"We want the situation to improve and the war to end": one year after the 7 October attack and the bloody conflict between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas, which has since spread to neighbouring Lebanon against Hezbollah, the citizens of the Maghreb countries are reacting. "It is a date of struggle, a date of freedom, a date of asserting the right to self-determination," says Baraa Abougrein, a Libyan law student. "People all over the world are against this aggression," says Mohamed Mahfoud, a Moroccan pensioner from Rabat, referring to the war in Gaza that followed the 7 October attack. "We have been hearing about the death of Palestinians since we were very young," lamented Adil El Alaoui, another Moroccan. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES