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Hero who helped subdue flydubai terrorist says he told investigators about suspicious crew members

Asaf Rajuan, one of the Israeli passengers who intervened in a terror attack on the pilot by the copilot who sough to crash their flydubai flight, hugs another passenger from the same flight, as they arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel, September 30, 2026. (AP Photo/ Ariel Schalit)

Asaf Rajuan, one of the Israeli heroes who helped subdue the terrorist copilot Hamam al-Hammami,  who tried to crash a flydubai flight full of Israelis, says he told investigators about his concerns regarding two of the flight attendants.

In an interview with Channel 12 news, Rajuan describes the two crew members as “strapping,” saying they weren’t the “typecast” of flight attendants.

He also says that in retrospect the two acted unusually during beverage and food service, but acknowledges there was nothing they did that was particularly suspicious.

“Something there smelled off,” he says, alleging the two crew members were exchanging nervous glances and that one of them asked in an accusatory manner if he was a police officer.

According to Rajuan, he told security officials the two had a code to enter the cockpit and were “coming and going,” which he says should be looked into.

It’s not always clear from his remarks at what point on the flight he is referring to.

He also says one of the flight attendants brought an unidentified pill — which he notes could’ve been Aspirin — to Captain Smit Machchhar as Dr. Shota Musayev, an Israeli dentist, was treating the wounds he sustained when attacked by his Omani copilot. Rajuan points out that Machchhar had an oxygen mask on, which they yelled at the crew member.

Additionally, Rajuan says it was suspicious how the crew yelled at passengers not to film and alleges that one flight attendant was “slowly loosening” the zip ties that those who thwarted the attack used to bind the terrorist.

“We said to him, ‘What are you doing? What are you doing?’ It drove us crazy, we almost jumped on him.”

“We were afraid of them. They were beasts. You touch him, you feel like you’re touching a rock… One of my fears is that one of them would take a weapon, take out a knife, something,” Rajuan continues.

Asked if it was possible that the crew members were similarly stressed, he responds that it’s possible. “Therefore I’m not coming out with declarations, I’m telling you my feelings and what we saw.”

Rajuan also makes a point to say that one of the two crew members for some 30 minutes was looking around while “bent over” the wounded Indian pilot “as if he wanted to do something… And then at some point… he grabbed my hand and looked me in the eyes and said something like, ‘If he will be dead, we will land safe.'”

“I was a little in shock,” he says.

Both the interviewer and Rajuan also suggest it’s suspicious that the two pilots who were aboard the flight and took control of the plane after the attack haven’t appeared publicly since the incident.

Israel has said it does not believe any other members of the flydubai aircrew were involved in al-Hammami’s attempt to crash the plane, according to an October 5 Channel 12 news report.

Crew members were questioned by investigators in the UAE, and they concluded that the other crew members were not involved, that report said. The aircrew members were questioned at Israel’s request, after some passengers reported what they considered strange behavior by other aircrew members. The crew members acknowledged they were shocked and rattled by the unfolding attack. Israel, the report said, shares the UAE investigators’ conclusions.

Hammami reportedly plotted to carry out the attack in July, but ended up canceling his plan at the last moment as he was friends with one of the crew members.

Confirming on Friday that Hammami intended to crash the plane into Ben Gurion Airport, the UAE said the pilot confessed to acting alone, but the UAE’s attorney generalwas quoted saying an investigation was still ongoing into possible accomplices.

Settlers, soldiers reportedly block Palestinians from picking olives near Ramallah

Settlers blocked Palestinians from picking olives in the Ramallah-area village of Burqa this morning, according to footage and reports in Palestinian media, amid repeated attacks on Palestinians in the nascent annual harvest season.

Burqa local council head Sayel Kanaan is cited by WAFA, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency, as saying that a group of settlers entered the grove close to neighboring Deir Dibwan, accosted the olive pickers, forced them off the land and threatened them not to return. The agency notes that settlers allegedly set fire to homes in Burqa earlier this week.

A brief video published by Palestinian media from the scene in Burqa this morning shows Elisha Yered, a key settler organizer, using his phone to film the Palestinian man who captured the footage.

🎥 عاجل | مستوطنون يقتحمون أراضي المزارعين في محيط قرية برقا شرقي رام الله. pic.twitter.com/7rP0Lt8NEL

— وكالة شهاب للأنباء (@ShehabAgency) October 10, 2026

Yered stands alongside another settler, and behind them a third settler can be seen armed with what appears to be a military assault rifle.

The Palestinian man who captured the footage can be heard saying, “I’m barred from approaching. This is my land. You’re Elisha, correct?”

Elsewhere in the Ramallah area, WAFA reports Israeli soldiers prevented Palestinians from accessing the Palestinians’ land in the village of Kafr Ni’ma.

Footage shot from afar shows about a dozen people walking away from the military-controlled gate at the entrance to the village, as two soldiers stand in front of them and another four soldiers stand behind the gate. In another video from the scene, at least one gunshot can be heard.

