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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-06-28 at 15:01
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- Jun 28, 2026
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HEADLINES US-backed Lebanon zones push Hezbollah disarmament Drone strike kills Israeli tank commander Canadians condemn antisemitism in open letter The time is now 3:01 PM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report. In Regional Impacts, a new agreement between Israel and Lebanon, backed by a US guarantee, makes clear that Israel will withdraw from southern Lebanon only after Hezbollah has been removed from the area. The deal sets two zones in southern Lebanon to be taken over by the Lebanese Army as pilot zones where plans to disarm Hezbollah will be implemented in the coming weeks. The arrangement follows days of regional diplomacy, including a memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran and the US acknowledgment of Iran’s involvement in Lebanon. Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, led the Israeli delegation with representatives from the National Security Council, and Brigadier-General Amichai Levin, who represented IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Eyal Zamir, joined the talks. The IDF presented maps outlining potential withdrawal locations as part of the agreement, which frames a path for Hezbollah disarmament within a broader regional context. In the Conflict with Iran and its Regional Proxies, the IDF’s initial probe into the June 19 disaster in southern Lebanon finds that the tank carrying the commander of the 52nd Battalion and three soldiers was struck by an explosive-laden drone rather than an anti-tank missile; the military says the investigation is ongoing. In Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Hate, a group of more than 70 non-Jewish Canadians published an open letter in major publications condemning antisemitism, forming the Stopping Antisemitism movement. The 78 professionals, inclu…