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Erdogan Claims Israel Destabilizes Syria Amid Election Fears · Israel Today: Ongoing War Report

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Israel Today ongoing war report. I'm Noah Levi.
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  Speaker 1: We begin with escalating regional tensions. Turkish President Recep Tayyip
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  Speaker 1: Erdogan claimed Monday that Israel is actively working to destabilize Syria,
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  Speaker 1: warning that Turkey finds itself surrounded by a ring of
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  Speaker 1: fire due to intensifying conflicts. Erdogan also implicitly criticized Israel
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  Speaker 1: for working against Turkey's interests. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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  Speaker 1: expressed hope to avoid a direct confrontation with Turkey, though
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  Speaker 1: he voiced scepticism about improving ties under Erdogan due to
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  Speaker 1: the Turkish president's rhetoric. In Damascus, Syrian officials are reportedly
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  Speaker 1: growing concerned that Prime Minister Netanyahu might undertake an extraordinary
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  Speaker 1: military operation in Syria in the final days before Israel's election,
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  Speaker 1: seeking a political advantage. While no specific intelligence about a
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  Speaker 1: planned Israeli operation has been indicated. Concerns have reportedly risen
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  Speaker 1: following recent statements and actions by Israeli officials. This comes
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  Speaker 1: after Netanyahu publicly revealed he had spoken directly with Syrian
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  Speaker 1: President Ahmed al-Sharrar during past violence affecting Syria's Druze community,
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  Speaker 1: stating Israel remains committed to protecting them. Turning to Gaza,
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  Speaker 1: at least four Palestinians, including a married couple and a 17-year-old,
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  Speaker 1: were killed in separate incidents on Tuesday amidst a supposed
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  Speaker 1: ceasefire period. according to health officials. Medics reported an Israeli
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  Speaker 1: airstrike killed Akram Yassin and his wife Dina Abu-Baker in
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  Speaker 1: Gaza City, with the Israeli military stating it struck a militant.
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  Speaker 1: In the south, a 17-year-old was killed by Israeli gunfire,
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  Speaker 1: as was another individual east of Gaza City. The Israeli
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  Speaker 1: military has not immediately commented on these gunfire incidents. A
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  Speaker 1: relative of one of the victims described the ongoing violence, saying,
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  Speaker 1: We're supposed to be in a ceasefire period, but honestly
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  Speaker 1: we are not seeing a ceasefire or anything. The war
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  Speaker 1: is still going on, assassinations are continuing and the shelling
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  Speaker 1: has not stopped. Israel maintains that Hamas has been rearming
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  Speaker 1: and launching attacks in violation of the ceasefire, while Hamas
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  Speaker 1: denies these accusations and claims Israel is undermining a peace deal.
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  Speaker 1: Gaza health officials report at least 1,500 Palestinians killed by
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  Speaker 1: Israeli fire since the ceasefire began. with Israel stating four
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  Speaker 1: of its soldiers have been killed by militants in the
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  Speaker 1: same period. Domestically, families of slain hostages have accused Prime
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  Speaker 1: Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud party of exploiting their
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  Speaker 1: loved ones' deaths for political gain. In an open letter,
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  Speaker 1: they urged the party to stop using the election campaign slogan,
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  Speaker 1: We brought everyone home, stating that their loved ones' bodies
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  Speaker 1: returned in coffins, not alive. The families called on Netanyahu
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  Speaker 1: to apologise, take responsibility, and establish a state commission of
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  Speaker 1: inquiry into intelligence and security failures. Separately, former Attorney General
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  Speaker 1: Avichai Mandelblit testified in Prime Minister Netanyahu's ongoing criminal trial.
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  Speaker 1: A dispute arose over Mandelblit's approval to question Netanyahu as
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  Speaker 1: a suspect, with the defence challenging whether bribery was explicitly
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  Speaker 1: mentioned in the formal warning for Case 4000. Mandelblit broadly
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  Speaker 1: referred to public integrity offences, while the defence contested the
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  Speaker 1: wording used. On the international stage, President Donald Trump accused
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  Speaker 1: Iran's Islamic regime of killing a minimum of 75,000 protesters
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  Speaker 1: over the past eight months, a figure for which he
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  Speaker 1: did not provide a source. Speaking at a rally, Trump
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  Speaker 1: also asserted that the United States could end its military
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  Speaker 1: campaign against Tehran immediately, claiming Iran's forces have been devastated
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  Speaker 1: and that the country will not be permitted to acquire
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  Speaker 1: nuclear weapons. In news concerning anti-Semitism... Police in London are
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  Speaker 1: treating an assault on three Jewish women in Hackney as
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  Speaker 1: a suspected anti-Semitic hate crime. A 33-year-old man was arrested
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  Speaker 1: after volunteers detained him. The women sustained minor injuries. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: model Miriam Matova faces severe online abuse and death threats
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  Speaker 1: after speaking out against anti-Semitism and supporting Israel and is
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  Speaker 1: demanding stronger accountability from social media platforms. For continuing coverage
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  Speaker 1: of anti-Semitism around the world, Listen to Antisemitism, watch from
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  Speaker 1: Clockwork Media. Find it at clockworkmedia.org slash watch. I'm Noah Levi,
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