Welcome to our viewers, joining us from around The World. Im Becky Anderson in Tel Aviv, where israel is vowing that iran will pay for launching a barrage of roughly 200 missiles into israeli territory. And Im Rosemary Church In Atlanta breaking down the key takeaways from the first and only us Vice President ial Debate Fighting between the Israeli Military and the iranbacked militant group, hezbollah. Less than a day after tehran launched its largest ever aerial attack against israel. These are live pictures from beirut, lebanon where smoke is hanging over the sky worthy new strikes launched overnight by the idf against hezbollah targets in beiruts Southern Suburbs after issuing Evacuation Orders for several neighborhoods, Sand Hezbollah have claimed to have Hit Bag were a Rocket Attack on an Israeli Military barracks along the lebanese israeli border. And well get to that in a moment. Meanwhile, both Israel And Iran are trying to control the narrative over the impact of tech runs unp
In northern israel. The us Defense Secretary Lloyd austin has given his support to israels objectives after speaking with with his counterpart, yoav gallant. Mr austin also warned iran it faced Grave Consequences if it carried out a direct attack against israel in support of hezbollah. This is the scene in beirut where explosions have continued overnight in the capitals southern suburbs. Israel had ordered the evacuation of 3 areas. These pictures show explosions and smoke rising near beirut international airport. There have also been reports of an Air Strike hitting a crowded palestinian Refugee Camp near the southern lebanese city of sidon. Syrian State Media says that 3 people have been killed by israeli strikes on the capital damascus. Israel is yet to comment on the reports. Meanwhile, the Uk Government has charted a flight to help british nationals leave lebanon scheduled to leave beirut on wednesday. In a moment, we will hear from my colleague anna foster, who is in beirut but f
Defences firing missiles at incoming missiles and it looks like, i did not see in the explosions above us In Jerusalem but there may have been because it is partly cloudy here and some of them, some of what was going on behind the clouds, it went on for about 20 minutes and probably more than that around half an hour above us and suddenly, it went quiet. And for the last a0 minutes or so, half an hour or for the last a0 minutes or so, halfan hour orso, for the last a0 minutes or so, half an hour or so, theres been nothing but the israeli military saying that they do not see any more threats over israeli skies of the moment and people coming out of their shelters. And saying that a lot of missiles were fired at israel and a lot of them were intercepted, they do not say how many but some of them, they say some may have gotten through but the ones that they did, did not leave any serious casualties, only two people in Tel Aviv with slight injuries. Beyond that, there have been no injuries
Middle east very closely. The united states is committed to Israels Defense. We are watching developments, as i said, very carefully this morning. U. S. Officials tell Nbc News they expect this iranian response to involve more fire power. Israel is trying to push hezbollah forces north. The israeli defense Forces Spokesperson announced israel uncovered Hezbollah Tunnels in Southern Lebanon. One of the buildings that our troops raided, we found proof of this. This is a map that hezbollah planned to give its terrorists at the time of a widescale invasion of israel. It was to cover out a massacre in israels north. Joining me from jerusalem is nbcs Erin Mclaughlin. Also with is monica alba. Monica, what are you hearing from the White House . The State Department ordered all u. S. Government employees and their families to shelter in place and that this is supposed by in response to the killing of nasrallah on friday in a massive Air Strike by israel as well as previous fronts to hezbollah
Your people back into their homes, you dont escalate to deescalate. And obviously now, with the iranian retaliation, israelis are in their shelters as they go into the new years holiday weekend. Ben . Yeah. I think, you know, since October 7th, the Biden Administration has had a number of goals, one was to provide support to israel as it aims to go after hamas, but then also one of the principle goals of u. S. Diplomacy since October 7th had been avoiding deescalation into lebanon, precisely because i think there was an understanding that lebanon could be kind of the Trip Wire to this broader regional war that essentially, you know, it is one thing if there is a conflict In Gaza, that alone is destabilizing enough and is obviously brought a tremendous Human Toll and has grinded on for a full year. But the concern has always been that if israel launched a Ground Operation and significantly escalated things in lebanon that could draw iran into a conflict in a direct way as were seeing to