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Red Sea Rumble: Yemen Offensive Rocks Region · 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 Yemen, where pro-government forces
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  Speaker 1: backed by Saudi Arabia have launched a major offensive against
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  Speaker 1: the Iran-backed Houthi movement. These forces claim to have captured
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sea city of Mocha and secured the strategically
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  Speaker 1: vital Bab al-Mandab Strait. However, conflicting reports have emerged, with
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  Speaker 1: some Yemeni government and military sources later telling news agencies
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  Speaker 1: that forces had only reached the city's outskirts. The Houthis
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  Speaker 1: have denied losing control of Bab al-Mandab and Mokka, stating
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  Speaker 1: instead that they struck Riyadh's airport and other locations in
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, in retaliation for the air strikes. Saudi Arabia
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  Speaker 1: condemned these attacks and reiterated calls for UN Security Council
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  Speaker 1: support for Yemen's internationally recognised government. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
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  Speaker 1: also condemned, the continued Houthi cross-border attacks, and expressed deep
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  Speaker 1: concern over the sharp escalation in fighting. Meanwhile, Turkey and Pakistan,
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  Speaker 1: allies of Saudi Arabia, have agreed to rapidly deploy military
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  Speaker 1: forces to Saudi Arabia. In parallel, Saudi airstrikes in Yemen
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  Speaker 1: reportedly killed a schoolgirl and a woman in Sana'a, according
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  Speaker 1: to Houthi-run Al-Masra TV, with a Houthi spokesman accusing Saudi
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  Speaker 1: Arabia of committing massacres. Turning to Iran, State media images
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  Speaker 1: reveal Iranian women undergoing training with advanced weaponry, including surface-to-air
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  Speaker 1: missiles and drones, alongside firearms and urban warfare tactics. This
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  Speaker 1: training is part of the regime's self-sacrifice or national resistance campaign.
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  Speaker 1: Sassan Zareh, a spokesperson for the Jan Fodder movement, told
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  Speaker 1: the Iranian student news agency that the concept of self-sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: is integral to the Iranian identity. claiming a large number
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  Speaker 1: of international messages express a readiness to fight alongside Iranians
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  Speaker 1: against America and the Zionist regime. The training course reportedly
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  Speaker 1: includes self-defence, first aid, crisis management, urban warfare and drone operation.
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  Speaker 1: Despite women being exempt from compulsory military service, they can
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  Speaker 1: volunteer and Iran's constitution obliges the Basij Mostazafan Unit to
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  Speaker 1: provide optional military training facilities for female citizens. Registration for these,
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  Speaker 1: National Resistance, battalions reportedly saw over 500,000 women sign up
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  Speaker 1: within 100 minutes for the first 1,000 units. In Lebanon,
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  Speaker 1: the Lebanese army cordoned off and dealt with a Hezbollah
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  Speaker 1: quadcopter drone that crashed near the main road in Shlifa,
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  Speaker 1: west of Baalbek, during what was described as training activity.
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  Speaker 1: Military personnel examined the aircraft, and the army subsequently neutralised it.
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  Speaker 1: Shifting to security concerns in the West Bank and Gaza,
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Hamas, weakened after recent conflict,
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  Speaker 1: may attempt attacks to influence the upcoming October 27 Knesset election,
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  Speaker 1: vowing overwhelming force in response. He stated that Israel has
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  Speaker 1: killed approximately 4,000 of the 6,000 terrorists who participated in
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  Speaker 1: the October 7 invasion. Meanwhile, Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened
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  Speaker 1: to launch an all-out campaign against the Palestinian Authority, based
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  Speaker 1: on a scenario of PA security forces turning their weapons
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  Speaker 1: against Israel. This is despite IDF sources indicating there is
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  Speaker 1: no concrete intelligence suggesting such a move is being planned.
