Latest / Israel Today: Ongoing War Report / Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - September 30, 2026, 07 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: This week, global tensions surrounding Iran have heightened, alongside significant
- 0:16Speaker 1: internal developments. In the United Kingdom, British Prime Minister Andy
- 0:21Speaker 1: Burnham stated on Wednesday that there are strong indications Iran
- 0:25Speaker 1: was involved in suspicious activity at the RAF Fairford airbase
- 0:29Speaker 1: over the weekend. Speaking to the BBC, Burnham said that
- 0:32Speaker 1: while the incident remains under complex police investigation, UK authorities
- 0:37Speaker 1: believe Iran played a part. Iran's embassy in London has
- 0:41Speaker 1: categorically rejected this, calling any such speculation wrong. Police confirmed
- 0:46Speaker 1: no explosives were found at the scene, though a quantity
- 0:49Speaker 1: of petrol was retrieved. RAF Fairford is used by the
- 0:52Speaker 1: US military for operations, and Britain's permission for its use
- 0:56Speaker 1: against Iran had previously drawn criticism from Tehran. Meanwhile, US
- 1:01Speaker 1: President Donald Trump issued a stark warning on Iran, telling
- 1:05Speaker 1: reporters that time has come to either make a deal
- 1:07Speaker 1: with Iran or maybe blow them up. President Trump also
- 1:11Speaker 1: detailed a conversation with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the
- 1:15Speaker 1: recent attempted hijacking of a FlyJuby flight. According to Trump's account,
- 1:20Speaker 1: the Copilot may have been a terrorist or a whack
- 1:22Speaker 1: job and had stabbed the pilot. He recounted an amazing
- 1:26Speaker 1: intervention by an Israeli passenger, identified as a plumber. who
- 1:30Speaker 1: he claimed helped regain control of the aircraft during its descent.
- 1:34Speaker 1: Trump emphasised that he was relaying a story he had heard,
- 1:37Speaker 1: which he cautioned was not independently confirmed. In business news,
- 1:41Speaker 1: Israeli carrier Arkea is preparing to resume its Dubai route
- 1:44Speaker 1: following the fly-Jubai incident. Domestically, President Isaac Herzog visited an
- 1:49Speaker 1: IDF base in the West Bank and strongly condemned violence
- 1:53Speaker 1: and vigilantism. We are a nation of the rule of law,
- 1:56Speaker 1: and as a democracy with the rule of law, We
- 1:58Speaker 1: make sure that the rule of law applies here, Herzog stated,
- 2:02Speaker 1: vowing to take legal action against those undermining the rule
- 2:05Speaker 1: of law. This comes after an incident near the Palestinian
- 2:08Speaker 1: village of Jalad, where over 100 Jewish extremists reportedly attacked
- 2:13Speaker 1: IDF soldiers and border police officers, preventing a Palestinian family
- 2:17Speaker 1: from returning to their home. The IDF made a rare
- 2:20Speaker 1: public admission that its mission had failed so far. The
- 2:24Speaker 1: riots were condemned by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. and the
- 2:27Speaker 1: US State Department. In local news, emergency services responded to
- 2:32Speaker 1: a fire in a residential building in Bnei Brak, where
- 2:35Speaker 1: MDA teams treated multiple injured individuals, two of whom were
- 2:39Speaker 1: reported in serious condition. For continuing coverage of antisemitism around
- 2:43Speaker 1: the world, listen to Antisemitism Watch from Clockwork Media. Find
- 2:48Speaker 1: it at clockworkmedia.org slash watch. I'm Noah Levi, thank you
- 2:52Speaker 1: for listening to Israel Today ongoing war report. Stay safe
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- 3:02Speaker 1: in mind that this AI-generated report may contain occasional inaccuracies,
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