Information that hezbollah was going to launch an attack around 5 a. M. Local time. So they basically got in front of this minutes before it happened. Hezbollah then fired upwards of 320 rockets, according to hezbollah and drones, all mostly targeting northern israel. Now, Local Media Is Reporting hezbollah had plans to launch an estimated 6000 rockets and uavs, both towards central and northern israel. But israels Preemptive Strike obviously dampened that. So now the region must wait and see what will happen over the next 48 hours to see if hezbollah again, if this is just truly the first phase. But it will also be interesting to see what happens with the ongoing peace talks. As of right now, israel is sending a delegation to cairo, egypt to meet up with mediators from the u. S, qatar and egypt. So it will be curious to see just if this if this Peace Process moves forward, if they can at least get the first phase of the Cease Fire Agreement agreed to by both hamas and israel, we know
After if you want you can have a lockdown edition of going underground after repeated attacks by only israel owned by britain the United States and the European Unions nations against middle east targets from the suburbs of damascus to the persian gulf to the iranian province of it as economic and military violence rages during a Global Pandemic from latin america to africa to Northern Ireland to ukraine lets go straight to rome to speak to the former m i 6 agent and the founder and director of conflicts for him just a crook thanks so much for coming on you wouldnt think its a here in britain where obviously people are grieving over the jew commander. But just take us through some of the latest events i mean theres an attack on a Nuclear Plant an attack on the iranian sub his vessel in the red sea and yet lloyd austin bidens pentagon boss hes been in israel declaring. His absolute support for the israeli government. Yes thats right i think what were seeing is in fact theres something o
A maritime sound off in the black sea russia restricts access for ukraines naval vessels. Coverage for new zealand stages the Worlds Largest concert since the pandemic began. Doctors in iraq say at least 27 people have been killed now after an explosion inside a baghdad hospital fire burned through award week over 1000 patients were being treated. The accident was caused by a faulty oxygen tank dozens of people have been badly injured putting pressure on a Health System struggling with surging coronavirus cases some wonderful scene has more from baghdad. We understand at the time of the incident there were 120 patients admitted. To hospital 30 of them were specifically in the respiratory carrying it because this is a hospital that handles primarily covert 1000 patients and in addition to these 120 patients there were several family members want to perfect per patient minute because this is a people curiosity in the iraqi Health Care System that family members are actually allowed to be
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Theres something of a Division Within israel about what to do about this netanyahu has been stuck along on one track on iran by 20 years saying iran is only a few months away or 2 years away at most from a Nuclear Weapon and hes his policy is basically been one of containment compay forever containment not just containment but forever and that policy is not working and hasnt been working and israeli officials have started to question it and for the 1st time weve heard explicit public pushback from Senior Security and intelligence officials saying you know actually wed like to go back to the j. C. And whats more we want to go back and we suggest we go back without adding anything to it no questions including missiles or other aspects into the negotiation. J p p o if we want to go back to that israel was safer at that time than it is now and these are senior officials former heads of must that im talking about it and i think it reflects something actually more substantial thats taken pla