less kilometers in columbus, as of tunnels, apparently close to the lebanese a. it's ray the boulder. now this is the siren heading to hospitals across the country. following this mass casualty event, yes. on october 25th, we saw the heaviest exchange of fire between as well. and has the law is preemptive strikes to the foil has by laws retaliation for the killing of its chief of staff. as well as saying that it succeeded, that it's drones, the drones that launched from southern 11 on hit the target north of tel aviv. and the casualties, and that as well was hiding its losses after the exchange of failure, of the intensity of the complex returns to really what it was over the past few months. so we've seen this, you know, sporadic escalation every now and then both sides really have been calibrating

their attacks. so trying to prevent this conflict from whitening from spiraling out of control. there is no doubt of that. you know, both sides can excerpts or, or inflict a lot of damage on, on each other. and, but really the past few days we've seen these hyphen tensions which was was, which was really causing concern last night. the security cabinet as well, security cabinet met. and they decided to expand the mandate of the war saying one of the state of goals now is to return the 10s of thousands of his babies to their homes in the north of the country. and they met and made this decision and took this decision at a time when the us mediator amos hops in was in israel to try to diffuse pensions. so that in itself is being seen as some sort of a message to the bodies ended ministration, which has for the past 11 months the most to ensure that the confrontation between hezbollah is smell remains limited. and it doesnt sparks original awards. and

that's what's the message that talks then gave to the, you know, it's really leaders when, when he was, he wasn't as well not to expand this conflict unusually every time because he usually comes to 11 on but this time around he does not. i asked sources close to the speaker a partner has to be, but it's an ally of hezbollah. amount that talk spin, has repeatedly mentioned recent months. why is that the case? and the sources said, is this because, you know, levels position is clear, even handful us position is clear. we do not want to expand this conflict as well. the opened up this front to help us to help relieve pressure on garza and not to launch a full on war with israel. now in recent days, we've heard talk frankie has, well, officials, whether it's the deputy secretary general diagnostic or whether it is a member of the executive council. reiterate if you like that it's will not help firing at is really military positions in the north of israel unless the

war on the end. and that regardless of is really threats, it is not going to change its position. and the message from the top ranking has for the officials to, as well was if you want to launch a wide scale offensive to be able to bring back tens of thousands of people to their homes along the border. we tell you a lot of sense it will only create further displacements. and along with that, as well as actions and targeting deeper insight as well targeting areas which are still not evacuated. they don't target population centers directly. they target around these towns, towns like separate, for example, searching kilometers south of the of the board or what they are trying to do is put 72800000. more is radius of the line of fire to add more pressure on this way. the government, so we are given this conflict really is that that's an all the time. so i just said

since our as an all time high. and that's why there is a lot of concern that this new turning point where, where will it leads? when israel, you know, carry out further attacks, how, when his father respond to this to this, you know, massive really intelligence breach of its members wounds that some of them you, you see the videos, some of them have lost their arms, their hands, injuries to their face so this is a very serious, very serious incident, say to many signs for the time being, sign a hold of the in by root. i'm some more information coming from the region as well . not directly we believe linked to what we're hearing coming out of 11 on, but so we understand that. so the media is reporting that they seen your finger was killed in a car bomb explosion in damascus. the syrian capital, of course, the kind of explosion reported on

a road between how low so on the tunnel on cover sue's around a band for those who know damascus to be and the one that has and when we get to it, we're going to cross now to the jordanian capital, amman, i'm just south jesus based staff for us. of course the t mail reporting out of georgia. and ever since these are the government funds i've just heard from reporting in israel itself. and let's talk about so what's on folding and 11 on. of course, whenever a major incident happened, slight, there's some suspicions immediately full on israel. israel tends to remain tight lips. are they citing anything? that's right, we're actually just getting a statement from these really prime minister's office after a close associate, among times folks person for the prime minister had posted on x, formerly known as twitter, alleging that israel had involvement in this incident. but the prime minister's office said that they are distancing themselves from this in any sort of way that

