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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - September 27, 2026, 05 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 today with significant operational news from Gaza. Saha Saka,
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  Speaker 1: a terrorist documented transporting hostage Noah Agamani into Gaza on
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  Speaker 1: October 7th, has been killed in weekend strikes in Nusirat.
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  Speaker 1: Saka was implicated in the abduction of Agamani and Avinat
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  Speaker 1: and Or from the Nova Music Festival. and was also
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  Speaker 1: reported to have supplied weapons to Hamas. Turning to the
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  Speaker 1: northern front, the IDF confirmed striking multiple Hezbollah targets, including
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  Speaker 1: drone and missile launch sites. This action followed a drone
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  Speaker 1: attack launched by the terror group against IDF forces operating
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  Speaker 1: in the security zone. Amidst ongoing military operations, the landscape
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  Speaker 1: of drone warfare is rapidly evolving. Michael Kukieman, heading the
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  Speaker 1: Defence Division at Kukieman & Co., highlighted in a recent
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  Speaker 1: defence podcast that the threat has shifted from commercial quadcopters
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  Speaker 1: to advanced fibre-optic drones, rendering traditional jammers and cyber defences
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  Speaker 1: less effective. He described a billion-dollar race for a kinetic solution,
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  Speaker 1: noting the immense speed and pressure on defenders, who may
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  Speaker 1: have as little as 15 seconds from drone detection to interception.
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  Speaker 1: Kukieman also forecasts an automated frontline of drones and autonomous
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  Speaker 1: systems by 2030. In political and intelligence revelations, former Defense
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  Speaker 1: Minister Yoav Garland confirmed that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar had,
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  Speaker 1: through a Shin Bet channel, warned that he would shake
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  Speaker 1: the prisons. Garland also alleged that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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  Speaker 1: kept senior security officials, including himself, out of the loop
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  Speaker 1: regarding sensitive conversations with U.S. officials during the war, stating
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  Speaker 1: that U.S. officials sometimes contacted him to verify what had
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  Speaker 1: been said. Meanwhile, Finance Minister Beit Salel Smotrich has outlined
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  Speaker 1: a comprehensive security agenda, calling for Israel to launch a
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  Speaker 1: Gaza-style military campaign in Judea and Samaria and to dismantle
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  Speaker 1: the Palestinian Authority. Smotrich described the PA as a terrorist
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  Speaker 1: entity and urged the IDF to eliminate all terrorist infrastructure
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  Speaker 1: in the territory. Looking at domestic Israeli politics, Democrats Chairman
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  Speaker 1: Yair Golan stated his belief that an Arab party should
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  Speaker 1: be included in the next government. emphasising that this would
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  Speaker 1: reflect genuine change. This comes as other opposition leaders are
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  Speaker 1: meeting to coordinate ahead of upcoming elections. Separately, prominent Arab-Israeli
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  Speaker 1: activist Yosef Hardad is running for the Knesset on a
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  Speaker 1: right-wing party list, advocating for Arab-Israeli partnership, rather than co-existence. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: in other news, Israel's foreign ministry has condemned recent Russian
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  Speaker 1: drone attacks on Kiev that resulted in the death of
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  Speaker 1: a 14-year-old Israeli, Daniel Omansky. and injured 20 others. The
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  Speaker 1: ministry called the attacks horrific and a war crime. For
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  Speaker 1: I'm Noah Levi, thank you for listening to Israel Today
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