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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - September 22, 2026, 12 PM 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: President Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly that he
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  Speaker 1: faces a critical decision regarding Iran to pursue a deal
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  Speaker 1: after the upcoming US midterm elections or to annihilate the
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  Speaker 1: Islamic Republic. He emphatically stated that Tehran can never have
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  Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon. This stance was echoed by Senator Marco Rubio,
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  Speaker 1: who asserted that Iran must never be allowed to have
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  Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon, warning that a nuclear Iran would be
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  Speaker 1: a global disaster. Rubio also mentioned ongoing US sanctions and
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  Speaker 1: the administration's openness to diplomacy. In a separate development related
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  Speaker 1: to US policy, additional US aerial refuelling aircraft are en
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  Speaker 1: route to Israel as part of regional air operations amid
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  Speaker 1: heightened security tensions. President Trump also indicated he expects a
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  Speaker 1: US-Iran deal shortly after the November 3 mid-term elections and,
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  Speaker 1: according to Anit, threatened Iran with hell at the UN.
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  Speaker 1: At the United Nations, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned Hamas's
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  Speaker 1: October 7 attack but immediately followed by denouncing Israel's reaction
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  Speaker 1: as unlike anything I have ever seen before, citing the
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  Speaker 1: scale of death and destruction in Gaza and referencing International
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  Speaker 1: Court of Justice provisional measures. He also warned that violence,
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  Speaker 1: displacement and settlement expansion by Israel in the occupied West
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  Speaker 1: Bank are trampling the path to peace. Jordan's King Abdullah
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  Speaker 1: Ai similarly devoted his UN address to condemning Israel's actions
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  Speaker 1: in Gaza, the West Bank and Syria, accusing Israel of
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  Speaker 1: attempting to erase Palestinian life, force displacement and committing war crimes.
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  Speaker 1: In a separate move within Israel, Minister Ben Jeeva announced
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  Speaker 1: his intention to lead a strategic programme encouraging voluntary emigration
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  Speaker 1: from both Gaza and Judea and Samaria. Cooperation between the US,
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  Speaker 1: Israel and regional partners has led to a robust regional
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  Speaker 1: air defence shield. A lead Inspector General report to the
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  Speaker 1: United States Congress detailed that this network, supported by embedded
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  Speaker 1: US forces, intercepted over 7,500 threats, including more than 6,000
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  Speaker 1: one-way unmanned aerial systems, and over 1,500 ballistic missiles targeting
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  Speaker 1: US and partner forces. The report highlighted substantial joint US-Israel
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  Speaker 1: missile defence operations. In a separate report, the UN's independent
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  Speaker 1: international fact-finding mission on Iran concluded that Iran committed gross
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  Speaker 1: human rights violations, potentially crimes against humanity, in its crackdown
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  Speaker 1: on protests in January, noting a marked escalation in lethal force.
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  Speaker 1: In antisemitism news, Two suspects were arrested in Manchester for
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  Speaker 1: allegedly planning to attack Jewish institutions on Yom Kippur, a
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  Speaker 1: year after the city experienced a deadly attack. In Israel,
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  Speaker 1: a 19-year-old resident faces dozens of terrorism-related speech offences for
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  Speaker 1: numerous TikTok reposts allegedly praising Hamas and glorifying the October
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  Speaker 1: 7 massacre, including a direct call for a terrorist act.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors are seeking to detain him until trial. New York
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  Speaker 1: City Mayor Zoran Mamdani reiterated accusations against Israeli Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: Benjamin Netanyahu, calling him a war criminal and architect of
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  Speaker 1: a horrific genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Meanwhile, Ukraine's Center
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  Speaker 1: for Countering Disinformation reported that Russia-controlled TikTok networks spread AI-generated
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  Speaker 1: videos featuring fake pilgrims claiming payments from the Ukrainian government
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  Speaker 1: to settle in Yumen, which they described as a disinformation campaign.
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  Speaker 1: aimed at provoking anti-Semitic sentiments. In Israeli domestic news, Yitzhak
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  Speaker 1: Wassiloff has been nominated for the position of Minister of
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  Speaker 1: National Security. Finally, concerns are rising in Israel regarding Turkish
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  Speaker 1: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan potentially using his UN General Assembly
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  Speaker 1: visit to promote Foreign Minister Hakan Fidon as a candidate
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  Speaker 1: for UN Secretary General, given Fidon's critical stance on the
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  Speaker 1: Israel-Hamas war. For continuing coverage of anti-Semitism around the world,
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