Conflagration Under News Today

hello im abby phillip in washington. welcome to cnn newsroom we begin this hour in the middle east, where both violence and tensions are escalating. today israeli forces unleashed air strikes in southern lebanon and gaza and israel says it struck targets belonging to the palestinian militant group hamas. israel blames hamas for firing 34 rockets from lebanon yesterday and the latest barrage since the two countries were at war back in 20 in 2006. now that has raised fears of an escalati...

A clear message. but obviously the de escalation will only happen if neither side take steps that lead to, uh continued violence. do you have hope that that will happen in the days to come? well that seems happy to be the attempt by the israeli leadership to try to deescalate this. they have trained their responses on hamas targets both in gaza and in lebanon. they have said that they do not believe hezbollah was involved in the rockets fired from lebanon and in fact there was a helpful statemen...