The Lebanese government has been left at the âmercyâ of the US and Israel after signing on to the Washington-brokered framework agreement, argues Ziad Abu Rish, an associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Bard College in the US state of New York.
He noted that Zawthar al-Gharbiya remains the only village Israeli forces have withdrawn from under the framework agreement and Israel has since publicly declared it is no longer interested in creating additional withdrawal zones.
Xavier Abu Eid, a political analyst and former adviser to the Palestinian negotiations team, says the Board of Peace and Resolution 2803 of the UN Security Council were accepted late last year because it was argued at that time that they were the only way to end the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
âBut it was very clear from the very beginning that the 20-point plan of President Trump and the 15-point disarmament and implementation plan that followed were more about meeting Israeli interests than the Palestinian right to self-determination,â he said.
Richard Weitz, an international security expert at the NATO Defense College, says the US is highly unlikely to accept Iranâs demand for compensation or any other conditions it has set for reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
âPresident Trump has explicitly excluded that [paying Iran compensation] and it wouldnât have support in Congress to fund such a proposal,â Weitz told Al Jazeera.
âIn fact, this whole list of conditions ⊠Iran has reinserted is going to be a deal-breaker for the White House,â Weitz added.
The announcement that Hamas has agreed to a roadmap for its disarmament can now shift that dynamic, yet it is unlikely things will change on the ground anytime soon.
âThe last thing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants going into Octoberâs elections is US pressure to withdraw from Gaza, and itâs likely he will foot-drag any further negotiations as much as possible,â Norman said.
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Al Jazeeraâs Barnaby Lo reported from an anti-US protest taking place outside the ASEAN summit in the Philippines, which US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is attending.
Protesters condemned the US war on Iran and said that Rubio is a âwar criminalâ.
âTehran has repeatedly overplayed its hand throughout history, and these repeated attacks across the Gulf Cooperation Council could end up making the Strait of Hormuz redundant,â Kamrava told Al Jazeera.
He noted some Gulf countries have already invested in alternative routes to export oil and gas.
âTehran is running a real danger of overplaying its hand,â Kamrava reiterated.
The US launches new strikes on Iran after two American soldiers were killed in Iranian strikes in Jordan.
US President Donald Trump says the deaths were âa very sad thingâ, adding that âweâre never allowing Iran to have a nuclear weaponâ.
A comparison of European Sentinel-2 satellite images captured on July 7 and July 12 shows newly formed impact scars inside the Bushehr complex, along with another apparent strike site within nearby support facilities.
The open-source unit of Al Jazeera Network compiled satellite imagery, field footage and official data from the US Central Command (CENTCOM) to map the locations of US strikes across Iran between July 7 and July 15.
Anywhere between 41 to 43 million people participated in the six-day funeral ceremony for Iranâs slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Iranian media report.
Iranâs Press TV called Khameneiâs funeral âthe largest procession the world has ever witnessedâ. Ceremonies took place across five cities: Tehran, Qom, Najaf, Karbala, and Mashhad.
The next phase of US-Iran talks in Doha depends on Washington implementing the memorandum of understanding it signed with Tehran, an analyst says.
Zohreh Kharazmi, a professor at the University of Tehran, told Al Jazeera she does not expect major progress on the Strait of Hormuz unless the terms of the MoU are carried out by the US.
âThe articles of the MoU should be realised to have a step forward. The ball is in the United Statesâs court,â she said.
âThere is not really an opposition in Israel when it comes to wars. When it comes to wars, to occupation, to apartheid, there is no opposition,â Gideon Levy, a columnist at Israeli newspaper Haaretz, told Al Jazeera.
âThey all think the same. There is an opposition to Netanyahu in person, a very devoted one, a very decisive one. But not against the wars,â he added.
As regional powers are discussing whether or not Lebanon is included in a deal between Iran and the US, this isnât necessarily a moment of peace here. In fact, it is a moment of danger, just like it was on April 8, when there were discussions on whether or not Lebanon was going to be included in the deal.
The Israeli prime minister and his military made it clear that it would not be, and later that afternoon it turned into the deadliest day of the war as more than 350 people were killed.
There is a positive understanding here in Tehran about this memorandum of understanding.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through its spokesperson, told the media this evening that, yes, there is a proposal; it is now under consideration by the supreme leader of Iran, and also the top leaders of the country, and that it might well end in a kind of signing.
