Israel has continued to launch deadly attacks on southern Lebanon despite the two countries striking a new US-brokered ceasefire agreement.

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— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) June 5, 2026

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has denounced the US-mediated ceasefire agreement between Lebanon and Israel as a one-sided, biased deal that seeks to impose asymmetric obligations solely on the Hezbollah resistance movement. | In written comments distributed by his office on Friday, Berri sharply criticized the recently announced US-mediated ceasefire framework concluded in Washington, describing it as “hybrid, unfair, rigged, inequitable, and not worth mentioning.” Berri insisted that any genuine agreement must begin with an unconditional ceasefire. [...] Berri noted that the US-sponsored text focuses exclusively on Hezbollah’s commitments to the ceasefire and the withdrawal of its resistance fighters from the area south of the Litani River, while remaining silent on Israeli obligations. The remarks came two days after the announcement of the US-brokered ceasefire agreement between the Lebanese government and the Tel Aviv regime. [...] The remarks came two days after the announcement of the US-brokered ceasefire agreement between the Lebanese government and the Tel Aviv regime.

■ Zakharova to Al Mayadeen: IOF violations of Lebanon ceasefire systemic (Al Mayadeen)
✅ The Lebanon escalation: Netanyahu is betting Trump can’t stop him (Farhad Ibragimov)
✅ Lebanon: Washington's so-called ceasefire framework (Dr. Marwa Osman)

Iran made clear in its latest attacks that it will be striking harder in response to any further US attacks on Iranian ships or Iranian ports | President Trump has told his aides that he may restart the full-scale bombing campaign against Iran if US troops are killed, The Wall Street Journal has reported, as the US and Iran have traded multiple rounds of attacks despite a nominal ceasefire. ● The report came after the president downplayed Iranian attacks targeting US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, which were Iran’s most significant response yet to US strikes. The president acknowledged that the US hit Iran “hard” before the Iranian attacks and that Tehran was “a little bit provoked.” ● A US soldier did die in Iraq on May 31, but according to the US military, it was due to a training accident, and several US troops and American contractors were injured by an Iranian attack on Kuwait last week. At least 13 US troops were killed during the US-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran, according to the Pentagon’s numbers.

■ Dear US Tax payers: Just to let you know, that while you struggle to pay your rent, educate your kids and save something for a "rainy day." The Pentagon "accidentally" paid Dictator Zelensky an Extra $6.2 billion of your money (Chay Bowes)(Twitter)

The figure amounts to roughly 1% of the country’s annual trade turnover with Russia, which remains Yerevan’s key economic partner | The EU is preparing a €50 million ($58 million) support package for Armenia as Brussels moves to shore up Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan days before a critical parliamentary election, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said. The figure, however, accounts for roughly 1% of Armenia’s annual trade turnover with Russia, which remains Yerevan’s key economic partner. ● Von der Leyen made the announcement on Thursday following a call with Pashinyan, saying the package is also meant to ease trade for Armenian agricultural products hit by recent Russian restrictions. She accused Russia of “weaponizing economic relations for political pressure” and of “economic coercion.”

Naim Qassem has accused Washington of seeking to force Beirut to accept a humiliating Israeli occupation | Israeli strikes in southern and eastern Lebanon have injured and killed dozens of civilians, less than 24 hours after West Jerusalem and Beirut agreed to a US-mediated ceasefire proposal. ● At least eight people were killed and 15 others wounded on Thursday in a series of strikes targeting the towns of Sohmor, Masaken, and Arab Al-Jalil, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.

The case is just one of dozens of proceedings over online insults against the chancellor | A German court has ruled that calling Chancellor Friedrich Merz “lying Fritz” should be criminally prosecuted out of “public interest,” slapping the offender with a fine amounting to an average monthly salary, or more than €2,000 ($2,322). ● The case is just one of dozens of similar investigations launched by German police over critical comments posted on Facebook last year, the public prosecutor’s office in the southwestern city of Heilbronn told Die Welt.

