Israel urged its citizens to head to safety and move into shelters. The idf said it would do what it could to protect people. The difference between this attack and the one that israel was subjected to by iran in april is the type of missiles that are being fired and the length of time it is taking them to reach israel. In april, it took several hours, because drones and Cruise Missiles were fired first and that gave Allied Forces from the us and the uk the chance to get their planes in the sky and shoot them down. Tonight it happened more quickly and we have seen the dramatic pictures of Iron Dome interceptions and people rushing for cover in Tel Aviv and just liam. Jerusalem. Lets speak now to Tom Bateman, whos in washington for us this evening. This was launched very quickly . To this was launched very quickly . Trr give you an idea of the sense of urgency here, we had been expecting a briefing from officials in the next few minutes, that has been delayed. The secretary of state, an
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To their homes in the north. Meanwhile, the deputy chief of hezbollah, naim qaissem, said the groups fighters are ready to confront an invasion. He acknowledged the assassination of leader, hassan nasrallah, was a big blow but said all fallen commanders would soon be replaced. We have corresponded around the world reporting on this developing story. Anna foster is in beirut, lucy williams is in israel, and joe photo is in jerusalem and tom bateman is in washington. Firstly let s hear from lucy. We ve been hearing helicopters overhead for a while now and also the sound of artillery, some distance away, earlier, a series of loud explosions that we heard here close to the border as israel confirmed that it had launched what it s calling limited and targeted ground raids terrorist targets in the area. It s not clear at this stage what sort of scale form those raids are taking but we have witnessed a buildup of troops and tanks here at the border over the last few days, we saw a couple of
Resource tonight and angry president biden responds to donald trump accusing him of lying about the government s response to hurricane helene. Politics colliding with a natural disaster. As officials are still searching for survivors tonight. Meanwhile, israel has just launched a ground offensive into lebanon where airstrikes are lighting up the skies from beirut to damascus, or sit in teams are live in the middle east and as trump is calling for the police to get violent and calling his opponent. And i m quoting him now, mentally disabled holds a big name republican will join me as he is endorsing vice president harris. I m kaitlan collins, and this is the source tonight one of the deadliest storms and are nascent nation s history is colliding with the closest election in modern history. But we cannot let that a clubs what is happening tonight inside these states, inside north carolina and georgia is a hundreds of people who are still missing or unaccounted for this evening. The death
One of the founders of the iranbacked Militant Group, which has been a major antagonist of israel for decades behind many deadly Terror Attacks as well. A short time ago, i asked a spokesman for the israeli defense forces if he believes that Nasrallahs Death has somehow weakened Irans Power in the region heres what he said i think wed be very cautious before saying that he run has been weakened. Again, rockets went off just a few minutes ago, just over my home On My Way here, there was a rocket that was intercepted and i had to do with my children who were very scared. Were not going to wage that iran, which is the largest supporter of Terror Tourism in the entire world, is weakened. What they do know is that theyve been hiding for years behind the proxies, being able to destroy an attack israel, terrorize israeli civilians without paying a price i see now as the proxy hezbollah, which has forced people out of their home and tortured their own people. And it all their Weaponry Bind the