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UAE Pilot's Ben Gurion Airport Attack Plot Thwarted · 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: Turning now to other news, the United Arab Emirates Attorney
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  Speaker 1: General announced that an Omani fly-Jubai copilot, identified as Hammam al-Hammami,
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  Speaker 1: had planned a suicide attack on September 30. According to
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  Speaker 1: the UAE State News Agency, Hammami intended to hijack a
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  Speaker 1: flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, and crash it into
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  Speaker 1: a passenger terminal at Ben Gurion Airport, aiming for the
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  Speaker 1: highest possible casualties. The plot was reportedly inspired by the
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  Speaker 1: September 11 attacks and was thwarted by his fellow pilot.
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  Speaker 1: Investigations are ongoing into potential accomplices and security failures. In
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  Speaker 1: international developments, the US administration imposed sanctions on the International
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  Speaker 1: Criminal Court on Friday, October 9. Secretary of State Marco
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  Speaker 1: Rubio stated that the move aims to ban transactions, and
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  Speaker 1: cripple the court's operations, asserting the US will not allow
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  Speaker 1: the ICC to prosecute Americans. This action comes in response
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  Speaker 1: to the ICC's previous issuance of arrest warrants for Israeli officials,
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  Speaker 1: including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The ICC's deputy prosecutor condemned
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  Speaker 1: the sanctions, stating they would not halt the tribunal's work.
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  Speaker 1: This development occurred on the same day Navi Pillay, who
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  Speaker 1: chaired a UN commission accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza,
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  Speaker 1: was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. a decision likely to
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  Speaker 1: intensify debate over international bodies' treatment of Israel. Turning to Iran,
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  Speaker 1: Yair Golan, leader of the Democrats' party, commented on the
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  Speaker 1: assassination of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which
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  Speaker 1: occurred on February 28, 2026, during Israel's Operation Roaring Lion.
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  Speaker 1: Golan described the assassination as a mistake in a Yediot
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  Speaker 1: Aronot and I-24 News interview. He argued that the act
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  Speaker 1: did not serve Israel's interests, as it removed veteran leadership
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  Speaker 1: and empowered more extreme factions. Golan also questioned Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: Benjamin Netanyahu's strategy, suggesting it relied on illusions about toppling
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  Speaker 1: the regime without a clear diplomatic approach. Khamenei was succeeded
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  Speaker 1: by his son, Majdaba Khamenei. In Gaza, the IDF reported
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday that targeted strikes killed three Palestinian Islamic Jihad
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  Speaker 1: and Hamas terrorists, including commanders who were reportedly planning attacks
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  Speaker 1: against IDF soldiers. and working to restore the terror organisation's
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  Speaker 1: grip on the strip. The IDF also announced the killing
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  Speaker 1: of Mohamed Moussa Nima Yazji, a Hamas Shati battalion commander
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  Speaker 1: who had held several former hostages. Additionally, the military stated
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  Speaker 1: that four weapons storage facilities used by PIJ and Hamas
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  Speaker 1: were destroyed in targeted strikes across Gaza. Regarding domestic politics,
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  Speaker 1: Former senior Shin Bet official Ilan Segev claimed in a
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  Speaker 1: Cannes news interview that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the
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  Speaker 1: exact scenario of the October 7 attack during a State
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  Speaker 1: Control Committee meeting in April 2017, approximately six years before
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  Speaker 1: the event. Segev stated that a video of this meeting
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  Speaker 1: is publicly available. He also accused the Prime Minister of
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  Speaker 1: rejecting Shin Bet recommendations over the years to assassinate senior
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  Speaker 1: Hamas officials, citing the case of Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari.
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  Speaker 1: In the West Bank, Israeli settlers reportedly planted dozens of
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  Speaker 1: Israeli flags at the entrance of a Palestinian cafe in
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  Speaker 1: the village of Luban al-Shakir. Mu'ayyad Hussain, the cafe's owner,
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  Speaker 1: described the act as a blatant act of intimidation that
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  Speaker 1: obscured his shop's view. Hussain also stated that one of
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  Speaker 1: the settlers threatened to shut down his shop. The IDF
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  Speaker 1: did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: the opening of Cafe Basimta on Shabbat operated by an
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  Speaker 1: Israeli associated with Jews for Jesus, has ignited protests over
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  Speaker 1: Shabbat desecration by ultra-Orthodox groups. This has also led to
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  Speaker 1: counter-protests by secular Israelis who are raising concerns about religious coercion.
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  Speaker 1: The situation taps into deeper Israeli societal debates about who
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  Speaker 1: determines public observance. In economic news from Bangkok, Thai authorities
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  Speaker 1: raided several Jewish institutions, including the Harbod Bangkok Foundation, a
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  Speaker 1: Harbod kindergarten and the Jewish Association of Thailand. The raids
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  Speaker 1: are part of an investigation into a network of businesses
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  Speaker 1: and assets linked to Israeli nationals suspected of operating in
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  Speaker 1: violation of Thai foreign ownership laws. A Harbod emissary stated
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  Speaker 1: that the institutions cooperated fully with investigators and denied any wrongdoing.
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