Israel security · October 2026

In October 2026, a FlyDubai flight bound for Israel was diverted to Saudi Arabia after a pilot stabbed another pilot in the cockpit. Passengers intervened to stop the attack, according to headlines. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu called the stabbed pilot a "true hero" and said the pilot may have tried to crash the plane. Netanyahu also said it was too early to determine who was behind the incident, and separately claimed the co-pilot was an Omani radical Islamist. (ongoing coverage) The Israeli military said that 170 people killed in Gaza who had been named as journalists belonged to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The Israeli military said it killed two men in Gaza strikes who took part in the October 7 attacks, including one who abducted hostages from Be'eri, and that 70 operatives were killed in Gaza last month, 17 of whom took part in the October 7 attacks. Israeli settlers killed a Palestinian in the West Bank, officials said. Netanyahu said Israel warned Britain about an Iranian terror plot before an incident at an RAF airbase, and forty-five Israeli tourists were rescued amid renewed fighting in Ethiopia.