the person who posted that israel was responsible for this is not in any way in the circles of discussion that are going on within is really security. but with all that being said, we have to remember that israel has denied number of attacks when it comes to any sort of activity, whether it's the full or whether it be serious, whether it be god. so there has been a lot of denials across the board, so there hasn't been any sort of official response when it comes to claiming responsibility. but let's talk about the meeting that took place last night in his role security cabinet at the defense ministry known as the key to your intel, a b. now source to describe this meeting as quite dramatic, saying, but there were a lot of steps that were taken when it comes to combating the threat on israel. northern border and dealing with his bowl. as we heard from dana, these really prime minister had released the statement saying that he added a 4th goal to the war and that is returning is really to northern israel. those townsend settlements that had been largely evacuated once the cross border fire

started on october. the 8th, then the extension for those evacuation continue month after month. so there was a lot of talk on what is real is going to do next summer, not to miss officials speaking to his really media have said that israel is, are ready to take the next step, ready for an offensive. but again, the american officials that have been saying that this is not the way to solve this problem, that some sort of larger pre emptive strikes from these really is our larger attack is not how the people in the north are going to return to those towns and settlements, but nonetheless, there has been a lot of disagreements on how to meals with these threat on israel's northern border. and it's actually something that has become quite a point of contention between these really prime minister and these really defense minister. but all signs are signaling, of course, that this was perhaps israel, but still no official sort of denials or confirmation from these really secure

decide. yeah, to say have the big questions about whether or not this is indeed because a to something else organized by israel when it comes to potentially pushing troops into something 11 or something house, all of that, i'm sure will become clear in the coming hours and days but of course, it's well just don't carry out an alleged incident like this without anticipating some sort of response from as below. how does it calibrate what it does next? anticipation of the, of the will look for months. b is rarely defense and security establishment has said that they are prepared to deal with any sort of scenario with a wide variety of circumstances when it comes to his beloved. meaning that israel would be ready to launch that offensive and would be ready for any sort of response by his follow up with this housing necessarily. been a change in these really policy. we've heard from the defense minister from the army, chief of staff for months saying that they increase the readiness that they are

prepared. remember which is bullet drones, were able to infiltrate and take video and has been low. publish nearly 910 minute videos of areas in northern israel, of sensitive military targets. israel had quickly switch saying that they are now sort of looking at what was new drone capability is looking at how to combat them. but this of course is something different. this is a completely new element that we've seen since the beginning of the cross border fire. so israel has said they are prepared for any sort of scenario they have hinted, they're ready for an offensive. there's a lot of disagreement within these really security establishment of how exactly to tackle the issue on it's northern border. but again, security and defense officials say that they are prepared for anything on the solid reporting from i'm on that many. thanks for them. just to update you on what we are covering by way of breaking news. uh this, our dozens of members of the lebanese home group has the law appear to be

a singleton this lead targeted by the pages being remotely designated. we don't know the full extent of the entries. we don't know the full scale of the number of people that may have been killed as a result of that. but what we do know is what has been law has described. this is a major security breach big questions about now. what is the rails potential next move is, although these really leadership has remained mostly tight lipped on it. several short witnesses though. i've been warning others and 11 on of course to get rid of that pages after this incident. has happened to the page of devices that we've been using. all of them are exploding in the guys. we're moving for the engine. all are going to the hospital we don't have room anymore in the hospitals. there's more than $400.00 men here. they're peters exploded. the ones they use for communication . these a big assassination?

