Latest / Israel Today: Ongoing War Report / Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - September 22, 2026, 06 PM Eastern
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- 0:08Speaker 1: You're listening to Israel Today ongoing war report. I'm Noah Levi.
- 0:12Speaker 1: Significant diplomatic developments are unfolding regarding Iran. US Special Envoys
- 0:17Speaker 1: Steve Witkoff and Jad Kushner met with mediators on Tuesday,
- 0:21Speaker 1: discussing a potential deal to end the Iran conflict. According
- 0:25Speaker 1: to Iranian state media, Tehran has submitted its terms for
- 0:28Speaker 1: reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which include the immediate lifting
- 0:31Speaker 1: of the naval blockade, the immediate release of frozen Iranian assets,
- 0:36Speaker 1: and an end to conflict across all resistance. Fronts. President
- 0:40Speaker 1: Donald Trump commented on the situation, stating that Washington and
- 0:44Speaker 1: Tehran were moving toward a settlement and describing the US
- 0:47Speaker 1: officials' meeting as very good. However, he also reiterated his
- 0:51Speaker 1: threat to annihilate Iran if a deal is not reached.
- 0:54Speaker 1: In the disputed territories, Israeli officials have sharply rebuked French
- 0:58Speaker 1: President Emmanuel Macron following his assertion at the United Nations
- 1:03Speaker 1: General Assembly that Hamas has never operated in the West Bank.
- 1:07Speaker 1: The Prime Minister's office called Macron's statement, grotesque absurdity, citing
- 1:12Speaker 1: the recent murder of Netanyahu Shukran, a French citizen and
- 1:15Speaker 1: father of six, who was killed in a Hamas terrorist
- 1:18Speaker 1: attack in Judea and Samaria just days prior. Finance Minister
- 1:22Speaker 1: Beit Salel Smotrich also stated, President Macron is lying. pointing
- 1:27Speaker 1: to Chakran's murder as one of hundreds of Hamas-led attacks
- 1:30Speaker 1: fuelling Arab terrorism in the region, emphasising that Hamas maintains
- 1:35Speaker 1: operative networks in Judea and Samaria. On the international legal front,
- 1:39Speaker 1: Colombia has officially withdrawn from South Africa's genocide case against
- 1:43Speaker 1: Israel at the International Court of Justice. The court announced
- 1:47Speaker 1: the withdrawal on Tuesday, confirming Colombia informed it of its
- 1:51Speaker 1: decision to retract its declaration of intervention filed earlier. Israel's
- 1:55Speaker 1: foreign minister Gideon Saar thanked the new Colombian president Abelardo
- 1:59Speaker 1: de la Espriella for the withdrawal from what he termed
- 2:02Speaker 1: South Africa's false and malicious lawsuit against Israel at the ICJ,
- 2:07Speaker 1: which was made during the anti-Semitic Petro era. The Israeli
- 2:11Speaker 1: ambassador to Colombia echoed these sentiments, calling it a brave
- 2:15Speaker 1: and responsible decision. In security news, the IDF reported that
- 2:20Speaker 1: suspicious movement was detected in the eastern border area of
- 2:23Speaker 1: the Jordan Valley sector. IDF, border police and district police
- 2:27Speaker 1: forces apprehended two suspects who were transferred for further handling. Separately,
- 2:32Speaker 1: Yasser Abbas, the son of the PA president, was reportedly
- 2:36Speaker 1: denied a flight from Dubai to New York City, despite
- 2:39Speaker 1: presenting a Canadian passport. He had intended to meet foreign
- 2:42Speaker 1: delegations on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. For
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- 2:56Speaker 1: I'm Noah Levi, thank you for listening to Israel Today
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