The Place President ial Debate Tomorrow Night this is cnn Breaking News well, it is now 10 00 a. M. Here in israel and in lebanon. Im Becky Anderson in Tel Aviv and this is a live look at beirut as we speak. You can see a thick haze is hanging over the city. There. After overnight israeli Air Strikes and some 200 kilometers up the coast from where we are here in Southern Lebanon. Israel has started what it calls a limited Ground Operations, sending in paratroopers commandos, and members of the armed corps the israeli military says it is conducting quote, targeted raids that the israeli lebanese border. Israel says there will be no longterm occupation of Southern Lebanon lebanese State Media says strikes are underway at this hour in Southern Lebanon and those attacks are causing severe damage meantime, hezbollah says it has targeted parts of Northern Israel during the early morning hours the u. S. Says, israel informed it of a number of operations, including the Ground Incursion us nati
if you think back some what 24 hours now, we were showing on cnn, i will show them again, pictures of what the israelis say are militants popping up from tunnels on the israeli side. this was first now, popping up on the israeli side and them being targeted by the air force and it was this attack thwarted the israelis say by an airstrike, this attack that the israelis say really was the straw that broke the camel s back, it was the reason that the prime minister calls for this grounding incursion to start. we believe that the decision to start this ground incursion was actually back on tuesday after the egyptian and peace proposal was rejected by hamas, the actual button as it were was presd only thursday after this attack which the israelis, as i say, thwarted. look, i keep saying this is what the israelis are telling us,