i'm gonna go back to general mark hertling, who was with us. general hurtling to what jeremy was just talking about right there. and the fact that iran says it is carrying out tonight's retaliation because of that strike against the alleged consulate in damascus to what extent do you think iran is going to limit its targeting at official government military targets rather than what we're looking at right now, which is downtown tel aviv it's hard to tell, right. and now, alex, i would have thought that this would have been a for tat kind of operation. they hit a consulate which everyone knew from the intelligence perspective was actually a headquarters of the quds force in damascus. it wasn't truly a consulate, it was a building but what we're seeing now with the number of weapons in the air that we have been able to count so far it just seems to me this is not going to be the kind of strike you would expect as a counter strike you always have to in a military operations, there's always an action than a reaction and a counteraction. i am very su

>> all right, general mark hertling. thanks so much. i want to go now to alex marquardt, who's also getting some new reporting as more information comes in, alex. >> yeah, jessica, it does appear that iran is ratcheting this up. this is not just the dozens of drones that had been launched that we've been reporting. we're now hearing from israeli media saying that iran has also long launched cruise missiles in addition to these drones, we don't have an exact number. but that is certainly an escalation. it's exactly what i was just mentioning in terms of the questions that are still out there. certainly iran was telegraphing what it was about to do in sending those slow moving drones all the way from iran towards israel. cruise missiles can move an awful lot faster. i defer to our experts on the exact speeds. but it's certainly raises questions about how you're going to how israel is going to be handling this now multifaceted attack from iran, not just missiles but drones as well. and there could be more to come, jessica all right. >> so

lieutenant general mark hertling as well. we do have news into cnn and that is that israel, we're just learning is now lifting in effect shelter in place orders that we saw in the midst of this attack yesterday, which will allow schools to open tomorrow, a sign of perhaps some increased com, in israel about the level of the threat now, at least for now, will continue to provide details on that news till ahead. congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle have been quick to condemn iran's strikes on israel. now, the pressure is on to pass additional aid for israel thing is there's already a senate passed supplemental that has that aid, as well as aid for you brain, which is still under attack and taiwan under threat from china so does that mandu is going to bring it to the floor for a vote will be asking the question you're in the cnn newsroom >> what is it about the titanic? >> why are we so >> obsessed with >> this ship >> every piece of evidence tells a story >> 100 years later it's still leading people to her death >>

and joining us now is seen in military analyst and retired us army commanding general mark hertling great to have you on. thanks so much for making time. >> we are marking the >> six-month anniversary and we as we just learned, the idf announcing, it's withdrawing troops from that khan yunis in southern gaza, saying that the division has concluded its mission. what does this say to you from a military perspective? >> i'm going to counter some of the things that were just said, jessica, if you don't mind, the 98th division, the israeli division, that's been fighting for six months is really in tough condition right now, anytime you put a combat operation together like that for that long of a period of time, they have to rest and refit and i think israel is taking that advantage of time to pull them out, refit them, get them prepare for future missions that israel has also open the or is attempting open the border crossings, as you said, but i'd kinda counter a little bit of what the common thinking is that if you're on the hamas side of this fight, you're thinking israel has been pulled ou

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that meeting is now underway in the, in the situation room, according to a us official, general mark hertling, i want to get your sense of what jeremy just reported that there will now be efforts by the us to knock down these drones and missiles outside of israeli airspace. how effective could that be >> i think it could be very effective. and first of all, jeremy's reporting is excellent, but i've got to give kudos to mr. rule because his assessment of the intelligence capability of the sensors again, i'll go back to that statement i made you earlier. the criticality of the radars, the overhead sensors, and even the satellite sensors to determine where these drones, missiles, rockets cruise missiles are all coming from is critically important. so a combination of the radars on those ships, and if you've ever been on a destroyer or a cruiser, the kind that are like in the gulf of aden and the red sea. and even in the mediterranean, you would know that each one of those ships have multiple radars that can pick up these devices. so it's the sensors, it's incurred. that's critical. what jeremy m

