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West Bank: Diplomats Claim Settler Attacks, Netanyahu Responds · 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 today with serious allegations emerging from the West
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  Speaker 1: Bank concerning incidents during the annual olive harvest. A group
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  Speaker 1: of European diplomats have claimed they were attacked by Israeli settlers.
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded by urging caution, stating that
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  Speaker 1: serious accusations require serious evidence, and suggested the reports come
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  Speaker 1: amid a coordinated campaign to smear Israel. He emphasised the
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  Speaker 1: need for verifiable evidence and cautioned against premature conclusions. However,
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  Speaker 1: former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot strongly condemned the actions,
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  Speaker 1: labelling the attackers Jewish terrorists and blaming the government for
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  Speaker 1: rising violence. Foreign Minister Gideon Saar also condemned the acts
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  Speaker 1: and confirmed contact with the affected ambassadors, while the Belgian
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  Speaker 1: foreign minister called for sanctions against those responsible. Adding to
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  Speaker 1: the concerning reports, Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine sustained serious injuries,
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  Speaker 1: including fractured vertebrae, after allegedly being attacked by Jewish rioters
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  Speaker 1: during the same olive harvest in the Binyamin region. Levine,
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  Speaker 1: who had previously covered the war in Ukraine, recounted a
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  Speaker 1: prolonged assault and theft of her equipment, alleging that IDF
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  Speaker 1: soldiers witnessed the incident but did not intervene. She underwent
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  Speaker 1: surgery for her injuries. Turning to regional tensions, the United
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  Speaker 1: States is intensifying its economic pressure campaign against Iran. US
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  Speaker 1: Central Command Commander Admiral Brad Cooper stated that American forces
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  Speaker 1: have prevented Iran from exporting at least $ 25 billion worth
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  Speaker 1: of crude oil and frozen $ 350 million in digital assets.
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  Speaker 1: Cooper noted this has led to significant financial strain on
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  Speaker 1: Iran's military and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. with reports
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  Speaker 1: of militia groups withholding payments to their soldiers. Despite these
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  Speaker 1: efforts and ongoing IRGC attacks on commercial vessels, Admiral Cooper
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  Speaker 1: affirmed that the Strait of Hormuz remains open for transit. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the conflict in Yemen continues, with recent Saudi airstrikes targeting
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  Speaker 1: Houthi facilities. The Iran-backed Houthis have made advances towards the
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  Speaker 1: strategically vital Bab el-Mandeb Strait, an important route for global
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  Speaker 1: oil trade, and are reportedly surrounding the city of Taiz,
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  Speaker 1: raising fears of a potential humanitarian disaster. In Gaza, the
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  Speaker 1: IDF reported strikes that killed four Hamas terrorists, including one
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  Speaker 1: who had infiltrated Israel on October 7, and others involved
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  Speaker 1: in advancing attacks. Separately, the IDF has notified residents of
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  Speaker 1: Gaza border communities, including Eshkol, Esdot Negev, Shahanegev and Sderot,
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  Speaker 1: of expected explosions tonight due to operational activities in the
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  Speaker 1: Gaza Strip. On the front of combating anti-Israel narratives, Veteran
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  Speaker 1: analyst Gil Hoffman argues in his new book, The Blood
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  Speaker 1: Libel Machine, that Israel must treat the media war with
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  Speaker 1: the same seriousness as military threats like Iran's nuclear program.
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  Speaker 1: Hoffman contends that the surge in global anti-Semitism and anti-Israel
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  Speaker 1: narratives is not spontaneous, but the result of a decades-long
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  Speaker 1: premeditated information campaign. Adding to personal accounts, historian Harriet Jackson
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  Speaker 1: made a leer to Israel after experiencing what she described
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  Speaker 1: as rising anti-Semitism, and anti-Zionist sentiment at Columbia University following
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  Speaker 1: the October 7th attacks, feeling that an extremist ideology had
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  Speaker 1: infiltrated educational institutions. In Israeli domestic affairs, a senior public
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  Speaker 1: service official is reportedly implicated in a serious security affair,
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  Speaker 1: details of which are currently under a publication ban. On
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  Speaker 1: the economic front, Hebrew University announced a record $ 250 million
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  Speaker 1: donation from hedge fund manager John Paulson. The gift will
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  Speaker 1: fund engineering and biomedical research expansion and lead to the
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  Speaker 1: renaming of the university's M.T. Scopus Campus. For continuing coverage
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  Speaker 1: of antisemitism around the world, listen to Antisemitism Watch from
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  Speaker 1: Clockwork Media. Find it at clockworkmedia.org slash watch. I'm Noah Levi,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for listening to Israel Today Ongoing War Report.
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