عاجل| جيش الاحتلال يمنع المزارعين من الوصول إلى أراضيهم ويطردهم ويطلق الرصاص الحي في منطقة الوادي ببلدة كفر نعمة غرب رام الله. pic.twitter.com/qKN8VL63Jy

— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) October 10, 2026

Also near Ramallah, in Deir Abu Mashal, Israeli forces were filmed tossing a stun grenade at journalists covering the olive harvest. The forces used tear gas and rubber bullets, one of which hit Anadolu photojournalist Issam Rimawi in the thigh, according to reports and footage.

متابعة | قوات الاحتلال تطلق قنابل الغاز اتجاه المزراعين والصحفيين والمتطوعين في قرية دير أبو مشعل غرب رام الله . pic.twitter.com/OZWZouz9yu

— فلسطين أون لايـن (@F24online) October 10, 2026

إصابة الصحفي عصام الريماوي بالرصاص المطاطي في الفخذ خلال تغطية قمع الاحتلال للمزارعين في دير أبو مشعل غرب رام الله صباح اليوم. pic.twitter.com/XoS4Jk0i6l

— القسطل الإخباري (@AlQastalps) October 10, 2026

Palestinians are free to harvest olives in some areas of the West Bank, and are barred or required to coordinate with Israel’s Civil Administration in other areas.

It’s unclear which restrictions apply to the area in the footage from Burqa, Kafr Ni’ma and Deir Abu Mashal. The IDF does not immediately comment on any of the incidents.

Yered, who serves as an unofficial spokesman for the violent “Hilltop Youth” fringe, said on social media on Friday that “the coming Shabbat the violent provocations will come to a head with the official opening of the harvest season” in the West Bank.

“Dozens of terrorist incidents and violent attacks” were expected, he said, calling on supporters to “be vigilant, and of course give very limited credence to any libel that will be published in the left-wing media and on Arabic networks.”

Nurit Yohanan contributed to this report.

Hundreds of thousands without power after Isaias slams Florida Panhandle and Alabama

A US flag flaps in the wind generated by Hurricane Isaias on an empty beach on Mon Louis Island, Alabama, on October 9, 2026 (AP Photo/Octavio Jones)

Hundreds of thousands of people in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle are without power after Isaias crashed into the US Gulf Coast as a dangerous hurricane and left flooded roads and downed trees in its wake as it moved inland.

Forecasters also warned that conditions could stir up tornadoes across parts of the Florida Panhandle and into Georgia and the Carolinas.

Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, as the first hurricane of the Atlantic season. Hurricane-force winds lashed the Gulf shoreline in the low-lying coastal area known for powdery white-sand beaches dotted with vacation homes, waterfront bars, and seafood shacks.

Roads in Destin were flooded, while in nearby Pensacola, police warned residents to stay off the streets because of debris across roadways.

Some Panhandle counties temporarily suspended emergency response Friday night because of dangerous conditions. The extent of the damage was not immediately clear.

Parts of southern Alabama also were flooded, with officials in Mobile reporting downed trees and power lines. Roads in Houston County, which is in the southeastern corner of the state, were closed because of similar conditions.

More than 726,000 customers in Florida and Alabama were without power early Saturday, according to poweroutage.com.

Isaias made landfall Friday as a Category 2 hurricane, then quickly moved north through Alabama as its wind speeds dropped sharply. Despite weakening, heavy rain is forecast as Isaias moves inland, with 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters) or even more expected through the weekend from southern Alabama, the Florida Panhandle and Big Bend, and southwest Georgia.

Isaias, the first hurricane to hit the eastern US since Milton tore up the Gulf Coast of Florida in 2024, is also expected to bring heavy rain and potential flooding to much of the Southeast over the weekend, then to parts of the Midwest and Northeast into Monday.

The storm also grounded most Friday flights at several panhandle airports, including all flights into and out of Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport.

Meanwhile, in the Pacific, Simon strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane as it approached Mexico’s coast. Tropical Storm Rachel is also expected to bring heavy winds and rain to northern Mexico and Southern California over the weekend.

Nine wounded by Israeli forces and settlers near Ramallah, Palestinian medics say

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reports at least nine people wounded by Israeli settlers and forces during the olive harvest in the Ramallah-area village of Deir Abu Mashal. The IDF does not immediately comment.

The wounded include at least one person who took a live bullet to the leg and others who were beaten or hit by rubber bullets, according to the Red Crescent.

Palestinian media earlier reported that photojournalist Issam Rimawi of Turkish news agency Anadolu was hit in the thigh by a rubber bullet fired by Israeli forces in Deir Abu Mashal while he covered the olive harvest there. The forces also reportedly fired tear gas against Palestinian olive pickers.

Footage published by Palestinian media shows Rimawi on a stretcher being taken into a Red Crescent ambulance vehicle.

Separate footage shows a medic attending to another young man who is bleeding from the head and thigh.