channels four, to discuss the possible military options here let's bring in lieutenant general mark hertlingcnn military analyst and former commanding general of the us army, europe and seventh army. it's good to have you marked. so let's start with what we do know that is that the war cabinet met for hours yesterday in israel, two mole its response because they promised there will be one. the question is, what will that response look like? just way the calculations that they are considering at this point, if you will truthfully becky. and first of all, it's good to be with you again, truthfully, i don't think we're going to see a kinetic strike. i think the percentage of a kinetic strike more missiles going back toward iran a fighter jets going into the iran territory probably will not happen because israel realizes they have the upper hand right now. they fought off this missile barrage of over 350 platforms coming into their airspace. and they had a lot of error partners with them to fight that off. so right now, they're in a better position truthfully on the world stage. and from a messa

there to her interview with iranian foreign minister amir abdullah heian, joining me now, general mark hertling, former army commanding general in europe and our fred pleitgen, who was recently in iran, general hurtling the foreign minister they're described the recent iranian attack on israel blake territory as being at a minimum level. he threatened a maximum level attack in response to any israeli retaliatory strike. i wonder what does a maximum level response look like in your view? >> but you i wrote down a couple of things that was one of them. he not only set a maximum level, but it would be decisive and definitive that was immediately after he said the last operation was successful and decisive, it was not so that that is a miss categories categorization of exactly what iran did last saturday night it's my initial thought jim was iran should never do something for the first time in combat. it was obvious to me that the operation last saturday was disconnected, did not have an operational advantage and the foreign minister truthfully mischaracterized it as only going after military targe

. >> all right, general mark hertling, everyone else. i want you to please stand by. we have much more coming up are special life i've coverage of this breaking news in israel continues right now >> cnn breaking news >> wolf blitzer in washington, we're following the major breaking news at this hour in the middle east fears of a one >> wider regional war are heightened once again, and one of the biggest escalations we've seen since the israel-hamas war began 100. it's a very, very delicate moment, very, very dangerous indeed. and reportedly waves of ballistic missiles from iran are heading towards israel as well. they are more deadly and they fly much faster. both israel and the united states say they will aim to intercept as many of these drones because and missiles as they possibly can. but this much is already certain. these attacks directly from inside iran. and indeed the suspected attack from israel to which arrived says it's responding that these two nations, both with a lot of military power, as close to all out roar as we've seen in recent memory and that cou

and i want to go straight now to the retired army lieutenant general mark hertling and cream soja poor around policy expert at the carnegie endowment for international peace. thanks to both a general hurtling, israel's war cabinet meeting, the israeli officials, the reporting from jeremy diamond that they are going to respond sooner rather than later around in responses said they'll respond within seconds. what does this look like right now? general >> it looks like a mess. erin is what it looks like, but what we have to consider is the culture of both of these nations israel has it been attacked multiple times, not just by iran? but by their proxies, by terrorists groups. so the culture inside that war cabinet is looking for revenge many offers were probably made by different members of that cabinet about what should happen next. but the hardliners in the streets of israel, what something to happen and friends showed the same thing has happened in iraq. so you not only had this strategic pressure of israel fighting multiple fronts in different kinds of wars. but you also have the pote

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this actually happens >> i did want to ask you because that is the news of the day at the general mark hertling in our last hour described that as an inflection point in this war with all of you your experiences seeing today, those forces coming out of khan yunis and the israeli government saying that they are going to press on, that they are now going to recuperate and maybe they look to rafah next. >> what do you >> think if you read between the lines? what does it, what does it really mean in your opinion? >> well, six months of war today the israelis initially deployed what hundred thousand forces for the ground campaign. he withdrawn most of those forces from northern gaza. they maintain i think one brigade in charge of an east-west road and roughly 5,000 is in his early brigade so clearly merck, currently knows what he's talking about. it's an inflection point in a transition at downshift from a comprehensive highly kinetic ground campaign. to more mobile, perhaps more surgical airstrikes will continue or surgical efforts, intelligence driven, maybe identify where the hostage the jar, aga