These were the updates from US-Israel war on Iran as well as Israel’s attacks on Gaza and Lebanon from July 18, 2026.
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Alex Milan Durie is a Senior Producer for Al Jazeera English
These were the updates from US-Israel war on Iran as well as Israel’s attacks on Gaza and Lebanon from July 18, 2026.
![The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross [File: Jayden Brown/US Navy]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/9532152_cropped-1776099339.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Activists say Moroccan authorities are intensifying repression of critical voices and the Gen Z protest movement.
![El Youbi, born in 1992, is widely known in Morocco and across North Africa for his politically-conscious rap songs that rose to fame during the early 2010s. [File: Mehdi El Youbi support committee]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/photoehdi1-1784059429.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Human rights and media freedom organisations warned that the agreement prevents ‘recourse to international courts’.

The attacks mark a sharp spike in settler assaults on Palestinians and their homes and livelihoods in recent weeks.

These were the updates on the US-Israel war on Iran and Israel’s attacks on Lebanon for Thursday, July 2, 2026.

These were the updates from US and Israel’s war on Iran, as well as Israel’s attacks on Lebanon, from July 1, 2026.

These were the updates on the US and Israel’s war on Iran and Israel’s attacks on Lebanon from Tuesday, June 30, 2026.

Six found and one missing, NGOs say, after arrests at memorial gatherings for protesters killed in 2024.

Israeli strike kills one in southern Lebanon as many view latest agreement with Israel as a ‘surrender of sovereignty’.

The military government, in power since 2022 coup, accused France of having ‘neo-colonial ambitions’.
