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Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today’s episode.
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Senior officials from the US, France and Saudi Arabia are set to meet in Paris today amid fears that Israel will embark on a new military operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon when a December 31 deadline to disarm the Iran-backed terror group passes, a diplomatic official told The Times of Israel on Tuesday. We have seen an uptick in tensions over the past few weeks. Fabian takes us back to early October to give context for what is currently happening on the ground.
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In one of his first moves, new Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Itai Ofir decided today to close a criminal case against a senior reserves officer who was facing charges over his involvement in the circumstances that led to the deaths of a soldier and a civilian researcher in southern Lebanon in November 2024. Fabian was in the area when this occurred and fills us in.
Israeli settlers torched a vehicle and sprayed graffiti in a West Bank village, Ein Yabrud, near Ramallah overnight, according to Palestinian media. The conflict in the West Bank is always at a low boil, but are appearances deceiving in that it seems to be on a higher flame in the past several weeks?
After Palestinian media reported a series of Israeli airstrikes in eastern Gaza City, the IDF said it was conducting routine activity to demolish Hamas infrastructure in the Israeli-controlled area. In addition to the tunnel demolitions, there are almost daily incidents in which Gazans attempt to cross the Yellow Line from the Hamas-ruled side. Fabian gives several scenarios for the attempted crossings.
Earlier in the month, Fabian visited Hamas’s “most complex” tunnel network in the Gaza Strip, where the remains of Lt. Hadar Goldin were eventually recovered. Goldin was killed and abducted by the terror group in 2014, and it transpires that his body was held some two kilometers from the Israeli border.
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For further reading:
US, French, Saudi officials to meet in Paris about preventing renewed war in Lebanon
IDF postpones planned strike on alleged Hezbollah site as Lebanese army searches it
IDF drops charges against reserve officer over deadly Lebanon incident last year
Settlers said to torch vehicle, spray graffiti in attack on West Bank village
Scouring massive labyrinth under Rafah, IDF just missed finding Hadar Goldin’s body
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