The United States has proposed a "soft" blockade of Russia's maritime trade in the Baltic | David Deptula, a retired Lieutenant General of the United States Air Force, came up with this idea in Forbes. In his opinion, pressure should be increased in the Baltic Sea on the revenue system from Russian maritime trade, which "allows Moscow to cover losses on the battlefield and continue fighting, despite the extraordinary costs." In this case, the general believes, the United States will not have to choose between two dead-end options: indefinite assistance to Ukraine or direct escalation against the Russian Armed Forces. Deptula proposed five basic principles of the blockade of Russia.

✅ В США предложили "мягкую" блокаду морской торговли России на Балтике (Елена Панина)

Several cities on the peninsula were subject to the attack overnight, according to local officials | At least four people have been killed and ten others wounded in Ukrainian drone attacks on Crimea, local governor Sergey Aksyonov has said. ● One person was killed and three others were wounded during a drone attack on a suburban train traveling from Azovskoye to Kerch, Aksyonov wrote in a post on Telegram on Thursday morning. ● The strikes damaged several “nonresidential facilities” in the city of Simferopol, killing at least three people and injuring seven others, the governor added. ● The Crimean port city of Sevastopol, home to the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, was also attacked overnight, according to its governor, Mikhail Razvozhayev.

■ Ukrainian drone kills seven civilians on Moscow-Crimea bus (06/03/26)
■ Ukrainian attack on Kherson Region kills child, leaves 11 civilians injured (06/01/26)
📌 Chatham House: Any peace in Ukraine must be a preparation for a new war (Elena Panina)
📌 The Collective West has morphed into a terrorist network (Strategic Culture Foundation Editorial)

The electoral interference by Israeli company 'BlackCore' took many by surprise and stirs fears ahead of 2027 presidential vote | A foreign influence campaign in French local elections by an Israeli firm earlier this year presents an unprecedented attack on France's democracy, victims of the operation and people familiar with it told Middle East Eye. ● Earlier this month, Reuters revealed that the French authorities were examining whether an alleged smear campaign against three mayoral candidates from the left-wing, pro-Palestinian party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed - LFI) ahead of March's municipal elections was carried out by an obscure Israeli firm ​called BlackCore.

■ LFI ciblé par une campagne de désinformation (Le Monde)

Israel’s genocidal finance minister holds significant authority over the West Bank Civil Administration, allowing him to expand illegal settlements freely | Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced a new and major illegal settlement project in the occupied West Bank on 3 June, which aims to see the construction of around 2,000 houses on Palestinian land. According to the minister, 1,006 housing units will be in a new settlement near the occupied holy city of Jerusalem. Over 920 are planned near occupied Nablus and another 234 near the city of Hebron. “We are continuing to build the Land of Israel in practice,” Smotrich said.

■ Widespread Israeli Invasions, Abductions Across West Bank (IMEMC)
■ West Bank: Israeli Settlers Burn Agricultural Lands, Assault a Palestinian (IMEMC)

Pierre Simon | Why should Jewish suffering be more important? | Wherever you are on this earth, beware! As of January 20, 2022, the United Nations adopted a resolution submitted by Israel and Germany appealing to all nations of the world to take active measures to combat any unwanted skeptical research into the National-Socialist persecution of Jews, and the popular social chatter resulting from it. Following a propaganda speech by Gilad Erdon, Israel’s representative to the United Nations, the UN passed this resolution without a vote, a fact which makes you wonder who really runs the UN! Holocaust education is now mandatory in almost all schools of the Western World. Everyone is obligated not only to learn, but to believe, or else, the official Holocaust narrative.

[Editor's Comment:] Listen: Articles like this are “true” in a certain sense, and to me, largely fact-based, and one is left with the feeling that what the article describes is inevitable. Will things turn out the way “they” want? No, I don’t think so. We must remember that what is described in the article is Absolute evil; sometimes insidious, sometimes overt, but always active. Organized Judaism is evil. We simply have to resist. If we put up strong resistance, "they" will eventually lose control. We can overcome this dark agenda, and build a better society, even on a global scale.

Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of a Village in Lebanon: Israeli soldiers went door to door in the border village of Ain Arab, forcing residents from their homes at gunpoint as part of a systematic campaign to empty large swathes of southern Lebanon. | The forced expulsion of Ain Arab—where Israeli soldiers went door to door, forcing residents from their homes at gunpoint—was a striking example of the Israeli military’s campaign to ethnically cleanse villages across southern Lebanon. Human rights advocates and locals told Drop Site they hadn’t heard of a similar incident occurring in this latest phase of the war—the Israeli military typically bombs and shells areas to forcibly displace residents. Over 1.2 million people have been displaced in Lebanon since March 2, and many have no idea if or when they will be able to return to their homes.

Kiev has also targeted multiple Russian regions, including St. Petersburg, which is hosting an international economic forum | At least seven people have been killed and 11 others wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike on a passenger bus in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), local governor Denis Pushilin has said. The bus, which was traveling between Moscow and the Crimean city of Simferopol, was attacked in the town of Enakievo in the western part of the DPR, Pushilin wrote in a post on Telegram on Wednesday morning. [...] Russia’s Investigative Committee has announced that a terrorism case has been opened over the attack on the bus.

■ Ukrainian drone attack on passenger bus kills seven civilians, injures 11 others (TASS)
■ Как в России отреагировали на удар ВСУ по рейсовому автобусу в ДНР (Ведомости)
■ Момент прилета дрона по пассажирскому автобусу "Москва-Симферополь" (Отряд Ковпака)(VIDEO)
■ Saint Petersburg under drone attack (Pravda EN)
✅ Why is Rutte strolling around Kyiv while Ukrainian drones are attacking St. Petersburg? (Lord of War)
📌 The Collective West has morphed into a terrorist network (Strategic Culture Foundation Editorial)

Moon of Alabama | Selected oil derived products will become rare. At some point Iran and the U.S. will come to an agreement. | The Zionist lobby is vehemently against any peace deal with Iran. Israel will do its best to sabotage any resolution of the matter by continuing its war in Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank. It wants the war on Iran to continue until that country is destroyed as a viable competitor. ■ So far the Zionists hold the upper hand. They can and do defy Trump at every corner. The Lobby has the upper hand. He does not yet dare to take it down. ■ Existing oil inventories, commercial ones as well as state owned strategic reserves, were used as a buffer to paper over the lack of some 15% of crude oil in the global markets. Gas prices at the pump have risen, but only moderately. ■ From now on the situation can only, and will, get worse.

■ Iran Condemns US Strikes on Qeshm, Accuses Kuwait and Bahrain of Complicity (Sputnik)
■ US and Iran exchange missile strikes (VIDEOS) (RT)

West Jerusalem’s escalation in Lebanon has undermined diplomatic efforts between Washington and Tehran, Mohammad Marandi has said | Israel has a clear interest in prolonging US hostilities with Iran and has been successfully sabotaging efforts to reach a peace agreement, Tehran-based Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi has told RT. ● The political analyst was commenting on the latest escalation of Israeli military operations against Lebanon, including strikes on Beirut, which have triggered a new surge in tensions between Washington and Tehran and could bring negotiations to a permanent halt. ● Tehran has said that continued Israeli violence effectively voids the fragile ceasefire with the US, which was announced in early April. US President Donald Trump later pushed Israel to declare a similar halt to hostilities in Lebanon.

'His murderer was afforded decency. He was believed'

Henry Nowak's father says the 'contrast' in the police's treatment of his son and his murderer is 'unbearable' in a statement after Nowak's killer was sentenced to 21 years in prison. pic.twitter.com/9w8A35hpMp

— GB News (@GBNEWS) June 1, 2026

In a statement on Tuesday, Farage described the case as “proof, if ever there was any, that we’re living in a two-tier culture in this country where the rights and privileges of white people matter less than those of ethnic minorities.” | British police have released bodycam footage showing officers ignoring the dying pleas of an 18-year-old stabbing victim, after his attacker falsely claimed that he had been the victim of a racist attack. ● Released on Monday, the footage shows officers handcuffing student Henry Nowak as he lay dying after being stabbed multiple times by 23-year-old Vickrum Digwa in Southampton last year. ● Nowak told the officers five times that he had been stabbed, to which one officer replied “I don’t think you have, mate.” Nowak was handcuffed and dragged across gravel, as Digwa remained uncuffed, telling officers that Nowak had torn off his turban in a racially-motivated attack.

