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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - September 17, 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: The United States is investigating whether Iran was behind cyberattacks
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  Speaker 1: on two energy tankers bound for American ports that were
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  Speaker 1: struck while transiting the Strait of Gibraltar in August. The
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal, citing US officials, reported that investigators examined
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  Speaker 1: the vessel's IT systems after finding indications of compromise. Ria Adam.
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  Speaker 1: Amy Grable of the Coast Guard Cyber Command highlighted the
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  Speaker 1: risks of interconnected ship systems being breached. While Iran's semi-official
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  Speaker 1: mayor news reportedly claimed hackers infiltrated one vessel's engine systems,
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  Speaker 1: no organisation claimed responsibility for the attacks, and the US
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  Speaker 1: has not publicly attributed them to Iran. Separately, Iran's Revolutionary
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  Speaker 1: Guards Navy claimed it struck a Togo-flagged oil tanker in
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  Speaker 1: the Strait of Hormuz. In the West Bank, the NGO
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  Speaker 1: Beats Elam has released a report titled, the Elimination Project,
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  Speaker 1: accusing Israel of systematically dismantling Palestinian collective life. B'Tselem claims
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  Speaker 1: this constitutes a comprehensive mechanism of elimination, affecting physical, cultural
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  Speaker 1: and social aspects, and attributes accusations such as genocide, ethnic cleansing,
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  Speaker 1: and apartheid to Israel's actions. Israel and the IDF have
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  Speaker 1: vehemently rejected the vast majority of these claims as groundless
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  Speaker 1: or sensationalised. The IDF stated that any claim of Israel
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  Speaker 1: advancing a course of action aimed at eliminating Palestinians as
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  Speaker 1: a people is false, baseless and disconnected from reality. Affirming
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  Speaker 1: its mission in Judea and Samaria is to thwart terrorism
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  Speaker 1: and protect residents. At the United Nations, the General Assembly
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  Speaker 1: voted 152-3 to allow Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and other
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  Speaker 1: senior officials to participate in UN meetings via video for
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  Speaker 1: the next year. This decision comes after the United States
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  Speaker 1: again denied visas to these Palestinian officials. Deputy US Ambassador
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  Speaker 1: to the UN Tammy Bruce stated that the Palestinian Authority
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  Speaker 1: must stop subsidising terror and using diplomatic theatre to be
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  Speaker 1: treated as a partner. Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny
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  Speaker 1: Danon also linked Abbas' attendance to his policy of making
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  Speaker 1: payments to terrorists, suggesting the responsibility for changing this policy
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  Speaker 1: lies with Abbas. Palestinian leaders have rejected and condemned the
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  Speaker 1: US visa actions. And in Israeli domestic politics, a new
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  Speaker 1: poll from the Times of Israel indicates Netanyahu's bloc has
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  Speaker 1: fallen to 51 seats, with Winter's party failing to reach
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  Speaker 1: the Knesset threshold. The poll also suggests that a plurality
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  Speaker 1: of respondents who back the Prime Minister would favour a
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  Speaker 1: unity government if the October 27 vote ends in a stalemate.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Noah Levi, thank you for listening to Israel Today
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