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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - October 3, 2026, 05 PM Eastern · 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: In Gaza, Israel's military announced Saturday it conducted an airstrike
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  Speaker 1: targeting Ali al-Maudi, described as Hamas's top leader in the strip,
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  Speaker 1: and involved in planning the October 7th attacks. The strike,
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  Speaker 1: which occurred on the anniversary of the deadly 2023 assault
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  Speaker 1: according to the Jewish calendar, targeted an apartment building. Local
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  Speaker 1: officials reported that five people were killed in the pre-dawn strike,
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  Speaker 1: including four women. An official at Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital
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  Speaker 1: told AFP that five bodies and a number of injured
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  Speaker 1: were received following the strike in the Rimal neighbourhood. The
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  Speaker 1: Israeli military stated they took steps to mitigate civilian harm
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  Speaker 1: using precise munitions and regret any harm caused to uninvolved individuals.
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  Speaker 1: Noting that al-Ahmadi was struck to remove a threat and
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  Speaker 1: was considered directly involved in Hamas's terror activities, and rebuilding
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  Speaker 1: the organisation. Israel said it is reviewing whether he was
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  Speaker 1: killed or injured. Former hostage Emily Damry has shared harrowing
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  Speaker 1: accounts of her captivity. She recounted being operated on by
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  Speaker 1: a Hamas doctor for an injured hand following her October
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  Speaker 1: 7 abduction. Damry described being surrounded by 10 armed terrorists
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  Speaker 1: at Shefa Hospital, with a corpse lying nearby during her ordeal. Economically,
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  Speaker 1: the Iranian rial has fallen to a new record low
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  Speaker 1: against the US dollar, trading at 2.688 million to the dollar,
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  Speaker 1: just days after a previous nadir. In response, Iran's central
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  Speaker 1: bank has injected US $ 2 billion into the market. Officials
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  Speaker 1: have attributed the currency's decline to predictions of collapse from Washington.
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  Speaker 1: In the United States, New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani
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  Speaker 1: has renewed his call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's
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  Speaker 1: arrest over alleged war crimes. Mamdani urged the United States
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  Speaker 1: to join the International Criminal Court and enforce its warrants.
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  Speaker 1: He reiterated accusations he made prior to Netanyahu's UN General
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  Speaker 1: Assembly address, calling the Prime Minister the architect of a
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  Speaker 1: horrific genocide. Prime Minister Netanyahu has previously criticised Mamdani, stating
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  Speaker 1: that Jews no longer feel safe in New York under
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  Speaker 1: his leadership. Mamdani, however, dismissed the criticism as an attempt
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  Speaker 1: to distract from the allegations. Domestically, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's
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  Speaker 1: recent secret trip to Abu Dhabi has drawn attention. particularly
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  Speaker 1: following a report by Israel's Channel 12, while he was
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  Speaker 1: still abroad. The Shin Bet filed a complaint alleging a
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  Speaker 1: violation of military censorship rules. Reports suggest Netanyahu asked UAE
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  Speaker 1: President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan to deny a prior
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  Speaker 1: report that the Emirati leader had warned him about a
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  Speaker 1: looming Hamas attack before October 7, 2023. Netanyahu's office denies
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  Speaker 1: this request was made. Meanwhile, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Givia
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  Speaker 1: and his party Yehudit Yehudit, have been ordered by the
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  Speaker 1: Central Elections Committee Chairman Justice Noam Solberg to remove a
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  Speaker 1: video filmed during a prison visit to a convicted terrorist.
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  Speaker 1: The committee ruled the video constituted election propaganda produced using
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  Speaker 1: public resources and ordered Ben-Givia and his party to pay
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  Speaker 1: NIS 20,000 in legal costs. Ben-Givia had appeared in the
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  Speaker 1: video saying he wanted to kill the terrorist and make
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  Speaker 1: his life in prison hell. Regarding aviation security, A source
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  Speaker 1: told the Jerusalem Post that Israel received a full passenger
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  Speaker 1: and crew manifest for FlyJubai flight FZ1073 prior to its departure,
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  Speaker 1: a standard procedure mandated by 2023 Knesset legislation. This comes
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  Speaker 1: amid reports that the pilot, suspected of attempting to hijack
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  Speaker 1: the flight, was previously banned from flying by Omani authorities
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  Speaker 1: over concerns about his radical ideological views, though it's unclear
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  Speaker 1: if FlyJubai was aware. Security forces are also reportedly assessing
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  Speaker 1: responsibility for the incident. And finally, a group of Israelis
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  Speaker 1: celebrated Simchat Torah near the Nova Music Festival memorial site
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday, despite a ban issued by the Israel Police
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  Speaker 1: and the Keren Kaimath Le Israel Jewish National Fund. The
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  Speaker 1: KKLJNF stated the site is for remembrance and communion, not celebrations,
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  Speaker 1: with KKLJNF Chairman Eyal Ostrinsky drawing parallels to holding parties
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  Speaker 1: at Auschwitz. Bereaved family members expressed deep distress over the event.
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  Speaker 1: In more personal news, the Bonzel family continues to honour
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  Speaker 1: the memory of their son, Amit, who fell in Gaza
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  Speaker 1: on December 6, 2023. Through initiatives like Amit Street in
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  Speaker 1: their hometown and a synagogue named in his memory, they
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  Speaker 1: share his life lessons and values, inspiring their community. For
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  Speaker 1: I'm Noah Levi, thank you for listening to Israel Today
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