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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - September 9, 2026, 07 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: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Mount Hermon with defence officials,
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  Speaker 1: receiving an operational briefing. He stated that Israel now holds
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  Speaker 1: absolute control from Mount Hermon to the Mediterranean. Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: Netanyahu vowed not to allow a terrorist army to establish
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  Speaker 1: itself on Israel's border. He emphasised that the main task
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  Speaker 1: ahead is defeating Iran's regime, asserting that Israel is very
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  Speaker 1: close to achieving this goal and that the Iranian-led axis
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  Speaker 1: will ultimately fall. In Washington, US President Donald Trump commented
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  Speaker 1: on the conflict with Iran. Speaking to reporters, he predicted
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  Speaker 1: that the war with Iran would end immediately after the
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  Speaker 1: US midterm elections. President Trump suggested Tehran is attempting to
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  Speaker 1: influence the vote to face a weaker Congress. and reiterated
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  Speaker 1: his stance that Iran seeks a nuclear weapon, warning of
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  Speaker 1: global trouble if it obtains one. He also predicted oil
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  Speaker 1: prices would fall significantly post-election. President Trump confirmed US responsibility
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  Speaker 1: for recent attacks on Iranian assets, stating, We've knocked out
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  Speaker 1: nine of their ships, and indicated more actions could follow.
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  Speaker 1: A controversy continues regarding reports of a warning from the
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  Speaker 1: United Arab Emirates to Israel before the October 7 attack.
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  Speaker 1: Ron Dermer, a close confidant of Prime Minister Netanyahu, firmly
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  Speaker 1: denied reports that the Prime Minister had spoken with UAE
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  Speaker 1: President Mohammed bin Zayed before October 7, dismissing such claims
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  Speaker 1: as fiction. Derma stated that he would have known about
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  Speaker 1: such a conversation, given his role in expanding the Abraham Accords. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister Netanyahu has instructed his lawyers to initiate a
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  Speaker 1: libel lawsuit against the newspaper Haaretz and journalist Shlomi Eldar
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  Speaker 1: over a report claiming the UAE had warned him about
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  Speaker 1: the Hamas attack. the Prime Minister's office stated the story
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  Speaker 1: was completely fabricated and denied any communication between Netanyahu and
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  Speaker 1: the UAE from early September 2023 until the October 7 attack. Separately,
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  Speaker 1: sources cited by the Jerusalem Post suggest that US officials
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  Speaker 1: in the Biden administration were allegedly unaware of a specific
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  Speaker 1: warning from the UAE that Hamas was preparing a major
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  Speaker 1: attack against Israel before October 7 and were also not
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  Speaker 1: informed of such a warning afterward. British Foreign Secretary Ed
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  Speaker 1: Miliband expressed disappointment with Israel's response to the UK's decision
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  Speaker 1: to ban trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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  Speaker 1: Israel's reaction included closing the British consulate in East Jerusalem
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  Speaker 1: and banning 11 lawmakers from the country. Miliband told Sky
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  Speaker 1: News he was proud of what we did yesterday and
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  Speaker 1: it was the right thing to do, despite regretting Israel's announcement.
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  Speaker 1: On a demographic note, new figures from Israel's Central Bureau
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  Speaker 1: of Statistics show the nation's population has surpassed 10.3 million,
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  Speaker 1: an increase of about 124,000 over the past year, representing 1.2%
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  Speaker 1: annual growth. I'm Noah Levi, thank you for listening to
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  Speaker 1: Israel Today ongoing war report. Stay safe and informed. Follow
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