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Hamas Prepares Gaza Ground Assault; Polls Show Israeli Unease · 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: In Gaza, intelligence presented to senior Israeli leadership indicates Hamas
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  Speaker 1: perceives its survival as a victory, believing Israel's destruction is
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  Speaker 1: still possible. According to the information, the group views Israel's
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  Speaker 1: territorial control as temporary and is actively preparing for a
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  Speaker 1: potential IDF maneuver toward Gaza City. This preparation includes recruiting operatives,
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  Speaker 1: distributing weapons, digging defensive tunnels and manufacturing explosive devices. As
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  Speaker 1: Hamas leadership works to reinforce its defences, a senior security
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  Speaker 1: official assessed that a ground manoeuvre into Gaza City would
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  Speaker 1: ultimately be unavoidable. Adding context from before the October 7 attacks,
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  Speaker 1: Elkanah Federman, security chief for the Nova music festival, revealed
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  Speaker 1: he received a warning message about a week before the massacre.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking on the Mariv podcast, Federman shared a recording from
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  Speaker 1: a guard serving in the IDF's Gaza division, who hinted
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  Speaker 1: at potential trouble during the Sukkot holiday. Federman stressed that
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  Speaker 1: while the recording reflects concerns among soldiers on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: it does not prove specific knowledge of the large-scale attack. Domestically,
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  Speaker 1: recent polls highlight public sentiment and confidence levels. A Mariv
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  Speaker 1: poll conducted October 7th and 8th shows the coalition and
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  Speaker 1: opposition blocks tied at 52 seats each in hypothetical Knesset elections.
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  Speaker 1: The poll also indicates that Gadi Eizenkot is preferred over
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the next prime minister. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: a Hebrew University survey from October 5th to 6th found
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  Speaker 1: that only about one-third of Israelis want Prime Minister Netanyahu
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  Speaker 1: to remain in office after upcoming elections. Researchers pointed to
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  Speaker 1: a significant crisis of confidence in the state's future. with
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  Speaker 1: many Israelis expressing pessimism, questioning the achievement of total victory
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  Speaker 1: in the war, and believing the conflict has increased societal divisions.
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  Speaker 1: On the international front, the UK Green Party recently passed
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  Speaker 1: a resolution defining Zionism as a form of racism, a
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  Speaker 1: move its leader, Zach Polanski, declined to endorse. Separately, observers
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  Speaker 1: note a stark difference in social media sentiment today compared
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  Speaker 1: to previous years. observing that it has become significantly more
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  Speaker 1: acceptable to openly support Hamas's October 7 massacre, with users
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  Speaker 1: showing less concern about censorship and normalising such views. In
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  Speaker 1: more positive news, a rescue operation is underway in Nahal Og.
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  Speaker 1: Volunteers from the Israel Police's Mejilot Yam Har Melach rescue unit,
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  Speaker 1: along with medical teams, Tagach specialists, drones and an Air
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  Speaker 1: Force helicopter with Unit 669, are working to extract a
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  Speaker 1: hiker or cyclist who fell from a height. For continuing
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  Speaker 1: Noah Levi, thank you for listening to Israel Today Ongoing
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