York is Cnn Newsroom with Paula Newton hello, and a warm welcome to Cnn Newsroom. Im Paula Newton in New York at 9 00 a. M. And beiruts where israel is carrying out new Air Strikes. And fears are growing that the exchange of Missile Fire between Israel And Hezbollah could turn into a ground war. Now us officials say israeli troops have mobilized from israeli Air Defenses police say pieces of an intercepted missile crashed in the suburbs all this is happening after israel killed Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah, prompting new fears of a wider war in the region. As paula is pledging to continue its fight while iran says, israel will face Quote A Crushing Blow for the assassination, israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country is now one step closer to achieving its military goals. Who gummi khadem, the elimination of nasrallah is a necessary condition for achieving the goals. We have said, returning the residents of the north safely to their homes and changing the Balance
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Now and see how much you can save im Elizabeth Wagmeister in Los Angeles in this is cnn ever want to thank so much for joining us. Im Jessica Dean dean in washington alongside my colleague, jim sciutto, who is in Tel Aviv. And we begin in The Middle East where fears of a wider war are growing. Israel and hezbollah, again trading fire across the lebanon border today. And theres this, israel also attacking targets in houthi controlled parts of yemen the idf saying it attacked our station and a seaport. We learned just moments ago, president biden will be speaking with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. Lets send it over now to jim, who is in Tel Aviv and jim, i know youve been monitoring so during all of these developments, what are your takeaways its a multifront war, right at each of those fronts is growing. Israel and hezbollah. They continue to fire at each other today. Of course, the most extensive attacks or by israeli forces on targets inside lebanon. And now you have isra
Freshmen israel is on the move. We win. We are determined to continue to strike our enemies return our residents to their homes and returned all of our hostages our nic robertson has the latest now from tel aviv, let s talk about hezbollah s response so far, nic and what you re seeing from where you are yeah. The response from hezbollah, not as expected. One of their rockets was either intercepted or came down in the west bank. That s the one that trip i get the alarms in jerusalem. A couple of hours ago, it came down in ms pay highgate. Now, the medical services that when they re after the impacts on the ground, they found no casualties, but at three different locations, they found evidence that either practical or the interceptor missile had, had impacted buildings and there were some fires on the ground. But it s a bit it s odd that the missiles came. There are more fired towards jerusalem because it was expected that it will be central israel. That s densely populated cities like t
Anticipation is there will be a new wave of israeli strikes on the Southern Suburbs. This after the arabic spokesman for the israeli military put out a tweet warning, the residents of Southern Lebanon how valley in the Southern Suburbs of beirut to stay away from any hezbollah facilities. And given that hezbollah is a very secretive organization, most people dont actually know if there might be any hezbollah facilities in their immediate area. So the assumption is that if you are in one of those areas, you should simply leave and what weve seen is that tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people have left those the areas specified by the israelis before the war, the population of those three areas in that tweet was around 2 Million in people according to lebanese officials in just the last few days almost half 1 Million people have fled and that was a number before We Saw this Mass Exodus from the Southern Suburbs of beirut. Now, were getting a new Death Toll from the le