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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - September 29, 2026, 04 AM 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: We begin with significant developments in the West Bank. Overnight,
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  Speaker 1: clashes erupted near the Palestinian villages of Jalad and Qusra,
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  Speaker 1: where over 100 Israeli rioters confronted IDF soldiers and border police.
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  Speaker 1: Security forces were attempting to return a Palestinian family to
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  Speaker 1: its home, following earlier incidents of nationalist crime. The IDF
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  Speaker 1: reported that three border police officers sustained light injuries from
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  Speaker 1: stones and a security vehicle was damaged. Rioters also reportedly
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  Speaker 1: blocked roads, set tyres ablaze and damaged Palestinian-owned property. The
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  Speaker 1: mission to return the family was ultimately unsuccessful due to
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  Speaker 1: the violence. The incidents drew sharp condemnation from senior Israeli leadership.
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated, I strongly condemn the violent
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  Speaker 1: riots in Samaria overnight. and the harm inflicted on the
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  Speaker 1: security forces. He characterized the perpetrators as a fringe group
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  Speaker 1: of rioters that does not represent the law-abiding settler community
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  Speaker 1: in Judea and Samaria and interferes with our forces in
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  Speaker 1: carrying out their mission. President Isaac Herzog described the settler
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  Speaker 1: violence as a moral stain that stands in profound contradiction
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  Speaker 1: to Jewish values. Foreign Minister Gideon Sayar and Blue and
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  Speaker 1: White Party head Benny Gantz also denounced the riots, arson,
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  Speaker 1: and assaults on security forces, vowing that those involved would
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  Speaker 1: face the full severity of the law. In parallel, tensions
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  Speaker 1: have escalated between Israel and the Netherlands. Following a Dutch
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  Speaker 1: ban on settlement goods, Israel's foreign ministry has ordered Dutch
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  Speaker 1: diplomats to return their Israeli-issued documentation within seven days, revoking
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  Speaker 1: their diplomatic rights and immunities. Turning to Gaza, a joint
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  Speaker 1: operation by the IDF and ISA has resulted in the
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  Speaker 1: elimination of Israel Dean Bick. identified as the commander of
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  Speaker 1: Hamas' Northern Gaza Brigade. According to an IDF and ISA announcement,
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  Speaker 1: BIC was responsible for managing the brigade's terrorists, directing attacks
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  Speaker 1: against IDF troops and Israeli civilians, and working to restore
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  Speaker 1: the brigade's force build-up. The elimination was carried out in
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  Speaker 1: a precise aerial strike. Internationally, a significant diplomatic boycott marked
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  Speaker 1: a United Nations event on Monday. commemorating 25 years since
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  Speaker 1: the 2001 anti-Israel Durban Conference, over 40 countries refused to
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  Speaker 1: attend the UN gathering, setting a new record for boycotts,
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  Speaker 1: according to the Israeli delegation to the United Nations. The
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  Speaker 1: Israeli Foreign Ministry led a diplomatic campaign encouraging countries to
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  Speaker 1: avoid the event. Israeli Ambassador to the UN Dani Danon
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  Speaker 1: told JNS that, the lesson of Durban is that a
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  Speaker 1: noble cause can lose all credibility, when it is hijacked
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  Speaker 1: by hatred and political agendas, and stressed that the fight
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  Speaker 1: against racism should not become a vehicle for antisemitism or
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  Speaker 1: singling out the Jewish state. Evan R. Bernstein, CEO of
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  Speaker 1: Binai Birith International, commented that the record boycott demonstrates that
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  Speaker 1: much of the world is finally refusing to celebrate Durban's
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  Speaker 1: legacy of legitimising the demonisation of Israel and the Jewish people.
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  Speaker 1: In intelligence updates, Newly declassified details shed light on the
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  Speaker 1: events preceding the September 17 pager and walkie-talkie attacks in Lebanon.
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  Speaker 1: According to reports on Channel 12, citing former Defence Minister
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  Speaker 1: Yoav Garland, Israel identified and assassinated a Hezbollah operative in
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  Speaker 1: August 2024 who had begun to suspect the pagers intended
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  Speaker 1: for a major attack. Garland explained the elimination was staged
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  Speaker 1: to appear incidental to obscure the operative's specific knowledge. The
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  Speaker 1: report also disclosed that Iran subsequently sent testing and scanning
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  Speaker 1: equipment for the pages, which Israel destroyed. The September 17
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  Speaker 1: attacks resulted in at least 59 deaths and approximately 4,500 wounded. Economically,
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  Speaker 1: Iran's currency has experienced a rapid decline. After trading around 2.3
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  Speaker 1: million rials to the US dollar for two weeks, it
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  Speaker 1: collapsed this morning to 2.44 million rials per dollar. with
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  Speaker 1: one report suggesting further devaluation may be imminent. On US policy,
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State Marco Rubio commented on economic pressure against Iran.
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  Speaker 1: He stated, Every penny that they get into their hands
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  Speaker 1: is money that they use for purposes of these malign activities,
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  Speaker 1: emphasising that US economic pressure aims to choke off funding
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  Speaker 1: for Iran's global terrorism activities. Turning to Israel's economy, the
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  Speaker 1: price of gasoline is set to reach an all-time high
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  Speaker 1: of over US $ 10 per gallon. This surge, driven by
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  Speaker 1: rising global prices and a stronger dollar, is occurring even
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  Speaker 1: while a temporary fuel excise tax reduction remains in effect.
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  Speaker 1: In international trade, the United Kingdom has expanded its list
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  Speaker 1: of weapons British companies are barred from exporting to Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Building on a previous embargo, the British government has suspended
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  Speaker 1: or rejected over 80 export licences for goods potentially usable
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  Speaker 1: by Israeli forces in Gaza. Middle East Minister Stephen Doughty
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  Speaker 1: noted that the tightened policy, effective September 8, now considers
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  Speaker 1: Israel's presence in Judea and Samaria unlawful and restricts trade
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  Speaker 1: connected to Israeli communities beyond the Green Line. Domestically, Israel's
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  Speaker 1: health ministry has ordered operations at the private Medica hospital
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  Speaker 1: in Tel Aviv to cease. A surprise inspection uncovered serious
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  Speaker 1: deficiencies in operating room practices and patient safety, indicating systemic
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  Speaker 1: failure and posing an immediate danger. In other news, Jewish,
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  Speaker 1: black and gay journalist David Christopher Kaufman is launching the
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  Speaker 1: Octagon Project, an initiative to counter disinformation and encourage Jews
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  Speaker 1: and supporters of Israel to speak out more confidently, stating
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  Speaker 1: that October 8 radicalised him in response to campus and
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  Speaker 1: street activism. Finally, in regional diplomacy, the Saudi defence minister
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  Speaker 1: has invited the UAE vice president for an official visit.
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  Speaker 1: Arab sources indicate this high-level security and political meeting, may
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  Speaker 1: be linked to Prime Minister Netanyahu's prior visit to the UAE.
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  Speaker 1: For continuing coverage of antisemitism around the world, listen to
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  Speaker 1: Antisemitism Watch from Clockwork Media. Find it at clockworkmedia.org slash watch.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Noah Levi, thank you for listening to Israel Today
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