This is gps, the Global Public Square welcome to all of you in the united states and Around The World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you, live from new York Today on the program, i bring you interviews with irans new president , Masoud Pezeshkian and with the former british Prime Minister Tony Blair will skip the take this week. Theres simply too much breaking news. Will get straight to it. The crisis in the middle east, it is in uncharted territory. On friday, israel killed a long hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah in a massive strike in the southern suburb forbes of beirut. The attack is part of a recent major escalation of israeli Air Strikes against the iranian Proxy Group in lebanon. More than 1,000 people have been killed since the uptick last week, and Hundreds Of Thousands of lebanese have been displaced the attack on nasrallah was a triumph for israeli intelligence, but it also raises many questions joining me now from Tel Aviv as ronen bergman, Staff Writer for the New York tim
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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
Conflict escalating even more this morning, israeli airstrikes have targeted 140 hezbollah sites in beirut including weapons storage, and missile facilities embedded beneath civilian buildings. Thats according to the idf, the strikes are part of an ongoing campaign by israel to degrade hezbollahs military capability. The lebanese government, responding to the widespread destruction calling for intervention on an international basis, the country has recorded more than 100,000 people have been displaced by the conflict. Authorities claimed that number is actually much higher. Our chief national Security Analyst, Jim Sciutto in Tel Aviv with the very latest jim, tell us first, who was this . Hassan Nasrallah Hassan Nasrallah was a defining figure in hezbollah in the region for more than three decades. Leave getting the terrorist organization, going back to 1992. And we making it over the course of that time into a formidable force, certainly plead with irans help with many Tens Of Thousan
Benjamin netanyahu saying the killing of nasrallah was quote necessary, and that israel will keep fighting we sit up accounts with these responsible for the murder of countless israelis and many citizens of other countries, including hundreds of americans in dozens of freshman, israel is on the move. We win. We are determined to continue to strike at our enemies return our residents to their homes and returned all of our hostages tonight, the u. S. State department is ordering nonemergency employees and their Family Members to leave lebanon at once. And we are covering every angle of this Breaking News. Ben wedeman is on the ground in the lebanese capital of beirut. Kevin liptack has more on the response from President Biden, the White House but lets start first with Nic Robertson, who is live in tel aviv. Nic talk about what could be next in this conflict for israel it does concern that tonight well it could launch a large salvo of its heavier, longerdistance ballistic missiles into t