Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-04-24 at 22:01

HEADLINES
- US Airlift Keeps Middle East Mission Moving
- Hezbollah Uses Ambulances to Smuggle Weapons
- Metula Flags Protest US Ceasefire Policy

The time is now 10:01 PM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report.

In US Military Role, the USAF airbridge to the Middle East continued at full steam this evening, with a number of C-17s hopping over through Europe.

In the Conflict with Iran and its Regional Proxies, Hezbollah has been caught using ambulances and medical teams as cover to transport weapons and terrorists.

In US Policy Concerning Israel, Many residents of northern Israeli towns are frustrated with the extension of Israel's ceasefire with Lebanon, and some local leaders criticize Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government as yielding to Washington’s influence. On Thursday night, US President Donald Trump announced a three-week extension to the ceasefire, a decision that caught many in the border communities by surprise. In Metula, a border town that recently marked 130 years since its establishment, the council head oversaw the raising of US flags, not as a gesture of alliance but as a protest symbol. Metula's Head of Council, David Azulai, said he believes the Israeli government has surrendered too much autonomy and military leverage to the United States, describing the policy as a return to Israel’s approach of restraint that existed before October 7. “It is sad that the Israeli government and its leader are losing our independence as an independent, sovereign, and democratic state,” Azulai told Ynet. Head of the Shlomi Regional Council, Yossi Ne’eman, said that while residents understand the ceasefire is temporary and hope it can bring stability, they do not see it as a lasting arrangement.

In Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Hate, Melanie Phillips, the renowned British journalist, has spent hundreds of hours in television and radio studios defending Israel and the Jewish people against ignorant and sometimes malicious accusations. From those countless sessions, she has developed the ability to parry and refute the whole spectrum of anti-Israel and often antisemitic charges routinely flung at her: that Israel is an apartheid state, that it committed genocide in Gaza, that it targeted women and particularly children, that it used starvation as a weapon, that it is a colonialist interloper in the Middle East, that Zionism is racism, and much, much more. Now, with blatant antisemitism spreading like wildfire after Israel’s response to the bloodthirsty Hamas attack on Israel of Oct. 7, Phillips has decided to make available to a wider public her expertise in how to counter the anti-Israel arguments currently dominating the democratic Western world.

Thank you for tuning in to this Israel Today: Ongoing War Report update.
I'm Noa Levi. Stay safe and informed.
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https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel/75504
https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel/75505
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-894088
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-893833