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Major Breaking News right now. Israel vowing to retaliate after iran launches a major Strike Firing about 200 ballistic missiles at israel. A Strike Iran assists was only a quote, portion of their power. Good evening. Im Wolf Blitzer along with Kasie Hunt, welcome to our viewers here in the United States and Around The World. This is a Special Edition of this situation it is a sharp escalation between the two sides. One that could tip the region further into an allout War Air Raid sirens sounding across israel as flashes of light Lit Up the sky israels Air Defense System successfully knocking down most of irans missiles but there were some hits. This is one crater in central israel the massive strike coming a day after israeli forces launched a rare Ground Operation into southern lebanon, a mission aimed at taking out the uranium backed militia, hezbollah and tonight, iran is threatening what It Calls a Crushing Quote crushing response if israel carries through with its promise, promis
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
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You watching us here in the United States, canada, and around the world. This is cnn newsroom. Im Kim Brunhuber, Live In Atlanta were following the latest developments in the Middle East, following the israeli airstrike in lebanon that killed Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah the israeli strikes have been going on for days now and theyre showing no signs of letting up despite new fears. Of a wider war in the region of a look here, we have new video from lebanon showing some of the damage from todays israeli airstrikes in lebanon. Lebanons State News Agency says, the Sunday Strikes have killed at least ten people. Meanwhile, weve just heard from the idf that a number of projectiles have been fired from lebanon lebanon, into israel now all this is happening as the u. S. Says, israel is moving troops to the border with lebanon. A possible sign of preparations for a crossborder incursion. Israel says a Ground Operation is only one of the options. Its considering we need to understand there