big assassination. okay, staying with the story, let speak to remy curry, who's a distinguished fellow at the american university of b realty, joins us now from boston, new york, welcome to the program. so i'm sure you've been following all of this. so with the huge amount of concern and curiosity as well, i mean the bottom draw politically is that the is ready. the government says said it's adding, returning security to northern israel is quote, for go to the war. the assumption was that something may be in the pipeline, but did anyone ever experience the attack would come in the way that it has to a this is highly unusual and really troubling for his beloved and for all of its allies on the axis of resistance. because it means that the as rarely as have the capabilities and intelligence and attacks of this nature far beyond what people have shown. and that the security precautions that has bella and others take

clearly are not sufficient. whether this is due to intelligence sources and loving and who, how to do this or cyber attacks we, we will have to find out. but this is, this is the most dangerous event. i think that isabella has faced and years to simultaneously had a balance of hundreds of, of, of pages. it also marks out the immediate capability of communicating. they probably have backup systems of course, but so it's possible that this is the beginning of a larger campaign. these really is i've talked about removing the set of hezbollah for the last 910 months. it's a huge issue for the much more serious. um then how mass is and therefore it's no surprise that they ratchet is up now on one level higher. they're also at a high level of confidence in the americans and british and western support that

they're getting their feel they can do anything they want. and the west will support them no matter how and how the bad it is or whatever. so this is something that the israelis have talked about and, and clearly there is tension within israel between the government, them and the armed forces about this, between the people who are demonstrating the streets and the shifts, the focus a little bit from cancer to the 11 is as rarely a situation at the reply as well as going to be really important to watch and as well. it doesn't necessarily reply immediately. we'll have to give it a few days. we'll see what they say. and what they do is going to be important. but they're obviously much more focused in loveland them on restoring their communications capabilities and finding out how this happened is very, very interesting, isn't it? how is route as apparently calabrese this attack on has blog. we're talking about

attack that may have been having spoken to a military in security analyst early and may have been many, many months if not years in the making. but now is the time that they decided to put this into action. it is not an attack that is based upon heavy weaponry is missing and gaza. it relies on something of a slow but on a huge amount of data. i'm planning a yes, and this is a sign of where the military confrontation is moving. when you see the, i'm sorry, a lot of the hotels and the amount of firing a high speed messiah is that can reach television, which they did the other day without being detected. and you see this kind of attack on me as well as drones, up flu, over northern israel, a couple of months ago and took a lot of video. so the nature of the confrontation is really moving into technical capabilities, as well as the sheer arm and power encourage on the ground. and this is

something that i'm sure that people are working on all over the region now trying to figure this out. but these really is, i've always had a, a very big edge in technical come, you know, digital the cyber cyber world stuff. so they're very good at it. but as well as been equally good over the years and defending itself. so it will, this is a turning point, i think in this confrontation, and it'll either push both sides into a larger war. or it'll push everybody to retreating from the branch and trying to figure out if they can restore the situation and the is re 11 and border to one that's more manageable for both sides. the or the federal erupt into something much bigger. my, my, my position has always been the most get a big regional war, but we have to wait and see. let me,

let me ask you about the time able, if this because it hasn't gone unnoticed. the famous aux the in the us and boy has been to, in, in the region. his key message is being one of a strange, hasn't it never the less disappears to have being lost, ignore a. that's right. this is a, this is part for the course of the israelis routinely not only neglect what the americans tell them, but you know so much in their face. i mean, they've often, for instance, expanded announced a major settlement expansion when the american president visits as we go and things of that nature. so this is no surprise. the americans have very limited capabilities in terms of their diplomatic action. they focus more on military support for his real and sanctions against israel's foes. and now they're trying to focus, i'm so there is really a normalization. but the american diplomatic efforts are not taken very seriously

by most people in the region, which is a shame because the us shouldn't be a huge diplomatic actor. but it is clearly on the side of israel. and everything it does has to fit into the priority is of israel so often being ignored as no surprise. in fact, it's kind of routine. okay, rama cory gets a he will thoughts and analysis. so let me carry this thing which kind of the american university of pay rates. so let's now speak to jamal goshen, who's a physical commentator and writes a he is in the liberties capital b rates, jamal, thanks for joining us. so when we were speaking to our correspondent, also invite, we'll use a little bit of the, she was describing the sounds of ireland simon's going pos disco. give us a sense of the, the mood, the atmosphere, the inmates and the wake of this single chain is coordinated to tackle and has balaam's. i mean, yes, there are. uh, an uh uh, a lower most amount of, uh, sirens, uh, ambulance fires has going on. and uh,

