Hello. Im annita mcveigh. More now on our top story, the situation in the middle east, where lebanese officials say that nine people have been killed in an israeli Air Strike that Hit A Multistorey Building in central beirut. The Israeli Military says it carried out what it calls precise strikes in the bachoura neighbourhood, near the lebanese parliament. And in the south of the Country Israel says their warplanes killed around 15 hezbollah members in an Air Strike in bintjbeil. Meanwhile hezbollah claims their fighters confronted israeli forces attempting to advance at the fatima border crossing. The Israeli Military is yet to comment on these reports. Lets get more on the missiles fired into israel. Iran is thought to have used ballistic missiles like this, they fly high and fast in an arc, and can get from iran to israel injust 12 minutes. But israel has a sophisticated, multi layered air defence system. Best known is the Iron Dome but that only deals with shorter range rockets fro
Special live coverage. Im Kaitlan Collins, The Middle East is on the Brink Tonight as the world is watching and waiting to see what is really prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus definition of payback looks like after this rock. Oh god, okay, guys, we got to get off the roof. These are cup iran, that prc is really sky earlier today. On the ground, the sound of Air Raid sirens, 180 missiles in all launched during the assault, sending millions of people racing to bomb Shelters Israel says tonight that the iranian strike had no impact Air Defenses ended up intercepting many of those missiles that were fired by iran. Though i should note, some did land in the central and southern parts of the country, one or one and missile Hit A School and central israel in this burst out of iran is just the latest moment in a year that has been filled with many of them test you want. Israels warplanes assassinated, has Hezbollahs Leader just last week, months after erasing hamass political leader from the
Welcome to our viewers, joining us from around The World. Im Becky Anderson in Tel Aviv, where israel is vowing that iran will pay for launching a barrage of roughly 200 missiles into israeli territory. And Im Rosemary Church In Atlanta breaking down the key takeaways from the first and only us Vice President ial Debate Fighting between the Israeli Military and the iranbacked militant group, hezbollah. Less than a day after tehran launched its largest ever aerial attack against israel. These are live pictures from beirut, lebanon where smoke is hanging over the sky worthy new strikes launched overnight by the idf against hezbollah targets in beiruts Southern Suburbs after issuing Evacuation Orders for several neighborhoods, Sand Hezbollah have claimed to have Hit Bag were a Rocket Attack on an Israeli Military barracks along the lebanese israeli border. And well get to that in a moment. Meanwhile, both Israel And Iran are trying to control the narrative over the impact of tech runs unp
States now has Indications Iran is imminent with a ballistic Missile Attack against israel. It could come as early as today. Staff at the u. S. Embassy In Jerusalem have been warned to shelter in place. An attack on iran would be a major escalation in a region on heightened alert as israel forces cases out raid in southern lebanon. They went in the limited Ground Movement against those terrorists. Theyre trying to go after the iranianbacked terror group, hezbollah. This is outnumbered. This is Harris Faulkner with emily Compagno And Kayleigh mcenany and also here, sheryl casone. The port strike, Cant Wait to get her expertise on that. And Fox News contributor, Ari Fleischer is here. Lets start with our own Trey Yingst reporting from northern israel. Trey . Overnight was with Israelly Forces as they entered southern leb lebanon. It was the first time since 2006 that israel has been on the ground publicly. They warned civilians in more that 20 different ill have villages and towns to eva
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