لحظة نقل الصحفي "عصام الريماوي" إلى المستشفى عُقب إصابته بالرصاص المطاطي بالفخد في قرية دير أبو مشعل غرب رام الله. pic.twitter.com/GvrH1ZOxim

— شبكة فلسطين للحوار (@paldf) October 10, 2026

الهلال الأحمر الفلسطيني | 4 إصابات خلال هجوم المستوطنين على قرية دير أبو مشعل قرب رام الله pic.twitter.com/VlSFMjhQRe

— إذاعة صوت الغد (@sawtelghad) October 10, 2026

Anti-Israel group petitions ICC to investigate Israeli health officials for war crimes over Sde Teiman

People protest against the detention of IDF reservists suspected of abusing a Palestinian inmate at the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel on July 29, 2024. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

The anti-Israel Hind Rajab Foundation says it petitioned the International Criminal Court to investigate Israeli doctors, hospital administrators, the Israeli Medical Association and the ministries of health and defense for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide over alleged abuse of Palestinian inmates at the Sde Teiman military detention center.

Individuals identified in the petition include former health ministers Moshe Arbel and Uriel Busso as well as IMA President Zion Hagay, the association’s CEO Leah Wapner and head of its ethics board, Yosef Walfisch, the legal group says.

Sde Teiman, in southern Israel, has repeatedly faced accusations of maltreatment and torture of Gazan inmates held there following the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023, that sparked the Gaza war.

A right-wing mob that included some coalition members stormed the base in 2024 after Military Police arrested several reservists there on suspicion of severe sexual abuse against an inmate.

Putin conveyed to Trump Tehran’s position on ending US-Iran war, Kremlin says

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian during their meeting on the sidelines of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) summit in Türkmenbaşy, Turkmenistan, October 8, 2026. (Sergei Bobylev/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has relayed to US President Donald Trump Iran’s position on a possible resolution to the US-Iran war, with the backing of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, the Kremlin says, according to Russia’s Interfax news agency.

“In coordination with the president of Iran, Putin conveyed to Trump the Iranian side’s view on a possible resolution of the conflict,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying.

The news agency also cites Russia’s defense ministry as saying its forces have captured the settlements of Lukashove and Lobanivka in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region. Reuters cannot independently verify the battlefield reports.

8-year-old boy seriously wounded in apparent traffic accident in south, medics say

Medics rushed an 8-year-old boy to Beersheba’s Soroka Hospital in serious condition after he was apparently hurt in a traffic accident in southern Israel, the Magen David Adom ambulance service says.

The boy was brought to the medics at Nevatim Junction, Magen David Adom says.

Lebanese president hails Trump’s decision to revoke 41-year-old restrictions on direct US flights

US President Donald Trump, right, meets with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on July 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun says US President Donald Trump’s decision to revoke flight restrictions between Lebanon and the US that were imposed four decades ago was an indication of Washington’s confidence in steps taken by Beirut to address civil aviation safety.

Direct flights between the US and Lebanon were suspended in 1985 by the Reagan administration following the hijacking of TWA Flight 847.

Trump made the surprise announcement that he would allow US carriers to resume direct flights to Lebanon during a visit by Aoun to Washington in July. While Trump ordered the lifting of the restrictions nearly two weeks ago, the decision was publicly announced only today.

The move comes amid US-brokered talks between Israel and Lebanon on issues including the disarmament of Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah, which has been weakened after two wars with Israel since the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023.

Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

Man shot dead in Rahat, police say

Police say a man was fatally shot in the southern Bedouin town of Rahat a short while ago, apparently as part of a criminal “dispute between families.”

He is identified in media reports as Musa al-Jabbour, 26.

Medics rushed the man from the scene and later pronounced him dead, according to police.

Officers are gathering evidence on the scene, police add.

رهط: مقتل الشاب موسى الجبور من جراء تعرضه لإطلاق نار على خلفية نزاع بين عائلاتhttps://t.co/mLLpNjk0WS pic.twitter.com/38PypLHtgP

— مكان الأخبار (@News_Makan) October 10, 2026

Sudanese paramilitary group RSF kills 40 people in drone strike near Ethiopia border, monitor says

A drone strike Friday killed at least 40 people, including children, in Sudan along the border with Ethiopia, according to Emergency Lawyers, a group that tracks the war.

It says the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group that has been battling Sudan’s military since 2023, was responsible for Friday’s strike in the Abu Shandi area in Sudan’s Blue Nile province.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said it was appalled by the strike.

The conflict has killed at least 150,000 people, according to conflict monitor ACLED, though aid groups say the real number is likely higher.

Abbas scraps legislative election, sets Sept. 2027 for Palestinians to elect president and legislature

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends the inauguration ceremony of the Innovation and Excellence Compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, September 9, 2026. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas formally cancels the legislative elections scheduled for November 28, 2026, and sets presidential and legislative elections for September 11, 2027, according to a statement published by the PA’s official news outlet WAFA.

The statement says restrictions and attacks by Israel in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem undermine “the possibility of holding free, fair and inclusive elections on the previous date while ensuring public safety and the ability of Palestinians to exercise their electoral rights freely and securely.”

Abbas, 90, has not faced an election since 2005, and the PA legislature has been largely defunct since the last legislative election, in 2006, when Abbas’s Fatah lost to Hamas.