But the news about a location and timing are probably speculations at this moment.
It was April 10, 2024, during the Eid al-Fitr holiday, at the end of the holy month of Ramadan. The Gaza civil servant had been beaten, tortured, bound and forced to soil himself since his arrest by Israeli soldiers a month earlier.
The soldiers and their guard dogs surrounded him that day. âThere were six soldiers on the right and six on the left,â he recalled. âThey would ask your name. If you said âMuhammadâ, they would say, âNo, say your name is b****.ââ
Al-Bakri said he was held with seven other prisoners. They were all stripped, blindfolded and handcuffed.
âWe were raped after being stripped of our clothes,â he said. âWe were shouting, âOh Lord, oh Godâ, but they were just laughing and filming us.â Al-Bakri then echoed what several rights agencies have also reported â that guards also used dogs during the sexual abuse of prisoners. âThe dogs were following commands from the officers to [attack] us,â he said.
âThere was no mercy. We stayed in that state of sexual abuse and beatings for about 20 minutes to half an hour. Then they told us to get dressed and took us back to the prison.â
Wadephulâs bid won 104 votes in the UN General Assembly, falling 23 short of the two-thirds majority required for election.
This is the first time Germany has failed to win a rotating seat on the Security Council after decades of successfully securing one of the Western European seats every eight years.
Analysts say âstrategic leaksâ aim to influence public perceptions amid diplomatic impasse in US-Israel war on Iran.
Israel is escalating in Gaza âbecause it knows it will not encounter severe oppositionâ, and in Lebanon âbecause so far the world is letting Israel get away with itâ.
âThe value is that you can move these quickly,â she said. âThey are mobile launch systems, in some cases man-portable. We donât know how high the Reaper was flying. Based on the released video, it may have been relatively easy for them to shoot down, but it still indicates they retain some remaining air defence capability.â
Iranâs larger air defence network has been badly damaged. It was built around older radar-guided surface-to-air missile systems, including domestically produced batteries and Russian-supplied missile defence systems such as the S-300. Israeli and US attacks are widely believed to have degraded much of that network.
According to the analyst, the changes involved a ceasefire provision that was expected to cover Lebanon and the issue of unfreezing certain Iranian assets.
Ahmadian said the shift came after a phone call between Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Nayef Samaro left work in Nablus to run errands for his wife, who was hours away from delivering their first son by caesarean section.
The 26-year-old soon-to-be father was excited, despite the Israeli army raiding his city.
But before the birth, an Israeli soldier shot Nayef in the head, leaving him to bleed out in the street.
He never saw his son.
Watch our report here:
A 45-year old man is occupying the top of Washingtonâs Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge to protest the war on Iran. Guido Reichstadter spoke to Al Jazeera from atop the structure – listen to what he had to say.
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Now, Hezbollah can continue to fire rockets across the border, and it has been doing that. Hezbollah has also been trying to slow Israelâs ground invasion in the south. But as you can see, Israel is the one that has the upper hand. It controls the skies, it can cause death, it can cause destruction, and this is all heaping pressure on the population and on the Lebanese government.
Hezbollah was counting on Iran having the leverage to silence this front, but that has not happened yet, despite statements from Iranian officials.
Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Wishah has been killed by an Israeli drone attack in Gaza.
We will bring you more on this shortly.
This is unprecedented really, perhaps since 1982 and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon back then. There were 100 air strikes in the span of 10 minutes, many targeting areas in Beirut that wouldnât be traditionally seen as in any way related to Hezbollah.
Israeli drones and fire from a military vehicle killed at least 10 people in an area close to the Maghazi camp in Gaza, according to reports by Al Jazeera from a source in Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
A UN staff member was also shot and killed by Israeli forces and injured three others.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) employees were travelling in a vehicle in southern Gaza when Israeli soldiers opened fire on them.
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In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks, President George W Bush launched what he called a âwar on terrorâ, a global military campaign that reshaped US foreign policy and triggered wars, invasions and air strikes across numerous countries.
According to an analysis by Brown Universityâs Watson Institute of International & Public Affairs, US-led wars since 2001 have directly caused the deaths of about 940,000 people across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and other conflict zones
The war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran entered its 25th day on Tuesday, as conflicting claims emerged over possible peace talks.