so let's go to m, ron khan, and has to be in southern lebanon now. what is has been loss saying about how they managed to repel israel, sort of infiltration of the tired training of the board? yeah. well, there are 2 significant incidents today. i'll take you through the 1st one that happened at dawn, and they say, this was a infiltration by israeli soldiers coming in slightly further than they had done before. and at that stage has beloved ambush them. it was the 1st face to face fighting that we've seen since these ro announced it's a ground offensive. they, uh, as below, were quickly able to push them back into is really territory. the 2nd incident, slightly more serious, took place just a few hours ago in a room, which is a town in southern lebanon, is ready for us as it came in, and what his bullet has said is that it surrounded them with a improvised explosive devices of boom which they laid off, i may say that they were at least one person killed in that attack and several injuries. those are very too serious incidents. so as bullet now very,

ron khan was joining us from high spy and that's in 711 on or the aerial bombardment continues along that israel 11 on a border. iran bring us up to speed with, with a late to stay on the ground as well. just in the last few moments you can't really say it because it's on the original and is very hazy of that, but we have seen is really straight go in just be on the highest rigid ridge line. you can see in the background. we've also seen intersections by is really rocky with missile defense systems in is really territory just in the very far distance in the last few moments as well. now there are 3, sorry, 2 key bottles that hezbollah say they for to overnight to starting around midnight to about 1 am, one was in central south lebanon, where they used artillery to push back is ready. so just coming into lebanese territory, the 2nd one was in monroe, where hezbollah site they use all 10 of each other. again, soldiers on the other side who were being evoked for being either dead or wounded. i may say that they have confirmed the casualties below, but in the last couple of hours, there

and ron khan, that person has by yet and 711 on okay, let's go to stephanie deca. she is in jordan's capital, a mom because these rarely government has bind, i'll deserved from reporting inside as well. so stephanie has buller denying that is rarely troops have entered inside lebanon. uh, but we have heard from the is ready army spokesman, daniel had gar in the last hour. so i wonder if you could give us some more information about what do you exactly have to say, and whether that will clear up a what exactly that ground operation they're talking about involves yes, there's a lot of moving parts, so i'm going to try and piece together what we know from hagar a, what we know from well place sources of these really media basically have. are you saying that over the last couple of months is really special forces have been launching a quick specific res into lebanese territory and dismantling according to him. you know that the red one unit is the elite force of hezbollah, that deals with incursions into israel, their capabilities, talking about weapons, stockpiles, mu

at the time that it struck a missile defense position around one over ron's nuclear facilities are facility locations in his for khan a strike on iranian nuclear facilities that would be quite a moment and hard to see how that would not spark and even larger war in the region that's where potentially could happen. indeed, that's not unrealistic at all. jim sciutto, be careful over there in tel aviv, we'll get back to you, kaitlan i want you to continue our special coverage yeah. >> wolf. a major question of how israel chooses to respond to those that could determine what we were looking out over the next days and weeks and months. we can report now that celebratory gunfire and cheers could be heard in beirut and gaza as all of this was unfolding in just the last hour, cnn's ben wedeman is in beirut. ben, can you tell us what you're seeing from your vantage point in the immediate aftermath, kaitlan of those strikes on israel, a war fireworks being fired over this southern suburbs of beirut a root and we could also hear celebratory gunfire keeping in mind that the last two weeks have been a very hard for his butler le