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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-07-18 at 11:02
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- Jul 18, 2026
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HEADLINES Iran claims strike at US base Tanf West Bank wildfires drive regional evacuations New York mayor weighs Netanyahu arrest The time is now 11:01 AM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report. In Iranian Retaliation, Iran claimed it attacked a United States special operations command center in Tanf, southern Syria, on July 17, but the United States said no troops were harmed and a Syrian military source reported no attack. Tanf’s garrison had been withdrawn earlier this year. The claim appears to follow a July 16 border incident in which Syrian security forces stopped a shipment of weapons to Hezbollah from Iraq, including a tanker truck with missiles and drones. Analysts say the move may be intended as a message to Syria and a means to keep weapons flowing to Hezbollah via Syria, a dynamic that existed before the Assad regime’s collapse and that the current Syrian government has publicly sought to curb by naming Hezbollah and highlighting Iraqi involvement. Separately, Professor Mohammad Mardandi, a member of Iran’s negotiating delegation, warned that if President Trump continues to strike civilian targets, the United Arab Emirates would be next in line. In Regional Impacts, a broad set of events across the region centered on fires, evacuations, and new tensions. In the West Bank, two fast-moving wildfires spread from Samaria toward residential areas, burning about 13 homes and damaging several vehicles, including a fire truck. Police evacuated residents and closed part of Highway 55 as twenty-seven fire and rescue teams, aided by a helicopter and four firefighting aircraft, fought the blazes near Kedumim, with a second fire in Shimshit prompting further evacuations in the Jezreel Valley. No serious injuries were reported,…