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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - September 22, 2026, 06 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 significant statements regarding Gaza. Defence Minister Israel
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  Speaker 1: Katz declared on Tuesday that any attempt to kidnap another
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  Speaker 1: Israeli would result in the immediate evacuation and total destruction
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  Speaker 1: of Gaza City. Katz framed this warning as a response
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  Speaker 1: to escalating threats from Iran, Turkey and Hamas. Meanwhile in
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  Speaker 1: Judea and Samaria, a terror attack in Neve Tizof saw
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  Speaker 1: a father, Netanel C.H. Crown, tragically lose his life while
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  Speaker 1: saving his 16-year-old son, Yoav, from an assailant. Yoav recounted
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  Speaker 1: how his father's warning allowed him to escape. In a
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  Speaker 1: separate development, over 170,000 Kaptagan tablets and 17,000 Tramadol tablets,
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  Speaker 1: valued at more than 10 million shekels, were seized in Bethlehem.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities noted that Kaptagan is a drug that was also
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  Speaker 1: used by Hamas operatives, during the October 7th attacks. The
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  Speaker 1: suspect was arrested through coordination between Palestinian and Israeli police.
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  Speaker 1: Turning to Iran, reports indicate the Islamic Republic is planning
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  Speaker 1: to offer military training to children under 15 as part
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  Speaker 1: of its self-sacrifice campaign. This initiative is proceeding despite international
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  Speaker 1: humanitarian law prohibiting the recruitment of minors under 15. In
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  Speaker 1: a direct link to espionage, an Israeli citizen fares Abu
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  Speaker 1: al-Hijjah has been sentenced to 55 months, or over four years,
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  Speaker 1: in prison for spying for Iran. His activities reportedly included
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  Speaker 1: photographing the home of former Defence Minister Yoav Garland. In
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  Speaker 1: international legal proceedings, an Argentine judge has charged seven Iranians
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  Speaker 1: and one Lebanese Hezbollah member in absentia over the 1994
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  Speaker 1: bombing of the AMIA Jewish centre in Buenos Aires. In
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  Speaker 1: diplomatic arenas, Iranian Foreign Minister Arbas Arachi speaking ahead of
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  Speaker 1: the United Nations General Assembly, criticised Israel's actions and accused
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  Speaker 1: the nation of influencing US policy towards Iran. His ministry's
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  Speaker 1: spokesperson also drew comparisons between US actions against Iran and
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  Speaker 1: Nazi Germany's aggression. Separately, a senior Iranian official, cited by
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  Speaker 1: Kyodo News, reportedly offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz
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  Speaker 1: in exchange for the US lifting vessel blockades, though scepticism
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  Speaker 1: remains about the sincerity of such proposals. In Europe, German
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  Speaker 1: Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated this week that Jewish life in
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  Speaker 1: Germany is no longer safe, calling it the most serious
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  Speaker 1: burden of recent years. This declaration follows a report from
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  Speaker 1: Germany's Antisemitism Monitoring Network, RIAS, which indicated that antisemitic incidents
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  Speaker 1: in the country have reached an all-time high. The Chancellor's
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  Speaker 1: remarks come after his party's setbacks in recent state elections,
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  Speaker 1: including in Berlin, where the far-left Die Linke Party secured victory.
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  Speaker 1: a party on the far right, also made significant gains
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  Speaker 1: in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. These results have put new pressure on
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  Speaker 1: Germany's governing parties, with concerns raised about Die Linke's associations
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  Speaker 1: with pro-Palestinian activists and past anti-Semitism allegations within parts of
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  Speaker 1: the party. In Poland, authorities have charged a man linked
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  Speaker 1: to neo-Nazi groups with offences, including preparing attacks on a
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  Speaker 1: school and a mosque. He was found to have been
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  Speaker 1: in contact with two 16-year-olds online through extremist networks. Justice
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  Speaker 1: Minister Waldemar Csuk vowed that there would be no leniency
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  Speaker 1: for fascism or hatred. Finally, in Israeli defence news, officials
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  Speaker 1: have recommended expanding the Navy's submarine fleet to eight vessels.
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  Speaker 1: This strategic recommendation comes amid Turkey's ongoing naval build-up and
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  Speaker 1: its acquisition of German-made submarines. For continuing coverage of antisemitism
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  Speaker 1: around the world, Listen to Antisemitism, watch from Clockwork Media.
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  Speaker 1: Find it at clockworkmedia.org slash watch. I'm Noah Levi, thank
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