeera.com Israel's military has advanced beyond Lebanon's Litani River for the first time since 2006.

al-monitor (2026-05-30). strongest card in nuclear talks: its highly enriched uranium. al-monitor.com By Francois MurphyVIENNA, May 29 (Reuters) – Iran and the United States are in discussions to extend their ceasefire so as to start negotiations on issues including Tehran's nuclear program, where Washington insists Iran must not be able to make a nuclear weapon.While much of Iran's uranium enrichment infrastructure was destroyed or badly damaged when Israel and the U.S. bombed it in June, a large part of the highly enriched uranium it amassed is thought to have survived. That is the biggest U.S. concern ahead of nuclear talks.

| agencies | (2026-05-30). Tehran says Trump 'betraying diplomacy' with Hormuz blockade. tribune.com.pk An adviser to Iran's supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei has accused US President Donald Trump of "betraying diplomacy for the third time" in his response to a current peace proposal. | Mohsen Rezaei, a military adviser to Iran's supreme leader, writes on X: "As expected, the president of the United States is betraying diplomacy for the third time." | The two previous times appear to refer to the Israeli bombing campaign launched on Iran in June last year, and the US-Israeli bombing campaign launched on February 28, both times amid indirect US-Iran nuclear talks. | "By continuing the naval blockade and making exce…

newleftreview (2026-05-30). Alexander Zevin: Trump's Gulf War. newleftreview.org Asymmetries of the US-Israeli assault on Iran, as an uneasy balance holds between Tehran's tourniquet on the Strait of Hormuz—and the world economy—and the enormous firepower of the aggressors, at the end of the first round.

al-monitor (2026-05-30). IMF, World Bank, others warn Middle East war is straining energy supplies. al-monitor.com May 29 (Reuters) – The heads of the International Energy Agency, International Monetary Fund, World Bank and World Trade Organization warned on Friday that the war in the Middle East was straining global energy supplies and hitting vulnerable economies hardest.The U.S.-Israel war on Iran has disrupted trade, rattled financial markets and raised concerns over global energy supplies, particularly through the Strait of Hormuz, a key route for oil and gas shipments.

Staff (2026-05-30). Unicef reporta 77 niños muertos o heridos en una semana por ataques de Israel en Líbano. cubadebate.cu El Fondo de Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (Unicef) denunció este sábado que 77 niños murieron o resultaron heridos en Líbano durante los últimos siete días debido a la ofensiva israelí, mientras el presidente libanés Joseph Aoun urgió a Estados Unidos a lograr un alto el fuego. En las últimas 24 horas, los ataques israelíes mataron a 31 personas e hirieron a 68 en territorio libanés.

aljazeera (2026-05-30). Two killed, including Palestinian doctor, in Israeli attacks on Gaza. aljazeera.com Several injured in Gaza, while Israeli settlers attack Palestinian homes and property across the occupied West Bank.

Mark J Willière (2026-05-30). Is Paris Redefining Its Red Lines on Human Rights and Israel? thinktank.pk The decision by Jean-Noà´l Barrot to launch a judicial inquiry into the treatment of French activists detained during the Gaza flotilla incident is more than a routine legal move. It signals a potentially significant shift in how France balances its traditional support for Israel's security with its growing insistence on accountability when French citizens and …

newleftreview (2026-05-30). Nancy Fraser: Gaza as World Event. newleftreview.org The global reverberations of Israel's destruction of Gaza, understood as world event—an epochal turning point which serves to reveal the changing nature of the times. Philosophical reflections on the rise of a new-era McCarthyism in Germany and the US.

Newsroom (2026-05-30). UN Reports 26 Killed in Gaza During Eid Holiday. moderndiplomacy.eu Monitors in the Occupied Palestinian Territory reported a rise in Israeli attacks as families prepared for Eid al-Adha. On May 26, three airstrikes killed 12 Palestinians, including a teenage girl who died from injuries sustained in an earlier strike. One airstrike targeted four men in Middle Gaza, while two others were killed in Khan Younis …

aljazeera (2026-05-30). Lebanese army 'overly stretched' to fight off latest Israeli invasion. aljazeera.com Geopolitical analyst Joe Macaron says the Lebanese army is 'overly stretched' as Israeli troops expand their occupation.

newarab (2026-05-30). Brooklyn shop backs Israel boycott after years-long fight. newarab.com A Brooklyn grocery store has voted to boycott Israeli products, in a decision that has turned one of At a three-hour virtual meeting on Tuesday, nearly 7,000 members of the Park Slope Food Coop took part in the vote — with 67 percent backing the measure, 31 percent opposing it and 2 percent abstaining. | Members first approved a s…

Ben Freeman (2026-05-30). Congress Is Poised to Integrate US and Israeli Militaries More Closely Than Ever. truthout.org At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the U.S. to the Israeli military more than ever before. Buried in the House's version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) released on Tuesday, is section 224, entitled "United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative. |

newarab (2026-05-30). Israeli settlers wound seven Palestinians in WB attacks. newarab.com The settler

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