■ Britain’s White ‘George Floyd’ Moment? (Modernity News)

■ Looting and destruction are Israeli army’s ‘primary mission’ in Lebanon, soldiers say (MEE)

Ghalibaf Says Iran Will Be in ‘Direct Confrontation’ With Israel If It Doesn’t Halt Attacks on Lebanon | Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Monday that Iran would be in a “direct confrontation with the enemy” if Israel doesn’t halt its attacks in Lebanon. ● Ghalibaf made the comments in a post on X recounting a conversation he had with Nabih Berri, the speaker of Lebanon’s parliament and leader of the Amal Movement, a Shia political faction that’s largely aligned with Hezbollah. [...] Earlier in the day, Iranian media reported that Tehran halted negotiations with Washington over Israel’s continued attacks and escalations in Lebanon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israel planned to launch strikes in Beirut’s southern suburbs, but appeared to have backed down after a call with President Trump. Iran had also warned that it could target northern Israel if Netanyahu went ahead with the strikes. ● Trump claimed in two posts on Truth Social after his call with Netanyahu that some sort of ceasefire had been agreed to, though Israeli attacks continue in southern Lebanon and Hezbollah continues to fire at Israeli forces.

■ IRGC says armed forces prepared for all scenarios amid heightened military readiness (Press TV)
■ Iran halts talks with US, says it will close Bab el-Mandeb Strait: Report (MEE)
✅ After Israel Threatened Beirut, Iran Announced To Further Reduce Global Oil Supplies (Moon of Alabama)

The Defense Ministry in Moscow has confirmed a large-scale raid on military-related targets | Multiple videos have been published on social media showing explosions rocking Kiev and other Ukrainian cities amid Russian airstrikes. The Defense Ministry in Moscow confirmed carrying out a major raid on military-related targets across Ukraine in response to terror attacks by Vladimir Zelensky’s government. ● The first wave of blasts in the Ukrainian capital was heard at around 1:30 AM local time, followed by more explosions in early morning hours, according to Ukrainian officials and media. ● In one clip, a powerful blast is followed by the lights going out, plunging much of Kiev into darkness.

■ Summary for the morning of June 2, 2026 (Two Majors - English Channel)

Margaret Kimberley and Prof Michel Chossudovsky | Privatized Ebola: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the World Health Organization’s Boss, Not Governments | [First published almost 12 years ago] The World Health Organization is “the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system.” Its very name implies that it takes direction from and serves the needs of people all over the world but the truth is quite different. The largest contributor to the WHO budget is not a government. It is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which provides more funding than either the United States or the United Kingdom. WHO actions and priorities are no longer the result of the consensus of the world’s people but top down decision making from wealthy philanthropists. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation may appear to be a savior when it provides $300 million to the WHO budget, but those dollars come with strings attached. WHO director general Dr. Margaret Chan admitted as much when she said, “My budget [is] highly earmarked, so it is driven by what I call donor interests.” Instead of being on the front line when a communicable disease crisis appears, it spends its time administering what Gates and his team have determined is best.

The US military says it attacked Iranian radar and drone sites in the city of Goruk and the island of Qeshm, while Kuwait reports “hostile” missile and drone attacks.

