(2026-06-29). Israeli army blows up tunnel in S. Lebanon, blast heard across region. ecns.cn BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, June 28 ⚪ The Israeli army detonated a tunnel in the southern Lebanese town of Majdal Zoun on Sunday, with the blast heard across wide areas, Lebanons state-run National News Agencyreported.
(2026-06-28). Key points from US-Israel-Lebanon agreement. al-monitor.com Washington on Friday released text of a trilateral framework between Israel, Lebanon and the United States aimed at ending hostilities that have been a violent second front of the Middle East war.The following are highlights of the 14-point agreement signed in the US capital: – 'Lasting peace' -Israel and Lebanon, with US support, "affirm their shared goal of achieving lasting peace and security," the agreement begins.
(2026-06-28). Iran, US continue escalating attacks, recriminations over peace deal. tribune.com.pk 
Iran and the US continued their attacks in the Gulf as each accused the other of violating an increasingly precarious interim deal signed less than two weeks ago to end their four-month-old war. | Shortly after President Donald Trump warned the US might "militarily complete the job", Iran early on Sunday launched missiles and drones on US military sites in Kuwait and Bahrain, continuing a series of escalating attacks. | Beyond the Gulf, Israel said it had struck Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon as fighting continued in an area Tehran says is key to its peace deal w…
(2026-06-28). Southern Lebanon Heritage Sites Damaged by Israel, Minister Says. moderndiplomacy.eu A crown was blown off an ancient column at a UNESCO-listed site in Tyre, Lebanon, and a pilgrimage site was destroyed in another southern town due to Israeli air and ground campaigns targeting the Hezbollah group. Lebanese Culture Minister Ghassan Salame reported that Israel's military actions over nearly four months have damaged numerous historical sites …
(2026-06-28). Lebanon framework deal 'overwhelmingly in Israel's favour'. newarab.com 
Analysts say that The 14-point framework signed in Washington was the product of weeks of The agreement requires Lebanon to press a…
(2026-06-28). Israel detonates tunnel, strikes south Lebanon as Hezbollah says has right to self-defence. al-monitor.com The Israeli army destroyed an extensive tunnel in southern Lebanon on Sunday, with Lebanese state media reporting strikes in the area and Iran-backed Hezbollah saying it reserves the right to respond to these attacks.The incidents came despite a trilateral framework agreement signed by Lebanon and Israel under US sponsorship on Friday to pave the way for peace between the two countries and disarm Iran-backed Hezbollah.
(2026-06-28). Iran and US Escalate Attacks as Both Sides Threaten Further Military Action. moderndiplomacy.eu Iran launched missile and drone attacks on U. S. military sites in Kuwait and Bahrain after President Donald Trump threatened severe consequences for Iran if they did not adhere to an interim peace agreement intended to end ongoing fighting. Following this, Israel attacked Iran-aligned Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, a day after a ceasefire deal was …
(2026-06-28). Israel damaged heritage sites across south Lebanon, minister says. al-monitor.com By Jihed Abidellaoui, Khalil Ashawi and Emilie MadiTYRE/BEIRUT, Lebanon, June 28 (Reuters) – A crown was blown off an ancient columnin a UNESCO-listed site in Lebanon's port city of Tyre. A pilgrimage site for Muslims and Christians alike was destroyed in another southern town. Israeli strikes pummelled the Mamluk-era market in the city of Nabatieh and troops razed centuries-old Lebanese border towns.
(2026-06-28). Israeli drone strike hits southern Lebanon day after security deal. al-monitor.com June 27 (Reuters) – Israel struck southern Lebanon on Saturday, a day after the two countries signed a U.S.-brokered security arrangement aimed at easing tensions along their border after months of hostilities.Lebanon's state news agency said an Israeli drone struck in Nabatieh al-Fawqa, which lies outside a security zone shown on a map published by Israel of an expanded zone its troops control in southern Lebanon.
(2026-06-28). 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.
