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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - September 20, 2026, 01 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 with developments on the northern border. Two IDF
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  Speaker 1: soldiers were lightly wounded Saturday morning when a Hezbollah roadside
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  Speaker 1: bomb struck an engineering vehicle inside Israel's security zone in
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  Speaker 1: southern Lebanon, according to the IDF. Both soldiers have been
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  Speaker 1: hospitalized in good condition. In response, The IDF carried out
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  Speaker 1: strikes against several Hezbollah sites, including surveillance posts and infrastructure
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  Speaker 1: used to prepare attacks. Shifting to political and international affairs,
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  Speaker 1: Qatar's International Media Office has issued a denial regarding reports
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  Speaker 1: that the nation provided funding to Hamas in Gaza. The
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  Speaker 1: office stated that allegations of this nature are being promoted
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  Speaker 1: by elements of Israel's far-right and political figures as an
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  Speaker 1: attempt to deflect from domestic political failures and scapegoat Qatar.
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  Speaker 1: This comes amidst reports, citing sources including Ronan Bergman of
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  Speaker 1: Yediyath Aranoth, that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was repeatedly warned
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  Speaker 1: in 2019 that Qatari funds were being used to finance
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  Speaker 1: Hamas's military branch. The Prime Minister's office responded to the report,
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  Speaker 1: calling it recycled lies and an attempt to sabotage Netanyahu's
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  Speaker 1: re-election campaign, while also stating the previous government was responsible
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  Speaker 1: for continuing Qatari funding. In related news concerning the conflict's narrative,
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  Speaker 1: an editorial in Jpost.com criticises Gazan photojournalist Motaz Azaza for
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  Speaker 1: his decision to withhold footage of Israeli hostages being beaten
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  Speaker 1: on October 7, 2023. The editorial argues this choice betrays
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  Speaker 1: the victims and journalism, questioning the ethical standards of news
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  Speaker 1: organisations that amplified his work and suggesting alternatives like blurring
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  Speaker 1: faces or seeking independent examination of the footage. From the
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  Speaker 1: United States, Jewish Congressman Brad Sherman is urging Israeli officials
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  Speaker 1: and voters to take note of recent US polling that
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  Speaker 1: indicates declining support for Israel. Sherman shared a CNN report
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  Speaker 1: and stressed that the findings should be translated into Hebrew
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  Speaker 1: and widely disseminated within Israel. Internationally, several hundred far-right protesters
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  Speaker 1: were dispersed by Dutch riot police in The Hague on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday after violence erupted. Authorities had banned a planned march
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  Speaker 1: against immigration and asylum policies, but demonstrators reportedly made Nazi salutes,
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  Speaker 1: chanted anti-Semitic slogans, and threw projectiles at officers. Police made
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  Speaker 1: several arrests. Domestically, there's a notable increase in commitment among
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  Speaker 1: Israeli youth, with demand for pre-military academies jumping approximately 50%
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  Speaker 1: since October 7, as thousands of Israeli teens volunteer for
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  Speaker 1: training and seek meaningful IDF service. On another domestic front,
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  Speaker 1: President Isaac Herzog has granted a pardon to Elor Azaria,
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  Speaker 1: a former IDF soldier convicted in 2016 of killing an
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  Speaker 1: incapacitated Palestinian attacker in Hebron. The pardon was granted despite
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  Speaker 1: the military's opposition, and Azaria had served nine months of
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  Speaker 1: an 18-month prison term. As the Jewish calendar turns towards
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  Speaker 1: its holiest day, over 150,000 people gathered at the Western
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  Speaker 1: Wall for the final Slitch's prayers before Yom Kippur. Information
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  Speaker 1: regarding the precise start and end times for the Yom
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  Speaker 1: Kippur fast across Israeli cities is also being published by
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  Speaker 1: news outlets. For continuing coverage of antisemitism around the world,
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  Speaker 1: slash watch. I'm Noah Levi, thank you for listening to
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