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Houthi Airport Attacks Kill Dozens in Saudi Arabia · 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 regional developments. Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels
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  Speaker 1: have intensified their attacks on Saudi Arabia, according to jpost.com.
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  Speaker 1: A deadly strike on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport on
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  Speaker 1: October 10 killed 12 people and wounded over 300. Another
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  Speaker 1: attack on Abha International Airport on October 6 resulted in
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  Speaker 1: two fatalities. The Houthis have reiterated warnings to airlines and
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  Speaker 1: travellers to avoid Saudi airports, stating that Saudi Arabia bears
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  Speaker 1: responsibility for failed interceptions. Saudi Arabia has vowed a firm response,
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  Speaker 1: with the Saudi-led coalition spokesman quoted by Arab News calling
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  Speaker 1: the Riyadh airport attack a terrorist act and a full-fledged
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  Speaker 1: war crime. J Post reports these attacks are part of
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  Speaker 1: a growing campaign targeting Saudi civilian infrastructure, aimed at disrupting
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  Speaker 1: civilian life and forcing airport closures. The attacks have led
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  Speaker 1: to flight cancellations and suspensions of services by international airlines.
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  Speaker 1: Turning to Israel's northern border, J Post reports that IDF
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  Speaker 1: soldiers conducted searches on Sunday morning after an unidentified aerial
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  Speaker 1: object was detected entering Israeli territory near the Lebanese border
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday night. Hostile aircraft infiltration alerts were activated in
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  Speaker 1: the Western Galilee. Initial concerns focused on the object being
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  Speaker 1: a drone or unmanned aerial vehicle, though J-Post notes the
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  Speaker 1: possibility of a powered paraglider could not be ruled out.
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  Speaker 1: The IDF is continuing its investigation. Mariv News Flash reports
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  Speaker 1: that fighter jets were scrambled and settlements were closed, with
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  Speaker 1: one report citing an IDF message that there are factors
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  Speaker 1: that have an interest at the moment in heating up
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  Speaker 1: the sector. In domestic Israeli politics, J-Post reports that pre-election
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  Speaker 1: polls continue to show an inconclusive race less than two
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  Speaker 1: weeks before the elections. Surveys from Mariv, Channel 13 and
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  Speaker 1: KAN News indicate that neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc
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  Speaker 1: nor the opposition is projected to secure the 61 seats
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  Speaker 1: needed for a Knesset majority. Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar Party is
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  Speaker 1: leading some of these polls. Meanwhile, the legal proceedings against
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister Netanyahu are ongoing. J-POST reports that former Attorney
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  Speaker 1: General Avichai Mandelblit began his testimony on Sunday as a
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  Speaker 1: defence witness in Netanyahu's criminal trial. His testimony is expected
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  Speaker 1: to address whether police investigators stayed within the scope of
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  Speaker 1: the approvals he previously granted for investigations into cases 1,000, 2,000
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  Speaker 1: and 4,000. Separately, according to J-POST, National Security Minister Itamar
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  Speaker 1: Ben-Givia released footage showing him confronting terrorists who he claims
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  Speaker 1: planned his assassination. Ben-Givir threatened one inmate with execution and
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  Speaker 1: vowed to continue tightening prison conditions for security prisoners, an
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  Speaker 1: action taken despite an attorney general's instruction against using prison
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  Speaker 1: visits for election propaganda. In security news from Judea and Samaria,
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  Speaker 1: Mariv reports that a young man from Al-Izariya was arrested
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  Speaker 1: on suspicion of intending to carry out an attack in
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  Speaker 1: the Mayil-Adjumim area. Police found him masked with a knife
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  Speaker 1: and materials believed to be intended for an attack. Globally,
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  Speaker 1: World Israel News reports an incident in California that has
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  Speaker 1: been labelled as anti-Semitism. A woman was filmed shouting, free Palestine,
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  Speaker 1: after overhearing a couple speaking Hebrew, which reportedly terrified their
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  Speaker 1: young child. On a more positive note, J-Post reports that
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  Speaker 1: President Isaac Herzog has invited Captain Smit Machar, the fly-Jubai
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  Speaker 1: pilot who heroically handled a hijacking attempt, to Jerusalem. The
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  Speaker 1: president expressed gratitude for his judgment and bravery in rescuing passengers,
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  Speaker 1: including Israelis on board. And finally, J-Post reports that an
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  Speaker 1: Israeli tourist, Ami Yogov, who had been missing on Mount
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  Speaker 1: Olympus in Greece, was found. His body was located by
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  Speaker 1: an Israeli rescue team after an extensive search in difficult terrain.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Noah Levi, thank you for joining us on Israel
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