Day 394 - Naval commandos capture Hezbollah sea captain in daring raid
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
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🗓️ 3 November 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode.
Top Hamas official Izz al-Din Kassab was killed Friday in an airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF and Shin Bet announced. Kasab was one of the last remaining members of Hamas’s political bureau, where he served as head of national relations. Fabian weighs in on how functional Hamas is as an entity in the Gaza Strip right now.
Attack drones have emerged as one of the most potent threats to Israel’s home front since the beginning of the year. Yesterday, an Israel Air Force attack helicopter was filmed intercepting a Hezbollah drone in the Binyamina area, south of Haifa, after the drone set off sirens in area communities. Fabian speaks about how the IDF is adjusting how it takes down drones as the war progresses.
Israeli naval commandos captured a Hezbollah official in a raid in northern Lebanon late Friday, the military confirmed on Saturday night, marking an unusual operation both in its nature and location deep inside the country. We hear about the daring mission and what its goals were.
A reprisal attack from Iran is still on the horizon. We hear what preparations the IDF is taking.
For news updates, please check out The Times of Israel’s ongoing live blog.
Discussed articles include:
Three soldiers killed in north Gaza; IDF says 900 terror operatives dead in Jabalia op
IDF says it killed one of the last remaining Hamas politburo members still in Gaza
130 rockets, 10 drones fired at Israel Saturday; helicopter downs drone south of Haifa
Israeli commandos nab top Hezbollah naval operative in north Lebanon raid
Khamenei threatens Israel and US with ‘a crushing response’ to Israel’s airstrikes
US said to warn Iran it won’t be able to restrain Israel if Tehran attacks again
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IMAGE: A building, left, in Batroun, northern Lebanon, November 2, 2024, where a Hezbollah ship captain was taken away by IDF commandos who landed on a coast north of Beirut. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. |
| 0:08.0 | Today is Sunday, November 3rd, Day 394 of the war. |
| 0:13.0 | Amanda Borchelle Dan here with our military reporter, Emmanuel Fabian. |
| 0:16.0 | Hi, Mani. Thanks for joining me. |
| 0:18.0 | Hi, Amanda. Good morning. |
| 0:19.0 | Israeli naval commandos captured a Hezbollah official |
| 0:22.7 | in a raid in northern Lebanon late Friday. Mani will fill us in on what we know about this really unusual |
| 0:28.7 | operation. In Gaza, one of the last remaining members of Hamas's political bureau was killed on Friday |
| 0:35.0 | in an airstrike. We'll learn about this and what else is going |
| 0:38.0 | on the ground there and in Lebanon. And finally, we'll hear about IDF preparations for any reprisal |
| 0:44.3 | from Iran. All this and much, much more when we're back. |
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