fredricka whitfield and we begin with escalating tensions in the middle east. israel says it has carried out air strikes in syrian territory. israel s defense forces releasing video it says shows strikes on a syrian military compound radar systems and artillery posts. the strikes were launched after israel says rockets were fired from syria toward the golan heights and in the west bank today, a funeral was held for two british israeli sisters who were killed in an attack on friday. days of violence erupted following an israeli police raid on the al aqsa mosque compound in jerusalem last week. cnn s fred pleitgen is in jerusalem. scott mclean is in beirut, lebanon, fred, let me begin with you. what is the latest hi there, fredricka. well certainly it is still quite concerning here on the ground. i would say it s still very tense and very volatile situation as well. and of course, one of the main reasons for that is what you were just mentioning is those rocket attacks that
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to cnn this morning. Sunday, october 22nd. Im amara walker. Im victor blackwell. We begin with the expected Israeli Ground offensive into gaza. Saturday, the Israeli Military said would increase airstrikes on hamas targets ahead of any ground incursion. Thousands of israeli troops and hundreds of Armored Vehicles are at the gaza border ready to strike hamas. Israel Defense Forces dropped flyers into Northern Gaza warning civilians to once again evacuate to the south or they might be considered a partner for the terrorist organization. As Fighting Increases at the northern border with lebanon. Defense production act said the u. S. Malt said the u. S. Is increasing readiness in the region, including deploying additional Defense Systems to the middle east and american troops on standby to deploy at a moments notice. Meanwhile, egypts red crescent says 17 aid trucks carrying food and medicine are ready to enter gaza through the rafah Border Crossing but
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UK has militarily surrendered to Yemen and proposed a “diplomatic solution” to the Red Sea crisis following the Yemeni military’s operations in the strategic waterway in solidarity with Gaza
still very much looking out to see whether or not or anything bad could happen in the next coming days. next coming hours. fredricka on the edge of their seats. alright fred pleitgen. thanks so much scott to you. a meeting took place between leaders of hezbollah and some palestinian militant groups. so what can you tell us resulted from that? so fredricka. israel has indicated that it s not going to strike lebanese territory unless there is rocket fire coming from here again in its direction. so the question is, will there be? as you mentioned this meeting happened between the leadership of hezbollah, the lebanese militant and political group in this country, which to be clear has not been blamed for the rocket fire from lebanon, but they met with these palestinian militant groups to discuss, among other things, the readiness of the resistance axis resistance access to confront what s happening in jerusalem. at this point, there s no indication that there s going to be another attack,