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Speaker 1: From The Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm Christanamio.

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Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, October two. A Sydney accountant who installed dummy

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Speaker 1: directors in dozens of companies has been charged with sixteen

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Speaker 1: criminal offenses by the corporate regulator. Wayne Fraser faced the

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Speaker 1: Downing Center District Court on Tuesday, where he's accused of

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Speaker 1: making or authorizing false or misleading statements in documents lodged

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Speaker 1: with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. That story's live

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Speaker 1: right now at the Australian dot Com dot a U.

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Speaker 1: Hundreds of Iranian rockets have rained down over parts of

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Speaker 1: Israel in a retaliatory attack for the death of Hesbala

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Speaker 1: leader Hassan Nasrallah. It comes less than a day after

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Speaker 1: the Israeli Defense Force launched a targeted incursion of southern Lebanon.

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Speaker 1: In Australia, a political row has erupted over the way

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Speaker 1: police handle breaches of our new speech laws after protesters

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Speaker 1: waved flags emblazoned with Hesbela insignia. In today's episode Why

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Speaker 1: Nobody Can Agree on how we police hatred at mosques

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Speaker 1: across Western Sydney On Monday, night, Muslim clerics preached to

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Speaker 1: hundreds of worshippers.

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Speaker 2: He decided sam As said Hassana.

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Speaker 1: They were reflecting on the death of Hassan Nasrallah, the

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Speaker 1: charismatic but reclusive leader of Lebanese terrorist organization Hesbla, who

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Speaker 1: was killed in a targeted Israeli air strike days earlier.

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Speaker 1: They called him a history maker. They said his blood

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Speaker 1: was not shed in vain Muslimin. They called him a

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Speaker 1: support of the oppressed and an inspiration for future generations.

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Speaker 3: Enough Sa and Nashadahinaya Trucuna head Runa, Yet Trucuna held

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Speaker 3: for whom erstan hurly than Minacierra Saliha Lembardi, him kron

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Speaker 3: Waharakatan Juzu RuSHA Lisa man In.

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Speaker 1: The services were so well attended that worshipers spilled out

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Speaker 1: onto the streets surrounding the Al Raman Mosque in Kingsgrove.

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Speaker 1: Pictures posted to the mosque social media profiles showed children

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Speaker 1: wearing clothing emblazoned with Hesbola insignia.

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Speaker 2: Alat was As.

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Speaker 1: Nadi yak.

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Speaker 2: A lot.

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Speaker 1: On Tuesday, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke slammed the commemorations,

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Speaker 1: joining a growing chorus concerned about public support for Hesbollah.

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Speaker 4: Well, the government doesn't mourn him for one minute, not

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Speaker 4: for one minute. But I'll tell you there are civilians

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Speaker 4: who have been killed who we mourn.

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Speaker 1: In the wake of Nazalla's death, supporters rallied in Melbourne

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Speaker 1: and Sydney. They carried Hesbala flags and portraits of its

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Speaker 1: slain leader, which is illegal under Australian law. They chanted

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Speaker 1: labaika ja Nasrallah in Arabic, which translates to at your

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Speaker 1: service Nasrallah or here i am Nazreelah. The Australian Federal

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Speaker 1: Police said it'll consider prosecuting at least six people who

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Speaker 1: attended the rally in Melbourne for displaying pro hesbela material.

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Speaker 1: If convicted, they could face up to twelve months in prison.

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Speaker 1: But there's a catch. We've used an AI voice generator

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Speaker 1: to read a state meant from the Australian Federal Police.

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Speaker 5: The mere public display of a prohibited symbol on its

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Speaker 5: own does not meet the threshold of a Commonwealth offense.

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Speaker 5: The Criminal Code sets out very specific elements that must

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Speaker 5: be met in order to charge an individual with a

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Speaker 5: prohibited symbol offense.

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Speaker 1: Basically, even if the cops deem the behavior is illegal,

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Speaker 1: they may not be able to do anything about it.

