Al-Monitor's Jack Dutton speaks to protesters about their most recent targets, including Barclays bank and UK summer music festivals. Israeli strikes hit Gaza on Friday as truce talks with Hamas militants failed to progress, a suspected Israeli strike rocked southern Lebanon late Thursday night and more than a million Muslim pilgrims were in Mecca Friday to begin the Hajj pilgrimage.

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Iran’s Interior Ministry has announced the final list of presidential candidates approved by the hard-line Guardian Council. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is back in the Middle East, Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and oil giant Saudi Aramco said that international investors had snatched up the bulk of shares sold in its latest offering.

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Ezgi Akin, Al-Monitor’s Turkey editor, discusses Turkish Foreign Minister Fidan's visit to China this week. Lebanon’s head of the military, Joseph Aoun, is heading to Washington next week, Yemen’s Houthi rebels have detained at least 15 Yemeni employees of UN agencies and other aid organizations, and Saudi Arabia says the hajj will start on June 14.

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