Under pressure from international backers, and seeking to gain international legitimacy to govern over Gaza, Abbas earlier this year had committed to holding a legislative election on November 28 and presidential elections at an undetermined date next year.

Reuters contributed to this report.

UK National Health Service workers spread hate against Jews and Israel, cheered on Oct. 7 — report

An illustration taken on July 7, 2024, shows the National Health Service (NHS) logo displayed on a screen backdropped by the Union Jack flag. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

Following a Campaign Against Antisemitism documentary last month about Jew hatred in Britain’s National Health Service, UK newspaper The Daily Mail reports on inflammatory statements by five NHS workers, including three doctors, against Jews and Israel.

One of the NHS employees is Fatimah Mohamied, a registered midwife who the Daily Mail says was appointed “cultural safety champion” at London’s West Middlesex Hospital.

She reportedly went on to respond “Hell yeah!!!” in response to a post that said, “Palestinians have a right to resist their occupation — when have a right to support them,” during the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023.

She resigned in March 2024 and was referred by the NHS to law enforcement after accusations of antisemitism, The Daily Mail says, adding that the referrals were dismissed and that she has brought a claim that is still being adjudicated against her employer.

Another NHS employee, Zaida Akhtar, in December 2025 reportedly shared a video that said the terrorist shooting that killed 15 people and wounded dozens at an Australian Jewish community Hanukkah party on Sydney’s Bondi Beach was a “false flag.”

Akhtar works as an occupational therapist at University Hospitals Birmingham, The Daily Mail says.

Other inflammatory comments came from Abdelaal Ragheb Elfarra, a Gazan-born GP at St. James’s University Hospital in Leeds, the newspaper reports. Those reportedly include his own statement in December 2024 that “Israelis are much worse than Nazis” and a post he shared in July 2024 that said the Rothschild banking family is the “most wealthiest and influential family, believed to control all the world’s money” — a historic antisemitic trope employed by the Nazis, among others.

Another doctor, Manchester-based psychiatrist Ahmed Sewehli, reportedly called at least twice on social media for the death of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and wrote in 2025 that “Zionism is the ideology of terror, mass murder, displacement and depravity” and that the Islamic State terror group is “learning new acts of depravity” from the Israeli military.

The third doctor, British-Jordanian citizen Nadeem Crowe, was suspended in August 2024 from his position as an emergency room doctor with the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust after a colleague complained about his online activity, which included a call for police to investigate UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, whom Crowe described as “an absolute risk to Arabs and Muslims,” The Daily Mail says.

Columbia apologizes for listing ‘October 7th’ pasta sauce on daily menu on onslaught’s 3rd anniversary

Columbia University has apologized for listing “October 7th Blush Sauce” as one of the available pasta condiments on the daily menu at its dining hall on Wednesday, the third anniversary of the Hamas-led onslaught, the Columbia Spectator reports.

Vicki Dunn, assistant vice president of Columbia Dining, said in a Wednesday statement quoted by the student newspaper that the date was copied onto the menu template by accident.

“This was an unfortunate mistake and was not intended as a reference to the attacks of October 7,” Dunn said, adding that staff took down the signs “as soon as the mistake was identified,” the Spectator reports.

On the menu at Columbia University’s dining hall today: October 7th Blush Sauce pic.twitter.com/LowwIH1DYP

— Simone Saidmehr (@saidmehr_simone) October 7, 2026

Kushner says ‘hard work ahead’ to implement Gaza deal, one year since signing

US envoy Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, touts the achievement of the Gaza hostage release-ceasefire deal in a post marking the agreement’s one-year anniversary.

Kushner says that despite the success, “There is still hard work ahead.

“Disarmament [of Hamas and terror groups] must be implemented, security established, essential services restored, and communities rebuilt. None of this will be easy. But we have a thoughtful plan, committed partners, and a path forward that did not exist a year ago,” he writes on X.

One year ago today, on October 9, 2025, we reached an agreement on President Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza many believed impossible.

After two years of devastating war, the agreement created a path to reunite hostage families with their loved ones, bring security to…

— Jared Kushner (@jaredkushner) October 9, 2026

Loud blast heard at Riyadh airport; two officials say facility attacked

A loud blast is heard at the airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh, according to an eyewitness and people briefed on the matter.

Two regional officials tell AP that the airport in the Saudi capital has been attacked again.

People at the airport were being evacuated from the facility, three witnesses tell AFP, as officials call on passengers to check their flight status before heading there.

Fighting in Yemen between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces has escalated, with a Saudi-led coalition providing air support for government forces in an attempt to reverse recent Houthi gains along the Red Sea.

Nobel winner Pillay decries US sanctions on ICC ‘unheard of, unacceptable’

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay, center, visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, in Jerusalem, February 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

OSLO, Norway — Judge and former UN rights chief Navi Pillay of South Africa, winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, calls recently announced US sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) “unheard of, unacceptable.”

“There is so much tension and anxiety over the continued existence of international courts, mainly the International Criminal Court in The Hague… most importantly, sanctions have been announced by one country against the judges, just for the judicial orders they issue. This is unheard of, unacceptable,” Pillay says via video link from Nuremberg during an event at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo.

