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Hezbollah withdrawal, army deployment, US monitoring, and Israeli assessment of implementation: these are the elements of the "pilot zones" that have sparked controversy following the announcement of the ceasefire agreement.

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Thursday, June 4: A new ceasefire agreement reached after the latest round of Lebanese-Israeli negotiations.

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US President Donald Trump confirmed that his administration spoke with Hezbollah for the first time in the context of the latest negotiations between Lebanon and Israel for a ceasefire.

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Immediately after the Lebanese-Israeli negotiations round in Washington ended, Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter said the three parties at the meeting were “united in the goal of keeping Iran out of the equation,”

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Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir is advancing a bill to ban the call to prayer in mosques, another initiative that turns incitement into official legislation.

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Wednesday, June 3, 2026: Israel kills five paramedics in the South, Lebanon negotiates in Washington, and Kuwait escalates diplomatically after the Iranian response.

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Protests against the Trump family have reached Albania. What’s the story?

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has introduced a new term to describe Lebanon: "demilitarized," going beyond his usual call for the disarmament of Hezbollah.

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Asked about the insults he hurled at Benjamin Netanyahu during their latest phone call over the war on Lebanon, Donald Trump confirmed that he did use such language, before downplaying his anger and saying he had merely been “perturbed” with Netanyahu.

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The South’s agricultural season has been devastated, and the country is missing its citrus.

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From Khiam to Marwaniyeh, where they were targeted by Israel, and finally to Wardaniyeh, where they were laid to rest today on a temporary basis: the story of the Abdullah family and its six members—father Hassan Abdullah, mother Hanan Shehab, and their children Leen, Ali, Ibrahim and Julia.

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Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, said Israel’s actions over recent months in Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Gaza had earned it international “respect.” 🧵

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US ambassador to Israel, pastor Mike Huckabee, reaffirmed his support for Zionism during a speech to graduates of Yeshiva University in New York on Tuesday, citing the Bible as the basis for his position.

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Since this morning, the Israeli occupation forces have targeted six vehicles across Lebanon, the latest on the Khaldeh highway opposite Al Forno bakery, where an Israeli drone struck a car, causing injuries according to preliminary reports.

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Just meters from the historic Beaufort Castle lies the village of Yohmor al-Shqeef, which has been subjected to a large-scale military campaign in recent days, as shown in aerial photographs dated May 31, 2026, the day the Israeli army announced the capture of the fortress. đź§µ

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US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that Israel and Hezbollah reached a ceasefire agreement. đź§µ

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Tuesday, June 2, 2026: A fourth round of Lebanese-Israeli negotiations in Washington, as Israel carries out massacres in the South.

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Sky has cut ties with Sky News Arabia after the channel dedicated itself to promoting Emirati propaganda and denying all the massacres carried out by its ally, the Rapid Support Forces, in Sudan.

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More than 750 people were killed and 2,000 wounded in May alone. Here is a glimpse of life during the ceasefire last month.

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The death toll from the Israeli strike near Jabal Amel Hospital rose to 4 killed and 127 wounded, including 39 hospital staff members, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. 🧵

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Monday, June 1, 2026: Washington intervenes to prevent Israel from targeting Beirut’s Dahiyeh, aiming to avoid escalation in the region.

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The Israeli occupation forces targeted a residential area in Tyre near Jabal Amel Hospital, killing at least six people and injuring 23 others. The strike severely damaged the hospital, cutting power to the intensive care units and affecting the dialysis center and patient wards as well. đź§µ

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On Sunday, the Israeli government hosted Christian Zionists from around the world at the Knesset, where they prayed and asked God to forgive their countries for not offering enough support to Israel. đź§µ

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Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee ordered the evacuation of Beirut’s southern suburb after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced the resumption of strikes on the area, amid a broader escalation of Israeli attacks on South Lebanon. 🧵

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Following a joint statement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcing the resumption of strikes on Beirut's Dahiyeh suburb, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned at a military event that “Beirut will not know peace if there is no peace in the north.”

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Days after Bezalel Smotrich announced that the International Criminal Court would issue an arrest warrant against him, the Israeli Finance Minister participated on Sunday in the annual Israel Day Parade in Manhattan,

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Sunday, May 31, 2026: The Israeli army announces it captured Beaufort Castle.

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French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot stated on Sunday that his country rejects Israel’s occupation of Beaufort Castle and its expanded control over more Lebanese territory.

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Civil Defense centers, some residents and the head of the Union of Zahrani Municipalities, Ali Matar, received calls, on Sunday, from the Israeli army threatening the evacuation of eight towns in South Lebanon.

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Saturday, May 30, 2026: Salam defends negotiations, and the Israeli army threatens 13 towns in the South and the Bekaa.

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Israel killed four people on Friday in an airstrike on a building in Abbasiyeh, while another strike on Deir Qanoun al-Nahr killed one person. Separately, an Israeli drone targeted Mohammad Nehmat Tarhini, a municipal police officer in Aabba. đź§µ

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During her Class Day speech at Harvard University Medical School, graduate Leen Ezzedine paid tribute to the “youth of Dahiyeh, the sons of Nabatieh and the people of Tyre,” as well as Palestinians and Lebanese, praising their resilience amid Israeli occupation and the genocide in Gaza.

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Thursday, May 28, 2026: Israel targets Beirut’s southern suburbs for the first time in 22 days, intensifies military operations in Tyre and the Nabatieh districts. Benjamin Netanyahu claims that the Israeli army has crossed the Litani River.

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Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, announced on Thur that Israel was freezing relations with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, condemning a decision to place Israel on a blacklist of perpetrators of sexual violence in conflict, which has not yet been officially announced. đź§µ

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For the first time, US President Donald Trump linked the possibility of a deal with Iran to the expansion of the Abraham Accords, suggesting that any agreement with Tehran could be conditional on Gulf states' positions on normalization with Israel.

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The Israeli army is attempting to displace residents of Tyre, southern Lebanon's largest city. On Thursday morning, it escalated its offensive there, ordering the evacuation of eight buildings on the grounds that they are used by Hezbollah. đź§µ

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Tuesday, May 26, 2026: The Israeli army crosses the “yellow line” and launches an attack on Nabatieh.

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Construction began on a concert amphitheater in the settlement of Sderot, 840 meters from Gaza, in a new layer of enclosure of the Strip, where the genocide continues.

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The Israeli army launched a number of strikes on the city of Nabatieh on Tuesday, after threatening to evacuate it entirely. Direct airstrikes targeted the Rawdat al-Salihin cemetery in the city of Nabatieh.

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Within minutes, the Israeli army reduced a home where eight people live to rubble in the town of Nahalin, Bethlehem. Eid al-Adha now comes to the family as they insist on remaining there and celebrating, even atop the rubble.

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Residents of Tuba-Zangariyye, in the Upper Galilee, confronted minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Monday night as he tried to tour the town’s neighborhoods, amid a heavy presence of police and his personal security detail.

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The Israeli aggression against southern Lebanon is threatening the habitat of endangered sea turtles, after the Israeli army targeted the buffer zone of the Abbasieh Coast Nature Reserve two days ago.

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