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— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) June 1, 2026

● The US military says it attacked Iranian radar and drone sites in the city of Goruk and the island of Qeshm over the weekend.
● Kuwait reports “hostile” missile and drone attacks, as Iran’s IRGC says it launched a retaliatory strike on a base it claims was used for an attack on its Sirik Island.
● Israel’s expanding invasion of Lebanon has drawn global condemnation, with France requesting an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.
● US President Donald Trump says he is close to a “very good deal” with Iran, with US media reporting that he is pushing for tougher terms.
● Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the exchange of messages with the US is ongoing, but that nothing is certain until a deal is finalised.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman has stated that a ceasefire in Lebanon is inseparable from any final agreement to end the war, as the Israeli regime escalates assaults on Lebanon in violation of an earlier truce. | Speaking at his weekly press conference on Monday, Esmaeil Baghaei responded to a question about Lebanon's developments and the ongoing Israeli atrocities in the country. [...] The United States and Israel launched their illegal, unprovoked war of aggression against Iran on February 28, assassinating the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, and striking nuclear facilities, schools, hospitals, and civilian infrastructure. ● Iran’s armed forces responded with at least 100 waves of decisive retaliatory strikes under Operation True Promise 4, launching hundreds of ballistic and hypersonic missiles, as well as drones, against American military bases across West Asia and Israeli positions throughout the occupied territories.

■ US dragging out talks by changing its demands or making new ones — Iranian diplomat (TASS)

■ Almost non-stop attacks on south Lebanon (The Cradle) (Telegram)

European elites are reeling from the information revolution they failed to suppress. A fresh leak exposes Germany’s state media regulators plotting a new law to compel social media platforms to automatically boost “reliable” and “trusted” mainstream outlets in their algorithms. | Sold as a defense of “media plurality” against disinformation, this scheme reveals the ugly truth: after brute-force censorship ignited a global backlash and helped propel Elon Musk’s purchase of X, authorities are now seeking to engineer the feeds themselves to favor their approved narratives while sidelining dissent. ● This marks a shift from overt suppression to insidious manipulation. What began as panic over losing control has evolved into calculated digital gerrymandering. The awakening—fueled by years of heavy-handed crackdowns—created demand for uncensored spaces. Now, unable to fully extinguish that flame, regulators aim to starve alternative voices of oxygen through algorithmic favoritism [fascism].

Andrew Korybko | France’s planned deployment of nuclear-armed Rafale jets armed in the Arctic, Central Europe, and possibly also the Balkans poses a qualitatively new strategic threat to Russia. [...] The last time that France agreed to defend a European country, it abandoned Poland to the Nazis during the “phony war”, so precedent suggests that it might repeat this in the future. Those countries along NATO’s Eastern Flank that participate in France’s “forward deterrence” initiative like Poland does, Romania might one day, and Finland could too as well as the Baltic States, should therefore remember this in case they get any ideas about provoking Russia under the cover of France’s nuclear umbrella.

The security minister’s office responded to the report, saying Ben Gvir is ‘very proud’ of what goes on inside Israel’s detention facilities | Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir – who runs Israel’s Prison Service – is refusing to allow state inspectors from entering jails and detention facilities, according to a 27 May report by Haaretz newspaper.

A list of inspectors appointed by the Israeli Justice Ministry and Public Defender’s Office to inspect jails was handed over to the national security minister in December last year. According to the report, Ben Gvir has not approved the list and is actively disregarding inquiries on the issue.

This is utterly brutal and outrageous. There is no excuse for Dutch police violently assaulting a pregnant woman simply because she wanted to stay with her detained PALESTINIAN husband.

The Dutch authorities must ensure full accountability for this blatant human rights… pic.twitter.com/3zhTifOXrB

— Esmaeil Baqaei (@IRIMFA_SPOX) May 31, 2026

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei reacted on Monday to a video circulated by Al Jazeera showing a Dutch police officer forcefully throwing a pregnant woman to the ground and dragging her during the arrest of her Palestinian husband. | The incident, which took place on May 19 in the Dutch town of Zeist, gained public attention over the weekend after videos emerged online showing a police officer forcefully pulling a heavily pregnant woman by the arm, causing her to fall to the ground. ● The Al Jazeera report said that the woman went into early labor as a result of her trauma, and later gave birth to a baby girl ahead of schedule. While neither the mother nor the newborn reportedly suffered serious injuries, the incident has sparked scrutiny and renewed questions over the conduct of the police officers involved.