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Speaker 1: Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says that's not good enough. He's

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Speaker 1: called for Parliament to be recalled to criminalize these kinds

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Speaker 1: of public displays support for terrorist organizations. Home Affairs Minister

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Speaker 1: Tony Burke said he'll consider canceling the visas of anyone

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Speaker 1: found to be inciting discord in Australia.

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Speaker 4: We do have a higher standard in Australia a visa

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Speaker 4: as to what's expected. If you're on a visa in

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Speaker 4: anyone's country, you're there as a guest, and inciting discord

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Speaker 4: is a reason for me to refuse visas and a

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Speaker 4: reason for me to cancel.

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Speaker 1: But Attorney General Mark Dreyfuss, who's the nation's most senior

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Speaker 1: legal figure, says that's not their job.

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Speaker 6: Mark Dreyfus's position is that the Labor government passed new

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Speaker 6: hate speech laws at the end of last year, and

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Speaker 6: it's up to the police to enforce those laws.

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Speaker 1: Joe Kelly is The Australian's National affairs editor, and.

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Speaker 6: Mark Dreyfus says it's not the role of the political system.

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Speaker 6: Politicians or MPs to direct the police to make arrests.

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Speaker 6: So essentially he's trying to say that Peter Dutton has

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Speaker 6: gone a little bit too far.

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Speaker 1: This is a tense political moment for Australia.

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Speaker 6: And Peter Dutton is making the case that we shouldn't

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Speaker 6: be living in an Australian society where people can go

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Speaker 6: out on the streets and protest and display the symbols

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Speaker 6: of terrorist organizations that are prohibited. He contends that it

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Speaker 6: is within the scope of those new hate speech laws

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Speaker 6: for peace to be arrested because of those actions, and

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Speaker 6: he says if there is any doubt about that, then

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Speaker 6: the laws need to be strengthened urgently. But I think

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Speaker 6: the broader issue is that Peter Dutton is now constructing

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Speaker 6: a political narrative going all the way back to October nine,

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Speaker 6: when there were those protests outside the Opera House, which

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Speaker 6: took place before Israel had retaliated in response to the

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Speaker 6: October seven attacks, and basically said we haven't seen sufficient leadership,

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Speaker 6: that the government hasn't been doing and saying the right things,

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Speaker 6: and so leadership takes many manifestations. It's the position that

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Speaker 6: leaders adopt, it's what they say it sets the tone,

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Speaker 6: and Peter Dutton is effectively saying they've set the wrong

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Speaker 6: tone and everything that has transpired since October seven has

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Speaker 6: been influenced by that tone. So I think that's the

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Speaker 6: central political dragon that Labour's seeking to contend with at

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Speaker 6: the moment, this perception that's been created that they haven't

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Speaker 6: been tough enough. And so if you look at how

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Speaker 6: many arrests have been made by people protesting, it's been

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Speaker 6: reported that there have been two people who are protesting

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Speaker 6: displaying Nazi imagery, but not really any arrests made in

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Speaker 6: relation to what we're seeing with anti Semitism, support for

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Speaker 6: terrorist organizations.

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Speaker 2: And the like.

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Speaker 1: Coming up inside Israel's move on Lebanon. Subscribers to The

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Speaker 1: Australian are first to hear breaking news out of the

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Speaker 1: Middle East. Check us out at the Australian dot com

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Speaker 1: dot au and we'll be back after this break. For

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Speaker 1: almost a year, ever since the Gaza based terrorist group

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Speaker 1: Hamas launched a deadly attack on southern Israel, Hezbollah has

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Speaker 1: been firing rockets across the border, thousands of them. In

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Speaker 1: that time. Israel's been planning on Tuesday morning in defiance

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Speaker 1: of calls for a ceasefire by the United States and others.

