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IDF blows up Hezbollah’s ‘strategic’ complex beneath south Lebanon’s Ali Taher Ridge:

Using 1,100 tons of explosives, the Israeli military said on Thursday that it had demolished a “strategic” underground facility belonging to the Hezbollah terror group beneath a mountainous ridge in southern Lebanon.

The Ali Taher Ridge is located within Israel’s southern Lebanon buffer zone, near Nabatieh. According to the Israel Defense Forces, the tunnel systems under Ali Taher served as the “nerve center” of the terror group’s Badr regional division — a unit tasked with the area of southern Lebanon that is north of the Litani River.

Seismic systems also detected the explosion as a 4.1-magnitude earthquake, the United States Geological Survey said.

Inside the two tunnels — spanning over two kilometers — troops found dozens of Iranian-made rockets, missiles and drones, along with firearms, anti-tank missiles, and hundreds of mines and other explosives, the military said.

The tunnel also featured “command centers, weapons rooms, generator rooms, living quarters, showers, and a kitchen,” which the IDF said enabled Hezbollah operatives “to conduct fighting and remain there for extended periods.”

... Washington is closely monitoring “calls from Southern Lebanon, where people are demanding their government assert sovereignty and stop Hezbollah from firing and storing weapons in their communities.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-blows-up-hezbollahs-strategic-complex-beneath-south-lebanons-ali-taher-ridge/   

Pakistan Warns Iran to Keep the Houthis Away from Saudi Arabia:

Pakistan delivered a warning to Iran on Wednesday that if Tehran’s terrorist proxies in Yemen, the Houthis, continue attacking cities and oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan may be obliged to intervene under its defense pact with the Saudis.

Pakistan gave notice to Iran the day after Houthi insurgents launched drone and missile attacks against four cities in Saudi Arabia, damaging oil infrastructure and wounding dozens of civilians.

Saudi forces, working with the internationally-recognized government of Yemen, responded with airstrikes and ground action against the Houthis, who captured Yemen’s capital city of Sanaa and much other territory in 2014.

In a television interview on Wednesday, Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said that further Houthi attacks could trigger the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, a pact Pakistan signed with Saudi Arabia and Turkey in August. The pact includes a mutual defense commitment similar to NATO Article V.

“An aggression on one country will be considered an aggression on all three countries,” Asif said. “There is no ambiguity or doubt. Unprovoked aggression or spillover into Saudi Arabia will definitely make this agreement operational.”

A senior diplomatic source told Reuters the Pakistani government conveyed this message to Tehran privately within the past 24 hours, and advised the Iranians to pull the Houthis back from attacking Saudi Arabia. The response from Tehran was reportedly: “Iran does not control the Houthis.”

Two Iranian sources told Reuters that Iran actually instructed the Houthis to attack Saudi Arabia last week, promised them additional funding and weapons if they did, and sent senior officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to coordinate the operations.

Although Houthi officials said on Thursday they did not intend to close the Red Sea or Bab el-Mandeb Strait to any ships except those from Saudi Arabia, Krieg predicted Houthi capture of the strait could “effectively connect the Hormuz and Red Sea crises into one global energy-security crisis.”

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2026/09/10/pakistan-warns-iran-to-keep-the-houthis-away-from-saudi-arabia/   

For the first time in thousands of years, the shofar sounds on the Temple Mount:

Hundreds of Jews stood on the Temple Mount before dawn on the second day of Rosh Hashanah this year, and by the time they left, something had happened there that Rabbi Josh Wander believes had not happened in thousands of years: the shofar sounded on the Mount together with the silver Temple trumpets. Wander was there for both days of the holiday, and described what he saw in an interview with Rabbi Aharon Sokol on the podcast Parsha Inspired, an account independently corroborated by police statements and other eyewitnesses. 

The second day, a Sunday, brought Wander and hundreds of others to the Temple Mount itself....  What followed, Wander said, had never happened before. “The police allowed us up in groups of thirty. What was unusual this year is that, usually, they send up smaller groups and rush them off the Mount, bringing up the next group as each one leaves. This time, they just kept adding groups; thirty, then another thirty, and another, and another.” He estimated at least 120 people at the first minyan of the morning, with other counts running as high as 200, and roughly 600 total ascending over the course of the day.  “We had Jews, maybe for the first time in many, many years, going up to the Temple Mount and praying freely, in large groups, with their prayer books and their prayer shawls,” he said. The service itself ran nearly four hours. “I don’t think we’ve ever had such a large group praying for that long on the Temple Mount,” Wander said.

Then came the shofar. This time, worshippers also smuggled up the silver Temple trumpets meant to accompany the shofar. “According to halacha, you’re supposed to have one shofar and two silver trumpets, blowing on either side of it,” he explained.

“In previous years, even if someone managed to sneak up a shofar and blow it, they’d immediately be tackled by police and removed from the Mount,” he said. “This year was different; the police were kind to us. Even though they briefly detained the people who brought up the shofar and the trumpets, they let us complete each round first.” Three full rounds of shofar and trumpets sounded together during the service, Wander said, each one allowed to finish before anyone was detained. “We managed, I think, for the first time in thousands of years, to blow shofar together with the silver trumpets on the Temple Mount.”

Wander closed with a blessing he says he repeats three times a day: that God “should open our eyes to see the redemption unfolding before us.” He added: “We pray not only that the redemption should happen, but that we should be aware that it’s happening.  I think that if most Jews, and most people in the world, were aware of all the incredible Temple-related and redemption-related projects going on right now, simultaneously, it would become obvious to them that we’re living in an unprecedented, historic time.”

https://israel365news.com/421250/for-the-first-time-in-thousands-of-years-the-shofar-sounds-on-the-temple-mount/   

Ex-Shin Bet official: Israelis, carry your guns on Yom Kippur:

A former senior Shin Bet official issued a public warning Thursday urging Israelis who hold gun permits to carry their weapons during the upcoming Yom Kippur holiday, saying they could help defend worshippers against potential terror attacks.

In a Thursday morning interview broadcast on Radio 103 FM, Arik Barbing, who served as head of the Shin Bet’s Cyber Division as well as its Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria district operations, urged Israelis not to let their guard down on the holiest day of the Jewish year.

Yom Kippur begins at sundown on Sunday, September 20, and is traditionally marked by large prayer services in synagogues across Israel. Barbing cautioned that the services could potentially be targeted by terrorists.

https://worldisraelnews.com/ex-shin-bet-official-israelis-carry-your-guns-on-yom-kippur/