this is a bit, i mean obviously this is a major intelligence tool by the israelis. uh, i guess as muller. uh, but also it's, i mean, if you wanna look at it and it's a bit of desperation move by. and that is rarely because if they did have that access and they didn't have that, a technology to be able to do that to pull it off though it's kind of a desperate move because it's really, it reveals something to that. the like they reveal the secret weapon that would have been very much more powerful. they actually used it in a later stage during a full loud confrontation. so uh, on one hand, yes, it is a major cool. on the other hand, it's a bit of desperation. move uh so in that respects, if you believe that this is a,

a desperate move by israel allegedly do you see this is an alternative to a much wider complaints with has prolong i mean, the 1st of all, yeah. you said the, is there a allegedly because of course, uh, it probably has also american hands involved. uh, the israel would not pull that off on its own. so this is uh, it's important to point that out that uh there is probably, uh, american involvement in such an attack. but uh, to answer your question, no, i don't think this is the gonna, i mean, obviously there will be a major response to that attack. and uh and do i think we're, uh, we're looking at the competition, that's gonna be very much for long, and it's going to be a drag gone floor and months maybe the years. and the there will be,

i don't know if you can hear. there's also a number of science behind me right now, but the, uh, there will be, uh, it's, it's a, it's got to be a prolong the confrontation, this is just one us. i don't think this signals an end to it. if anything good signals promulgation of it, jamal from what you know of, how has the law operates in 11 on. what do you think in the short term, i'm along to the impacts of this coordinated attack will be in terms of hezbollah as capabilities. how will they be reviewing recalibrating, how they operate right now? and uh, i mean obviously the, i gotta have to replace their communication system, the page or the system, the, the, the using, the, they do have alternative communication systems. that's not an issue. we still don't know the size or of that tech like we don't know really how many people were

injured. but it's also important to point out that the, they're all relatively minor interviews like the, i mean the picture exploding is not. uh, i don't know how many before it came in that hadn't heard of any. uh that's it was a most of the injuries and the might there interview. so in terms of, uh, it's more as the attack is, hurts more in an on an image wise, rather than actually hurting their fighting capabilities. because uh, i think uh as well, uh and with uh, its tens of thousands of fighters. they can uh, recover from a few 100 injuries. what is the overall anticipation that particularly in the, in the lebanese capital, in response to the authority government now adding of a ton of securities, unknown. israel is one of its key will goals of people that are living,

that old really lives in pay rate, bracing for something as well. i mean obviously the that is very important also to point out to your, the, to the and when it comes to the conviction of most of the people in this region, whether 11 or in palestine, there is no such thing as northern israel. there is occupied territories and that needs to be liberated and this was, has been the goal for the resist as well, but it's all the all along and that doesn't change. so that's not about restoring security to the northern occupied territory is the issue. the issue is restoring palestine or liberating palestine, and this is the lead to people who have taken on this flight. they know what they're, they've gotten themselves into and they know what the goal is. an intensive hezbollah

was response eventually, as we were saying, to audi, a guess has been always very, very keen to show off the awesome a lot of heavy weaponry. only a few months ago also mentioned the extensive so extensive tunnel network and southern israel. it's actually, it's a very important to note here that the credit has, well, it has not revealed much. so if it's within, like even in the slightest attack, in response to the assassination of their military commander flights. okay. they didn't use any new weapons. they are sitting like we saw that as well as revealing, they made their card with the tax, the date with the cyber attack today. but the as well as still sitting on a lot of uh, what is that they have not revealed that they have. and that they have not used in this battle. we might see in response to this, maybe they will uh, use some type of new uh web or re, but uh uh they have been very uh,

