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Rubio Presses Lebanon on Hezbollah Explosives · 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 diplomatic developments in Lebanon. US Secretary of
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  Speaker 1: State Marco Rubio spoke with Lebanese President Joseph Ayran regarding
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  Speaker 1: the recent confiscation of hundreds of kilograms of explosives from Hezbollah.
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  Speaker 1: According to a State Department official, Rubio urged President Ayran
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  Speaker 1: to hold accountable those who ordered, financed, and directed the shipment.
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  Speaker 1: He also underscored that returning such explosives to Hezbollah should
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  Speaker 1: be out of the question. The US official added that
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  Speaker 1: Rubio encouraged direct military-to-military communication between Lebanese and Israeli forces
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  Speaker 1: for deconfliction. A Hezbollah lawmaker reportedly confirmed the explosives belonged
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  Speaker 1: to the group and were intended for use against Israel.
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  Speaker 1: In Yemen, the health ministry reported five people were killed
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  Speaker 1: and 16 others wounded in a Houthi strike on the
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  Speaker 1: presidential palace. On the Gaza front, the IDF and Shin
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  Speaker 1: Bet announced the killing of two terrorists in Khan Yunis,
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  Speaker 1: identifying them as involved in smuggling weapons and military assets
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  Speaker 1: into Gaza. This operation is described as a critical step
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  Speaker 1: in limiting Hamas's build-up. The IDF also reported dismantling an
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  Speaker 1: underground tunnel route approximately 1.5 kilometres long. Separately, the IDF
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  Speaker 1: concluded a four-month mission in northern Gaza, eliminating over 100 terrorists,
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  Speaker 1: and neutralising approximately eight kilometres of tunnels. Turning to domestic
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  Speaker 1: Israeli politics, Professor Yaron Zelika, chairman of the Reservists' Economic Party,
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  Speaker 1: presented his party's economic plan. Zelika criticised Prime Minister Benjamin
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  Speaker 1: Netanyahu's economic policy, promising to reduce the cost of living
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  Speaker 1: and vowing to take back the economy from monopolies. He
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  Speaker 1: challenged Finance Minister Beit Salel Smotrich and former Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: Naftali Bennett to a debate on economic policy. and stated
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  Speaker 1: he would bring down any government that obstructed his reforms.
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  Speaker 1: In a separate incident, right-wing protesters stormed a Tel Aviv
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  Speaker 1: building housing the Joint List Campaign Office and disrupted a
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  Speaker 1: film screening that encouraged conscientious objection to military service. Police
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  Speaker 1: arrived after the protesters had departed. For continuing coverage of
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  Speaker 1: Find it at clockworkmedia.org slash watch. I'm Noah Levi, thank
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