Israel’s Raz Hershko wins bronze at Judo World Championships

Israel’s Raz Hershko reacts after winning the women’s over 78 kg bronze medal bout at the World Judo Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, on October 10, 2026. (Anne-Christine POUJOULAT/AFP)

Israel’s Raz Hershko wins the bronze medal in the open weight category (over 78 kg) at the Judo World Championships in Baku.

Hershko had a good run in the competition but lost to South Korea’s Hyeonji Lee in the semifinals.

Houthis hit Riyadh airport with missile this afternoon — diplomatic source

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A diplomatic source tells AFP that Yemen’s Houthis hit the Riyadh airport with a missile at around 3:00 p.m. local time.

“Houthis are attacking civilian targets. Riyadh airport is a civilian target,” says the source, who had been briefed on the matter.

IDF launches interceptor at ‘suspicious aerial target’ in southern Lebanon

The IDF says it launched an interceptor at a “suspicious aerial target” detected in an area where troops are operating in southern Lebanon.

The results of the interception are being investigated, the military says, adding that no sirens sounded “according to protocol.”

Thousands march in anti-Israel protest in London, call for end to Gaza strikes

People cross Westminster Bridge as they take part in an anti-Israel march organized by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, in central London, on October 10, 2026. (JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP)

LONDON — Several thousand anti-Israel protesters march through central London on Saturday, calling for an end to Israeli strikes on Gaza.

Marchers carry placards reading “End the genocide” and “Free Palestine” as they make their way along the route near the British Parliament.

“We are here today to mark three years of the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” Aimee Shalan, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, tells AFP.

She says UK-led Western sanctions over settler violence did not go far enough, calling for “full sanctions on Israel.”

Police say they had made “several arrests,” including a man and a woman with placards of support for the banned organization Palestine Action.

Recent graduate Hibo Hassan, 23, says she was there to show her solidarity.

“Although it is happening in the Middle East, it affects us here now,” she says.

“It’s extremely dystopian and that is something we should be all scared about,” she adds.

Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

Israel says it killed two terror operatives in Khan Younis

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian Islamic Jihad company commander who took part in the October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel, along with a member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force, in separate strikes in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis area this week, the IDF and Shin Bet say in a joint statement.

Muhammad Abu Shalouf, a company commander in Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s military wing, was killed in a strike on Wednesday, the military says. Musa Atef Musa Abu Dan, identified as a member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force, was killed in a separate strike yesterday.

The military says the two recently “advanced attacks against IDF troops and operated to restore the terrorist organizations’ capabilities,” targeting them to “remove the threat.”

להסרת איום: צה"ל ושב"כ חיסלו מפקד פלוגה בארגון הטרור גא"פ שפשט לשטח מדינת ישראל בטבח 7 באוקטובר, ומחבל נוסף מארגון הטרור חמאס

צה"ל ושב"כ תקפו במרחב חאן יונס שברצועת עזה מוקדם יותר השבוע, וחיסלו את מחמד אבו שלוף, מפקד פלוגה בזרוע הצבאית של ארגון הטרור גא"פ.

המחבל פשט לשטח מדינת… pic.twitter.com/GGLhb8m265

— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) October 10, 2026

Nine killed, including suspect, in shooting in Pennsylvania

Nine people were killed yesterday in a shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, Gov. Josh Shapiro says. Police say the suspected shooter was included among the dead.

“I have not seen anything like this in my 28-plus years,” Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah tells a local news station. “I’m not sure that the city of Erie has ever seen the loss of life and the devastation that we just witnessed.”

Lorah declines to provide more details but says the circumstances of the shooting were “deeply disturbing.”

Shapiro says he offered his administration’s “full support” to Erie Mayor Daria Devlin.

The city of Erie posted late last night that the suspected shooter was dead and there was no threat to the public.

Erie is about 117 miles (188 kilometers) north of Pittsburgh.

Reports: Settler attacks during olive harvest in several areas of West Bank

Palestinian media reported earlier today that four Palestinians were injured in a settler attack in the Beita area and were evacuated for medical treatment.

According to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, those attacked were farmers who had apparently come to the area for the olive harvest season. They were beaten in the attack.

Separately, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported that nine Palestinian farmers were injured in the village of Deir Abu Mashal, near Ramallah.

Footage from the scene shows soldiers firing tear gas toward Palestinians.

The IDF says in response: “A violent confrontation broke out between dozens of Palestinians and activists and Israeli civilians, involving stone-throwing. An Israeli civilian was injured during the confrontation.

“IDF troops were dispatched to the area and acted to disperse the confrontation.”

إصابات تصل المشفى في رام الله جراء هجوم مليشيات المستوطنين على المزارعين في بلدة دير أبو مشعل pic.twitter.com/Au6ohM4FOg

— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) October 10, 2026

Sa’ar says Israel not responsible for Palestinian elections delay

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar says Israel was not responsible for a one-year delay in legislative elections announced today by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who had blamed the move on Israeli obstruction.

“Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian corrupt dictator, who has not held elections in over twenty years, has once again deceived the international community,” Sa’ar says on X. “His attempt to drag Israel into this, falsely claiming that Israel imposed obstacles to holding elections, is yet another ridiculous lie designed to evade responsibility and accountability.”

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian corrupt dictator, who has not held elections in over twenty years, has once again deceived the international community.

His attempt to drag Israel into this, falsely claiming that Israel imposed obstacles to holding elections, is yet another…

— Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער (@gidonsaar) October 10, 2026

Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

Biden official confirms Israeli allegations that Netanyahu delayed Gaza deal in 2024 by adding conditions

Phil Gordon, who served as US Vice President Kamala Harris’s national security adviser during the Biden administration, confirms Avi Gil and other Israeli allegations that Netanyahu delayed a hostage release-ceasefire deal in 2024.

“Netanyahu supporters seem to be taking advantage of @Brett_McGurk’s book and interviews to claim vindication for Netanyahu’s conduct of the war in Gaza,” he writes on X, referencing Biden’s national security adviser.

“But while Brett’s front-row account is valuable, that doesn’t mean it is definitive or its perspectives widely shared — including among former members of the Biden administration,” he says.

“Brett tells the story of the Biden phone call after that tragedy, but not the story of how Biden called Netanyahu on July 4, 2024, to press him to conclude the hostage deal after Hamas had finally accepted the basic framework, dropping its demand that Israel commit to a permanent ceasefire before any hostages were released,” he continues.

“Netanyahu instead added so many of his own conditions — against the advice of his own security chiefs — that the deal became impossible for another six months, during which nearly 9,000 more Palestinians were killed and more Israeli hostages died, including the six that Hamas executed in August,” he says.

Gordon adds, “The Israeli changes included a demand that Israel retain forces along Gaza’s entire border with Egypt, which the IDF had seized only after the original proposal, and a new enforcement mechanism to screen Gazans who were returning home to the north which would have required Israeli troops to remain in central Gaza. Both of those new conditions were dropped in the deal ultimately concluded in January 2025.”

Netanyahu supporters seem to be taking advantage of @Brett_McGurk’s book and interviews to claim vindication for Netanyahu’s conduct of the war in Gaza. But while Brett’s front-row account is valuable, that doesn’t mean it is definitive or its perspectives widely shared—including…

— Phil Gordon (@PhilGordonDC) October 10, 2026

Sirens warn of possible drone infiltration in Western Galilee town

Sirens sound in Arab al-Aramshe in the Western Galilee, warning of a suspected hostile unmanned aircraft infiltration.

The IDF says the details are under investigation.

Red Cross chief says efforts focused on getting Gaza hostages freed, while visiting them was ‘complicated’

International Committee of the Red Cross President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger looks on during an international humanitarian conference for civilians in Gaza, at the Élysée Presidential Palace in Paris, on November 9, 2023. (Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP)

Asked if her organization had access to hostages in Gaza, Red Cross President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger tells The New York Times that visiting hostages is “complicated” and that the group’s efforts were focused on getting them released.

“So the objective always has to be to bring the hostages back. And the longer it takes, the more complicated it becomes. I personally think that pressure should have come earlier in the negotiations. We could have saved more lives,” she says.

“And this was the subject of our conversations. I traveled twice to Qatar to meet with the leadership of Hamas, to sit with Ismail Haniyeh at the time. I sat with Prime Minister Netanyahu myself. These were tough discussions, and trust me, we are very frank in these meetings. This is why these meetings have to always remain confidential,” she adds.

The Red Cross faced intense criticism in Israel during the war for its failure to gain access to hostages, some of whom were injured in the October 7, 2023 massacre, were elderly, or suffered from chronic illnesses.

Riyadh airport temporarily shut after serious attack earlier today

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Operations at the Riyadh airport were temporarily suspended after it was targeted in an attack today, the Saudi civil aviation authority says, reporting several people injured in the incident.

The Riyadh airport “was targeted in an attack on Saturday afternoon, October 10, 2026, amid continued attacks targeting the kingdom’s civil aviation facilities,” the statement reads. “The attack left several people injured, with the number still being assessed.”

IDF targets meeting of Hamas Nukhba members, Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza City strikes

The IDF says it killed several members of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force in a strike on a meeting in Gaza City earlier today, along with a Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander in a separate strike.

The military identifies two of the Hamas operatives as Muad Mazen Hamza Hassouna and Muhammad Riyad Khader Arahim.

Palestinian media reports that the strike, which took place near Gaza City’s Panda Mall, killed four people and wounded six others.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander, Muhammad Walid Saadi Nakhala, was killed in the Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City, the IDF says.

ביממה האחרונה: צה"ל תקף מספר מחבלי נוח'בה בעיר עזה ומפקד במערך הנ"ט של הגא"פ

מוקדם יותר היום, צה"ל תקף בעת פגישה של מחבלי נוח'בה בעיר עזה.

