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Hamas payment demands prompt Gaza traders to suspend deliveries, COGAT says

Israeli body says merchants report threats and demands for NIS 10,000 per truck, raising concerns over disruptions to goods and drinking water supplies

NY man who said put ‘all Jews in gas chamber’ charged with threatening FBI agents who investigated him

Dylan Daniell is also accused of calling a Jewish Lakewood, N.J., charity and saying that he “would like to kill Benjamin Netanyahu and all the Jews.”
Read More…JNS

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IDF establishing new corps for countering low-altitude drones amid growing UAV threat

For more than a decade, the IDF has been trying to address the threat posed by drones operating in the airspace close to the ground, using a variety of methods.
Read More…The Jerusalem Post

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Houthis building new longer-range missiles with Chinese-imported parts – report

WSJ cites arms-tracking group’s assessment of Yemeni rebels’ efforts to make a variant of Iran’s Kheibar Shekan ballistic missiles, which could have a 1,900-km range
Read More…The Times of Israel

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Colombia becomes 10th country with embassy in Jerusalem

Israel’s foreign minister called it a historic day for ties between the two countries and an important day for the capital.
Read More…JNS

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Greek minister dismisses anti-Israel protests as ‘antisemitic propaganda’

A senior Greek government minister on Monday voiced strong support for burgeoning ties with Israel amid a strengthening regional alliance, dismissing as “antisemitic propaganda” claims by anti-Israel activists and saying they have little impact on the government or Greek society at large.

Palestinian terror suspect caught filming Bnei Brak light rail

The Israel Police said on Tuesday that it had arrested a Palestinian suspected of past involvement in terror attacks who was in Israel illegally, posed as a citizen and filmed inside a light-rail station.

Student killed in blast near Lebanon border ID’d as 9th grader Elazar Yair Wilensky

A high schooler killed in a Monday explosion of Hezbollah ordnance during a school trip near the Lebanon border was named as 9th grader Elazar Yair Wilensky.

US, UK among 29 countries condemning Iranian hybrid attacks, state-sponsored violence in West

The foreign ministers of 29 countries, led by the UK, released a joint statement on Monday condemning Iranian hybrid attacks and state-sponsored violence outside of its own borders, including arson, cyberattacks, and sabotage plots.

Iran fortifies nuclear sites, rebuilds missile arsenal as it prepares for the next war

Satellite images show that Iran is fortifying various locations as it may be preparing for renewed war, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Read more: Jerusalem Post

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Security footage shows deadly Houthi missile attack on Riyadh airport over weekend

Muslim pilgrims wrapped in white garments queued for a document check at Riyadh’s international airport when a powerful explosion brought chunks of the ceiling down on their heads, security footage released on Monday by Saudi authorities showed.

Iran spread anti-Israel, US disinformation to global media through fake journalists, OpenAI says

Iran used artificial intelligence to generate social media comments, create at least seven fake journalist personas, and pitch long-form articles to global media outlets as part of a covert influence operation, OpenAI confirmed in an announcement released on Thursday.

Two-state solution a ‘trap we set for Israel,’ Lebanon-based Fatah official brags

“We know the trap we have set for Israel by demanding a two-state solution,” Basel Abu Shahab, secretary of the Fatah movement in the Burj al-Shemali refugee camp in Lebanon, told Palestine TV, adding that Israel “has reason to fear us.”

Co-pilot terrorist on flydubai flight plotted to crash plane into Ben-Gurion Airport

The Omani co-pilot who attempted to crash flydubai Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv on Sept. 30 initially planned to fly the plane into the passenger terminal at Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport, aiming to kill as many people as possible, Emirati Attorney-General Hamad Saif Al Shamsi was cited as saying on Friday by the country’s…

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One killed, several wounded in Galilee Panhandle explosion

One person was killed and nearly 20 wounded in an explosion near Kibbutz Neot Mordechai in Israel’s Galilee Panhandle on Monday afternoon, according to Israeli officials and medical responders.

EU should put Muslim Brotherhood on terror list, European Parliament votes

The matter now goes to the European Council, which determines political matters for the European Union.
Read More…JNS

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At Edan Alexander Way, Gottheimer announces bills marking Oct. 7, withholding US aid until UN designates Hamas, Hezbollah

“We speak the truth about Oct. 7,” the Jewish Democratic congressman said on the street named for the last liberated, living American hostage. “We stand up to hate, wherever it rears its ugly head.”
Read More…JNS

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US sanctions ‘vast majority’ of remaining Iranian shadow fleet

The U.S. Treasury Department said it is “starving the tyrannical regime in Tehran of the money it uses to wage war in the region.”
Read More…JNS