A large scale attack. A large scale attack. It said more than 200 sites had been hit and thousands of Rocket Launchers destroyed. These are live pictures from the israel lebanon border. Hezbollah said it had still fired more than 300 missiles towards israel in what it described as its first phase of response to the assassination of a commander last month. Lieutenant colonel Nadav Shoshani is an Idf Spokesperson and told me why they had carried out the strikes. Weve Hit Thousands of Rocket Launcher barrels and weve thwarted hundreds of rockets and uavs in the air on their way to israeli communities in northern and central israel. With me now is our middle east editor sebastian usher. In your view, how significant is what has happened today . I in your view, how significant is what has happened today . I think we dont really know what has happened today . I think we dont really know the what has happened today . I think we dont really know the significance dont really know the significan
In retaliation for the assassination of one of its top commanders in lebanon last month. Jon donnison has the latest from jerusalem. 4 30 in the morning, and israels biggest attack on hezbollah since the full scale war back in 2006. Its military says around 100 fighter jets hit hezbollah targets across southern lebanon, in what israel says were pre emptive strikes. And the barrage went on and on. A short while ago, the idf identified hezbollah Terrorist Organisation preparing to fire missiles, rockets towards israeli territory. In a self defence act to remove these threats, the idf is striking Terror Targets in lebanon, from Which Hezbollah was planning to launch their attacks on israeli civilians. For its part, hezbollah says it fired more than 300 rockets and missiles across the border. Many were shot down by israels Missile Defence system. But some got through. This house was hit in the northern coastal town of acre. Translation we didnt even get| the chance to close the closet door
If. [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] will we begin with a fox news alert, a live look at the border between israel and lebanon after heavy rocket fire overnight between the idf and the iranianbacked terror group hezbollah. Pete if jeff paul joins us now from tel aviv with the latest. Good morning, jeff. Reporter yeah, good morning. Israel finds itself in a heightened state of tension after the fighting between Israeli Forces and hezbollah escalated to proportions we havent seen in quite some time. Officials here in israel have lifted some of the Restrictions Hay placed on the public, but they are very much watching and waiting to see if hezbollah will strike again or if this latest escalation was enough of a response. This all a started early this morning local time here in israel as Israeli Forces launched a wave of airstrikes targeting hezbollah infrastructure using 100fighter jets. This was a preemptive strike after is reilly intelligence received Information He
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