בתקיפה חוסלו מספר מחבלים בזרוע הצבאית של ארגון הטרור חמאס, בהם:
* מעאד מאזן חמזה חסונה – מחבל נוח'בה בזרוע הצבאית של ארגון הטרור חמאס
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— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) October 10, 2026

Iran’s Guards says oil tanker exploded after hitting mine in Hormuz

Ships are anchored off the coast of Khasab in Oman’s Musandam Governorate, near the Strait of Hormuz, on October 2, 2026. (AFP)

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says that an oil tanker exploded and caught fire after hitting a naval mine while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media reports.

The Guards do not specify the tanker’s name or flag.

Lebanon arrests two Hezbollah suspects secretly transporting explosives

Displaced people hold Iranian and Hezbollah flags as they drive by a building damaged in an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanon village of Chehabiyeh, June 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanese authorities arrested two suspected Hezbollah members accused of secretly transporting half a ton of explosives, a judicial source tells AFP.

According to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the two men were caught Thursday afternoon at a security checkpoint in Dahr al-Baidar in Lebanon’s east, near a road linking the country with Syria.

They were in a car heading toward Beirut.

After searching the vehicle, security forces seized “250 kilograms (551 pounds) of TNT-type explosives and 250 kilograms of C4-type, a highly explosive substance,” the source says.

Based on initial investigations, one of the suspects is the son of a Hezbollah official, and the other is also a member of the Iran-backed militant group, according to the source.

The explosives’ destination remains unknown, the source adds.

Lebanese authorities have not confirmed the source’s information.

Reported transcript quotes Netanyahu’s chief of staff trying in vain to persuade stenographer to falsify PM’s Oct. 7 phone records

Tzachi Braverman attends a Memorial Day ceremony at the Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery in Tel Aviv, April 21, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, tried to persuade a stenographer to falsify the prime minister’s phone records from the morning of October 7, 2023, and was told twice that doing so was illegal, according to a transcript of a conversation reported by Channel 12.

Braverman stands accused of tampering with the phone records in January 2024, three months after the Hamas-led invasion and massacre. The prime minister’s ex-military secretary, Avi Gil, said in a pair of interviews earlier this week that Braverman sought to doctor the time when Netanyahu first spoke with Gil on his secure line, changing it from the actual time of 6:40 a.m. to 6:29 a.m., the moment the attack started.

According to the transcript, Braverman spoke with a secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office in January 2024 and urged her to change the timestamp, which she refused to do.

“Wow, how nice, look at how sharp he is,” Braverman said of Netanyahu while reading the transcript of the premier’s 6:40 a.m. phone call, according to Channel 12. “This was at 6:29, not 6:40. Change the time.”

“I’m not allowed to. Look, it’s computerized. I can’t touch it,” she reportedly replied.

Braverman then falsely said he was on the call and again instructed her to change the timestamp, according to the network, leading her to reply, “Tzachi, I’m prohibited from changing it.”

Braverman then reportedly changed the timestamp by hand.

Gil has stated that he woke Netanyahu up via a WhatsApp call at 6:29, as Hamas began its attack, and told the prime minister to get to a secure line. He called Netanyahu a second time, at 6:40 on the secure line, to give the prime minister the information he had gathered about the attack, and told him, “We are at war.”

In response to the report, Braverman’s representative tells the network that Braverman never claimed to have been on a 6:29 call, and says Gil neglected to tell investigators that Gil and Braverman spoke at 6:33, and that Gil told Braverman in the 6:33 call about Gil’s 6:29 call with Netanyahu.

Police are said to have enough evidence to indict Braverman for tampering with phone records, but he claims he did so because he thought the timestamp was an error. That claim may be hard to disprove, making an indictment unlikely.

Braverman is also facing separate charges in connection with a classified document leak.

Trump says he will consider joining Saudi strikes on Houthis after airport attack

US President Donald Trump walks to board Air Force One with Col. Brandon Westling, Commander 89th Air Wing Group, right, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, October 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump says he would soon decide whether to join Saudi strikes against Iran-backed Houthis after an attack on Riyadh’s international airport.

“We may. We’re going to look at it. We just found out about the recent attack, so we’ll make a decision,” Trump tells reporters at the White House. “We move very quickly.”

Palestinian freelancer wins Bayeux’s prestigious photography award

BEYEUX, France — Palestinian freelancer Mahmoud Abu Hamda wins the photography category in the prestigious Bayeux award for war correspondents for his work from Gaza.

As well as the top prize, Hamda, based in the Gaza Strip, also wins the Public’s Choice award for his reportage “What the war leaves behind it.”

He is not at the ceremony in Bayeux, northwest France, but sends a video message to the event.

The Washington Post, NPR (National Public Radio, US) and CNN win the top prizes in the print, radio and television categories for reports from Ukraine, Gaza and the West Bank respectively.

Veteran BBC correspondent Lyse Doucet is the president of the jury.

Gantz, Winter insist they will continue running, despite poor survey results

People of Israel party chairman Ofer Winter (C) and party member Yoseph Haddad (C) tour the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem ahead of the upcoming general elections, September 17, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Blue and White Chairman Benny Gantz and People of Israel party chairman Ofer Winter both insist that they plan to continue running in the elections, despite polls showing that they are unlikely to pass the minimum election threshold.

