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Iran Attack Warnings Follow West Bank Soldier Deaths · 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: Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidon cautioned on October 23, 2026,
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  Speaker 1: that any renewed attack on Iran would expand the regional conflict,
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  Speaker 1: emphasising diplomacy as the only solution. This warning comes as
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  Speaker 1: US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Nides indicated that an attack
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  Speaker 1: on Iran could occur this coming weekend. Nides also stressed
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  Speaker 1: that President Trump is open to a deal and has
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  Speaker 1: been engaged in negotiations for months. These statements follow a
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  Speaker 1: New York Times report indicating that US and Israeli militaries
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  Speaker 1: had drawn up specific plans for strikes against Iran. In
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  Speaker 1: security news closer to home, two Israeli soldiers were tragically
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  Speaker 1: killed in a shooting attack in the West Bank. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: an UNRWA teacher in Gaza spoke anonymously to the Jerusalem Post,
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  Speaker 1: reporting that she was threatened with scissors by a school administrator.
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  Speaker 1: after confronting anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas indoctrination. She expressed concerns about
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  Speaker 1: the educational environment and her safety, citing Hamas's influence within
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  Speaker 1: the agency. Adding to international developments, the Netherlands has begun
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  Speaker 1: enforcing a decree making it a criminal offence to buy
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  Speaker 1: or sell Israeli goods produced beyond the 1967 armistice line,
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  Speaker 1: a policy that contrasts with its inaction on goods from
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  Speaker 1: other disputed territories. On regional security, satellite imagery analysed between
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  Speaker 1: April 2025 and September 2026, suggests Saudi Arabia is expanding
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  Speaker 1: its ballistic missile factory at the al-Juwidimi complex, likely to
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  Speaker 1: produce larger solid-fuel missiles capable of longer ranges, potentially fuelling
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  Speaker 1: a regional missile race. Domestically, Israel's Attorney General reports over 67,000
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  Speaker 1: Haredi men are classified as draft dodgers, a situation described
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  Speaker 1: as a national crisis that divides the nation. despite a
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  Speaker 1: significant increase in ultra-Orthodox enlistment last year. Prime Minister Benjamin
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  Speaker 1: Netanyahu also recently presented his view of Israel's national security doctrine,
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  Speaker 1: emphasising a shift towards prevention and offence. In uplifting news,
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  Speaker 1: Canadian-Israeli Benjamin Hassan has returned to Israel after more than
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  Speaker 1: a decade of imprisonment in Iraq, where he faced a
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  Speaker 1: death sentence. He was released just over a month ago.
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  Speaker 1: The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos Ayayay, condemned a
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  Speaker 1: terrorist attack at a church in Jordan, calling it a
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  Speaker 1: despicable and cowardly act. Additionally, John Hajar told the Jerusalem
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  Speaker 1: Post that the Lebanese people desire full diplomatic ties with Israel,
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  Speaker 1: but are held captive by Hezbollah and an Iran-backed government.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Noah Levi, thank you for listening to Israel Today
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