dean on keeping their uh, secret questions include like, the am i quoted that a secret until no. okay. uh jim, i will caution physical comments and writes as being the good to have you on how to do it. how does everybody? thanks for that. okay. but he just joined us. hundreds of members of, of nissan group has below have been seriously wounded and 11 on south and the southern suburbs of a route when the pages that they use is to communicate appear to have single attain. this lee exploded a security for the security sources. they're also hearing from police 3 security sources of the pages, the destination 11 on with the quote, the latest model brought in by hezbollah. in recent months. we as yet do not know the full extent of those injured seriously,

or whether one on any of these destinations have indeed been faithful, but it has been described by has belong, as a major security breach the political backdrop to all of this is of course, israel declaring the return of its citizens to contested areas in the north field of israel as a major rule. go as full, full go. it does take, you know, back to baby rates and say, you know, honda is the zine and we were talking of course about the why the context whole if that's the political backdrop is verify a fever all the moments the stated will go through a ton of a is raised to northern is around it is disputed territory. it has been in the area of the well that has been full to over as belong and these ready for these have for many, many months been trading exchanges of fine on that board of the

well yes, no doubt. this confrontation has reached a new level, a major intelligence breach. israel has not claimed responsibility, but as well as being blamed for this more than 1000 members of how long have been wounded across the country in baby route in south lebanon in the east of the country as well. and the end of the call region ambulance siren, are heard across the capitol. in the past 2 minutes, i saw for ambulances, head towards hospitals. nearby hospitals are overwhelmed with this mass casualty event. the lebanese health minister has called on on, on health workers, doctors, nurses to head to the, to the different hospitals across the country to provide support. hospitals have been under strain due to 11 on economic collapse. this country has all but collapse . the states is nearly bankrupt,

so we're going to explore the health minister as expected to get a press conference in just under an hour to get more details about you know, the state, some hospitals. so more than $1000.00 injury, showing men lying on the ground, a lot of people have their, their, their hands, their arms. we're even getting reports from you run your media that the around noon and pass it or has been wounded that he kept was carrying. he was also carrying this page or it's just communication device that was being used by has the law because has been law, has stopped using smartphones for months now. even though the secretary general has the throat on one of his speeches called on his, on his fighters, along the front lines to stop using a smartphones and the to stop the, you know, the took to not to use the internet because israel with its tech. so logical capabilities and it's, it's a very technologically advanced army,

is able to locate a fighters and so managers in israel has cubes of fighters and for managers in recent months. so a major intelligence speech, chaos, not just in the capital, but in areas across the country of the, you know, near simultaneous explosions. there is a lot of concern about what happens next. how will, how's, while the respond and what was as well as motive that is the question, was this a retaliation to what the israeli army allege that has? well, i was planning to assassinate a former high ranking security official, or is route trying to paralyze hezbollah, hinder their communications, and to pave the way for a major escalation. or was this uh, another form of pressure on has a lot to agree to some sort of diplomatic settlement to the concerts without having to wait for a ceasefire in gospel. so yes is around. this being claimed, it's motives. it's still not clear, but definitely this was

a major security breach. even hezbollah has described that as such. and uh, you know, there is, there is a lot of concern because in recent days there has been enough that can violence, not just along the border of a deeper insight. so dramatic developments in the past few hours where it's, it's heavy. it's too early to say, but what we can tell you is that security sources have said more than 1000 members of has the law, have been insurance. we still have no reports of, of debt, which hospitals are over. well, that's the pitch of 411 on say no, hold on many things for that. well, just to add to was a and it just mentioned the real hearing that runs ambassador 11 on most of the top of a money was also issued in the explosion of a page. or let's go to mount on the shower. i'll just there a senior political analyst, he's over here in paris, so mo, on a lot to take in here. but

a lot of questions about what the intended goals on what the message may have been, and carrying out this a pound. singleton is coordinated attacks that have been long time in the making. was it because the something else was it designed to paralyze has belong? well, was it to leverage some sort of diplomatic, a push when it comes to resolving conflicts in the region? well, i mean, let's start with the most obvious needs. here's the buttons on how mass are invested war. so this is 1st and foremost, part of the ongoing war. it's an act of war, but it is right against as well. but it goes beyond it seems because this is not just i'm not.