(2026-06-28). Why must Hezbollah leave the Lebanese government immediately? thealtworld.com This document is not a Lebanese-Israeli agreement, but rather Zionist deception, and the Lebanese government merely stamps it. It will not end the war and bring peace; rather, it will exacerbate it and add "fuel" to its flames for one simple reason: the person who stamped it, purporting to represent the Lebanese people, has no relation to the conflict. Those who wage war are the ones who end it. Any agreement at this level of peril, regardless of its name, requires political consensus, but such consensus will not occur. | The convergence of Iranian and Lebanese routes, as well as their union under the banner of r…
(2026-06-28). Israel recognises Armenian genocide in rebuke to Turkey. newarab.com 
Commentators have blasted the move as ironic, given that UN experts and leading rights groups have determined that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. | This comes after a proposal was submitted last week by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, aimed at officially recognising the Armenian genocide…
(2026-06-28). Israel deliberately engaged in Genocide of Palestinian children: UN Inquiry. ummid.com Israel is deliberately killing Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank, an independent UN inquiry said in its report released Tuesday June 23, 2026.
(2026-06-28). Thousands in Gaza suffer hearing damage from Israeli attacks. newarab.com 
Tens of thousands of people in It also said that many people with disabilities have lost their assistive devices such as hearing aids and wheelchairs because of the war. | The UN published the report to mark the International Day of Deafblindness on 27 June. | UN agencies say the war has increased the vulnerability of people with disabilities amid widesp…
(2026-06-28). Israeli strikes, shelling in Gaza kill at least 4 Palestinians. newarab.com 
Israeli strikes across the The first strike targeted a group of people in northern Gaza's Beit Lahiya, killing two and wounding another, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. | Another Israeli strike in southern Gaza killed a man, according to health officials at And the 13…
(2026-06-28). 'Between pain and fear': Gaza children bear cost of ongoing Israeli attacks. aljazeera.com Suffering of Gaza's children continues unabated due to Israeli attacks despite 'ceasefire' reached in October 2025.
(2026-06-28). 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.
(2026-06-28). ICC judges sue Trump, administration in NYC over punitive sanctions. thecanary.co 
Three International Criminal Court (ICC) judges are suing Donald Trump and his administration in New York. The legal action concerns the Trump regime's punitive sanctions against ICC figures for issuing arrest warrants for wanted Israeli war criminals Benjamin Netanyahu and Yo'av Gallant. The judges say that the sanctions are an attempt to bypass the judicial […] | By
(2026-06-28). Israelis, Palestinians torn over sacred shrine in city of Hebron. al-monitor.com For Israeli settler Nitzan, Hebron's Old City and its sacred Cave of the Patriarchs shrine are a must-see for all of humanity, but for Palestinian Issa Amro, it has become a symbol of Israel's expanding grip on the city.Holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians and believed to be the burial place of biblical figures including Abraham, the site has long represented the competing claims that define Hebron, the largest city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
(2026-06-28). Israel strips the Hebron municipality of its planning powers, threatening to further erode the city's Palestinian identity. mondoweiss.net 
Hebron's Palestinian municipality held planning authority over the city for nearly 30 years. Israel revoked it this month, then swiftly approved a yeshiva in the Old City — redrawing who controls the city's land and future.
(2026-06-28). Jeffrey Sachs: The Greater Israel Project is Collapsing. scheerpost.com For further reading, the interview references the article "Stop 'Greater Israel' to Make Peace": In which Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares argue that the ideology of "Greater Israel" has become the driving force behind decades of conflict across the Middle East, describing it as an expansionist doctrine that continues to fuel war rather than security. …
(2026-06-28). Faiza Shaheen tells Burnham: abandon Israel to win back voters. thecanary.co 
Former Labour candidate Faiza Shaheen has told Andy Burnham what he needs to do if he's to win back the voters Keir Starmer drove away: #politicslondon asks, how can Labour win back lost voters?@faizashaheen: Build council houses. Make people materially better off through policies like free school meals. End arms sales to Israel. pic.twitter.com/sErsFewDoh — […] | By