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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-07-05 at 15:02
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HEADLINES Lebanese Christian Villages Seek Annexation by Israel HaBashan Pioneers Detained Crossing Into Syria Lidl Plan At Mauthausen Subcamp Sparks Outrage The time is now 3:01 PM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report. In Regional Impacts, President Isaac Herzog criticized Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan’s Friday remarks that Israelis are a burden on the world. Herzog said, “Israel is here to stay, and it is a blessing to the world,” adding that Israel stands at the forefront against the terrorism threatening the globe and that Israeli innovations bless billions every day. He spoke at a Sunday event marking Theodor Herzl’s death and urged unity before Israeli elections. Around 100 HaBashan Pioneers settlers were detained by the IDF after crossing from the Israel-Syria buffer zone into the Syrian side of Mount Hermon. The group said it intentionally placed itself in a mountainous area to complicate evacuation, stressing a desire to avoid violence while aiming to establish an Israeli settlement and arguing that active IDF control is needed in the area amid reported attacks on Israeli communities in the Golan Heights. Israeli authorities released 9 Gazan prisoners of war to the Gaza Strip today and handed them over to the Red Cross. Prime Minister Netanyahu revealed that Christian villages in Lebanon asked to be annexed to Israel. Additionally, reports from the Hashmonaim checkpoint described a vehicle-ramming incident, and a 40-year-old man was seriously injured by a stabbing on Halutz Street in Haifa; MDA teams transported him to Rambam Hospital in Haifa. In Israeli Domestic Politics, political rivals Yuli Edelstein and Yair Lapid, interviewed separately on Channel 12’s Meet the Press, unexpectedly aligned on national p…