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Speaker 1: It took its opportunity as supporters mauned the death of

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Speaker 1: terrorist leader Hassan Nasraala, the Israeli Defense Force began an

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Speaker 1: anticipated ground incursion of parts of Lebanon. In the early

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Speaker 1: hours of Tuesday morning local time, the IDF confirmed it

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Speaker 1: would embark on limited, localized and targeted raids over the

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Speaker 5: These operations were approved and carried out in accordance with

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Speaker 5: the decision of the political echelon.

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Speaker 1: Israel also launched air strikes on Lebanon's capital city, Beirut,

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Speaker 1: where it says it struck weapons manufacturing facilities, and Damascus

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Speaker 1: in nearby Syria, where it was reportedly targeting Major General

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Speaker 1: Maha al Asad, the brother of President Bashah al Assad.

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Speaker 1: Assyrian journalist reported on the social platform x normally known

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Speaker 1: as Twitter that the bombing targeted a meeting of military

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Speaker 1: leaders between Hesbola and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, with which

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Speaker 1: al Assade was reportedly affiliated. Around the same time, the

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Speaker 1: United States moved its military forces into place in hopes

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Speaker 1: of deterring a counter attack by Iran. Hesbola's powerful backer.

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Speaker 1: Fears of retaliation by Iran ramped up following the death

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Speaker 1: of Nazrula, who they considered a close ally. As the

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Speaker 1: raids got underway in Lebanon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnyahu

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Speaker 1: sent a message to the Iranian people.

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Speaker 2: With every passing moment, the regime is bringing you, the

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Speaker 2: noble Persian people, closer to the abyss. Iran's tyrants don't

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Speaker 2: care about your future, but you do when Iran is

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Speaker 2: finally free, and that moment will come a lot sooner

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Speaker 2: than people think everything will be different.

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Speaker 1: Overnight, Iran's Revolutionary Guard fired hundreds of missiles at Israel,

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Speaker 1: with artillery and shrapnel reportedly raining down on Tel Aviv,

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Speaker 1: as well as areas of the Holy City of Jerusalem

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Speaker 1: and southern Israel. The Revolutionary Guards said in a statement

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Speaker 1: that it had targeted the heart of the occupied territories

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Speaker 1: in retaliation for Nasraela's death, as well as the death

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Speaker 1: wasn't aware of any casualties from the hour long attack

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Speaker 1: after Israelis were ordered into bomb shelters around the country,

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Speaker 1: and it issued a warning. It said this will have consequences.

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Speaker 1: We have plans we will act, deciding where and when,

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Speaker 1: but Iran's Revolutionary Guard said in a statement it would

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Speaker 1: carry out crushing attacks if those plans came to fruition.

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Speaker 1: The White House confirmed US President Joe Biden had ordered

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Speaker 1: US military to assist Israel in shooting down missiles. Shortly

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Speaker 1: before the miss campaign, approximately ten people were killed in

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Speaker 1: a terror attack on a light rail station in the

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Speaker 1: Ja'far area of Tel Aviv. Israeli police said two gunmen

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Speaker 1: carrying assault rifles had been neutralized. For its part, Hesbela

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Speaker 1: in northern Israel. They'd previously been designated closed military zones

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Speaker 1: by the IDF. The statement said the rockets and artillery

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Speaker 1: shells had been fired in solidarity with the Palestinian people

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Speaker 1: in the Gaza Strip and in support of their valiant

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Speaker 1: and honorable resistance to IDF forces which have been operating

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Speaker 1: in the region for almost a year. Second in command

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Speaker 1: Nam Kassem said Hesbola is ready for a ground engagement

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Speaker 1: and has no qualms about a wider regional conflict. The

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Speaker 1: assault continued in Gaza, too, where the IDF says it

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Speaker 1: conducted a precise strike on a mass command and control

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Speaker 1: center occupied by militants. Joe Kelly is The Australian's National

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Speaker 1: Affairs editor. This situation is developing quickly. You can catch

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Speaker 1: up on all the latest from the Middle East anytime

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