In a video statement released this evening, Gantz says he will continue running “until the end,” and rejects charges that voters would be wasting their ballots.

“We are on the road to disaster. We must stop and save the country,” he says. “I do not belong to any bloc; anyone who claims that I waste votes is lying and afraid. ”

Winter also insists that he won’t drop out of the race in a Hebrew interview on “Meet the Press.”

“Regardless of the polls, we’re running to the end,” he says. “I’ve never abandoned my fighters, and neither have these fighters who serve. I won’t abandon them; we’re fighting for them.”

Winter reiterates that he plans to recommend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection, and ruled out joining a government led by former IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot, saying he considers him a “danger to the State of Israel.”

Winter says, however, that he would not accept a government dependent on the Haredi parties. If his demands were not met, he says, “Then I’m telling you Bibi can take a hike. I mean that seriously. I don’t work for any man.”

Election polls have consistently shown Gantz’s party failing to garner the minimum number of votes to appear in the next Knesset. Winter’s party has hovered around the threshold in polls, with different polls showing it above or below the minimum number of votes.

New footage shows Iran’s ‘destruction of Israel’ clock still ticking down

Iran's “Destruction of Israel” countdown clock in Palestine Square, Tehran, as broadcast on October 10, 2026. (Channel 12 screenshot)

Iran’s clock counting down to Israel’s purported destruction is still ticking away in Tehran’s Palestine Square, as seen in footage broadcast tonight on Israeli television.

Defense Minister Israel Katz said in June 2025 that the IDF was targeting the clock among other targets in air attacks.

Channel 12 shows the clock ticking down to Israel’s ostensible 2040 demise, as predicted by the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, in footage that it says was newly filmed by “Ali,” an Iranian who has intermittently filmed in Iran for the outlet.

The clock was unveiled in 2017. Khamenei was killed in a targeted strike by Israel on February 28, of this year.

Report: Sirens in Arab al-Aramshe may have been false alarm; security forces still searching area

Following the sirens that sounded some two hours ago in Arab al-Aramshe warning of a suspected hostile unmanned aircraft infiltration, Channel 12 reports that the unidentified object may have been a bag.

The report describes the object as small and moving slowly.

Local security teams from nearby communities and IDF troops are reportedly still searching the area. The military has not ruled out a security incident, the report says.

According to Channel 12, there are currently no restrictions on civilian activity following the red alert siren.

The IDF says it identified an aerial object, but a search by troops have yet to find anything suspicious.

בעקבות זיהוי בחמ"ל יישובי של עצם זר, ככל הנראה כמו שקית, שהפעיל אזעקות בערב אל-עראמשה שבגליל המערבי, הופעל נוהל "אביר לילה ב׳" צבאי ביישובים בגליל המערבי. הזיהוי עדיין אינו ודאי והפרטים בבדיקה. אין השפעה על המרחב האזרחי, הסריקות נמשכות בגזרה. (צילום: חדר מצב ארצי) pic.twitter.com/ihy5sv4ucg

— אור רביד | Or Ravid (@OrRavid) October 10, 2026

Boy George: ‘I’ve had threats’ over planned concert in Israel; still trying to get a band together for the shows

Singer Boy George is interviewed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

British singer Boy George tells Channel 12 that he has faced threats, professional isolation, and accusations of fascism over his support for Israel.

However, he insists he will perform in the country as scheduled next month despite the backlash.

“I’ve had threats, and I’ve had people defacing my pictures and concert posters,” George says in a television interview. “For me personally, none of those people [attacking me] look like peace.”

Boy George describes long-time peers who abandoned him for his support of Israel.

“Some of these people don’t care about anything,” he says. “Their political views are [fashion brand] Dolce & Gabbana. Suddenly, to have a position on something that they don’t care about makes them so angry.”

He insists that his support for Israel does not mean indifference toward Palestinians, and emphasizes that Jewish people, like everyone else, want to live, celebrate, and feel safe.

“I’ve never ever said I don’t care about Palestine,” he says. “[But] I know Jewish people. I know they want to live.”

Finding musicians willing to join him has proved challenging, he says.

“We’re trying to find a band right now,” he concedes. “It’s a bit problematic. We are trying to find people who are brave enough to come.”

He criticizes what he sees as a culture of silence among younger musicians and promoters who fear career repercussions for expressing political opinions.

“They live in a world with young people, and… it’s like vampire blood,” he says. “They need that blood to survive, so they can’t say what they think.”

Tickets to Boy George’s November 4 concert at Tel Aviv’s Menora Mivtachim Arena are sold out, and he has added a second show, on November 7.

At least two killed in Riyadh airport attack, hospital source says

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — At least two people were killed in an attack on the Riyadh airport, a medical source at a local hospital tells AFP.

The source identifies one of the victims as an Egyptian flight attendant working for a Saudi airline, while the second is a Palestinian with Egyptian travel documents. Another source briefed on the matter, speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed the deaths and the victims’ nationalities.