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  Speaker 1: Katz presented the scenario during a security briefing, referencing lessons
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  Speaker 1: from October 7 and the IDF's preparation for extreme scenarios
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  Speaker 1: in Judea and Samaria. However, sources from the Shin bet
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  Speaker 1: told the Jerusalem Post that they are unaware of any
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  Speaker 1: such concrete threat from the PA. In Europe, An incident
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  Speaker 1: at the European Parliament has drawn strong condemnation. French member
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  Speaker 1: of the European Parliament, Rima Hassan removed Israeli flags from
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  Speaker 1: an exhibition memorialising the victims of the October 7 attack,
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  Speaker 1: protesting what her office called Israel's ongoing genocide. European Parliament
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  Speaker 1: President Roberta Metsola stated the incident is being treated very seriously.
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  Speaker 1: Foreign Minister Gideon Saar wrote on X that Hassan's actions
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  Speaker 1: were shameful and outrageous. adding that her desecration of the
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  Speaker 1: memorial display and throwing Israeli flags on the floor reflects
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  Speaker 1: disregard for the institution she serves. In New York City,
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  Speaker 1: Israel's Consul General Ofia Akounis invited Mayor Zoran Mamdani to
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  Speaker 1: view a 47-minute film documenting the October 7 massacre. Akounis
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  Speaker 1: framed the invitation as an opportunity for the mayor to
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  Speaker 1: see what the people he supports actually did, and urged
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  Speaker 1: him to stop his relentless incitement, hatred and blood libels
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  Speaker 1: against the state of Israel. linking Mamdani's rhetoric to the
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  Speaker 1: rise of antisemitism in the city. Domestically, a report indicates
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  Speaker 1: that the Transportation Ministry has failed to allocate or use
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  Speaker 1: resources for securing foreign flights, despite agreeing to take responsibility
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  Speaker 1: last year. Army Radio reported that the ministry rejected or
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  Speaker 1: stalled attempts by the National Security Council, Shin Bet, and
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  Speaker 1: Finance Ministry to assist, even rejecting a proposal for a
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  Speaker 1: Shin Bet official to serve as the ministry's head intelligence officer.
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  Speaker 1: This inaction occurred despite receiving 10 million Israeli shekels and
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  Speaker 1: 10 new positions for the task, none of which have
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  Speaker 1: been filled. The report follows a recent FlyJuby attempted hijacking incident.
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  Speaker 1: In economic news, the government is expected to approve an
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  Speaker 1: assistance mechanism of up to 9 million Israeli shekels for
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  Speaker 1: Israeli airlines operating flights from Dubai to Israel. This proposal
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  Speaker 1: comes after FlyJuby suspended its flights, leaving thousands of Israelis stranded.
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  Speaker 1: The mechanism aims to help cover costs associated with flying
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  Speaker 1: empty outbound aircraft from Israel to Dubai and funding the
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  Speaker 1: transfer of passengers' baggage on separate cargo flights, due to
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  Speaker 1: current security restrictions preventing baggage on passenger returns. Finally, Brazil's
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  Speaker 1: presidential election is heading to a run-off on October 25,
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  Speaker 1: following a significant rightward political shift across Latin America. This
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  Speaker 1: trend could lead to strengthened ties with Israel, as Flavio Bolsonaro,
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  Speaker 1: son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, had previously promised to
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  Speaker 1: move Brazil's embassy to Jerusalem within his first six months
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  Speaker 1: if elected. This shift is part of a broader pattern
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  Speaker 1: in the region, fostering partnerships like the Isaac Accords, which
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  Speaker 1: aim to strengthen cooperation between Israel and like-minded nations in
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  Speaker 1: defence of freedom and democracy, and in the fight against
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  Speaker 1: terrorism and antisemitism. For continuing coverage of antisemitism around the world,
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  Speaker 1: listen to Antisemitism Watch from Clockwork Media. Find it at clockwickmedia.org
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  Speaker 1: slash watch. I'm Noah Levi, thank you for listening to
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