New york. This is Cnn Newsroom with Paula Newton hello, and a very warm welcome to our viewers in the United States and all Around The World. Im Paula Newton. It is 8 00 am In Beirut where fears are growing that the exchange of Missile Fire between Israel And Hezbollah could now turn into a ground war. Us officials say is israeli troops have mobilized and are moving to the border with lebanon in what could be, could be preparation for a Ground Incursion Israel saying that a Ground Offensive is only one option that is currently being considered, not the idf continued their Air Offensive on saturday with blasts hitting close to the beirut airport Saturday Strikes in lebanon reportedly killed more than 30 people and wounded close to 200 others. Has belonged for its part fired back, saying it launched missiles towards jerusalem, prompting a response from israeli Air Defenses police say pieces of an interest intercepted missile crashed in the suburbs all that is happening after israel killed Hezbollahs Leader Hassan Nasrallah, prompting new fears of a wider war in the region. Now, hezbollah is pledging to continue its fight while iran says israel will face a Crushing Blow for the killing, israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country is now one step closer to achieving its military goals. Who gummi condemn the elimination of nasrallah is a necessary condition for achieving the goals we have said returning the residents of the north safely to their homes and changing the Balance Of Power in the region over the years. Because as long as nasrallah lived, he would quickly restore the capabilities we took away from hezbollah. Thats why i gave the directive. And azrallah is no longer with us are standing by to bring us right up to date. Elliott gotkine is in london. Paula hancocks joins us from Abu Dhabi and elliott first to you, what more are you learning about israels next moves potentially and crucially, what has stated our its strategic goals when it comes to hezbollah paula, look, we know that israels main strategic goal or stated strategic goal, is to create the conditions that enable the 60,000 Plus Israelis that have been displaced from their homes in the north of israel to enable them to return to their homes. Theyve not been able to do so for the best part of a year since hezbollah began firing on israel on october the eighth in solidarity with the hamasled terrorist attacks, a day before. So thats the stated goal, but i think so spectacular have been some of the tactical achievements by israel in terms of the pager explosions, the walkietalkie explosions. And then the assassination of Hezbollahs Leader Hassan Nasrallah. And much of hezbollahs Military Top Brass that it will feel that now its the time to try to degrade hezbollah not once and for all, but certainly for the foreseeable future. And at the same time, remove what is effectively irans first line of defense against israel. And to try, which has been trying to deter israel from carrying out strikes on israels nuclear facilities. So thats kind of one of the strategy hes in the north with prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also said something interesting. We saw one of the clips from his statement on saturday evening. What he also said was the elimination of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of hezbollah, advances the return of our own residents to their homes in the north. It also advances the return of our hostages in the south as he puts it, as he put it, the killing of Hassan Nasrallah and the fact that hezbollah appears to be reeling from all of these many israeli attacks that without nasrallah being able to come to the rescue in netanyahus words, that that will make Yahya Sinwar the leader of hamas and the architect of the October The 7 attacks. That will make him more likely to return the hundred or so israeli hostages. About a third of whom are believed to be dead already, to return them to israel after almost a year in captivity. So those are some of the strategies of israel. And of course, the possibility of a Ground Incursion remains very much alive. Israel has said itself Herzi Halevi the israels top general, said to troops that they should prepare for such an eventuality. A spokesman told Wolf Blitzer that was a possibility. And from the u. S perspective, a senior Administration Official and other us officials tell cnn that they see the possibility of a limited israeli Ground Incursion. But they sense that israel has yet to make that decision and that polar is a decision that israel well, not take lightly, given the debacle that took place the last time there was an israeli Ground Incursion into thousand and six something that israels own State Commission of inquiry subsequently described as hasty and poorly planned. Israel will not want to make the same mistakes again, paula. Which again brings the question of what does the limit . It Incursion Look like . If thats even possible pollen out to you, hezbollah of course, is vowing to respond. But the question is hour is how it is clearly still reeling from the assassination of its leader. Obviously, Delta Brutal Bode was military capabilities and then Waiting In The Wings as iran learned many times in the past thats assassinating a leader does not eradicate a movement. They have been assassinating hamas leaders for, for decades now. And yet it was the Ground Invasion into gaza that weakened and to that movement ultimately, i think there is an understanding that this is a massive demoralization for the hezbollah group, but it doesnt necessarily mean that it is going to have a direct impact on its operational capabilities. It is still a significant threat to israel. It is still a significant Military Force in the region. And of course, as you mentioned, you do have to consider what a run. It main funder and support her would be willing to do weve heard from many former and senior us officials saying that they believe this assassination and what is happening now . Ive does make it far more likely that there will be a wider conflict. But also pointing out that once senior us official said they believed that iran will intervene if they feel that they are about to lose hezbollah. So that could be the key if hezbollah does seem to be suitably weakened israels eyes then maybe that would encourage iran to get involved as well. And that does become a far wider and more dangerous conflict. Now weve had a statement from hezbollah. They have said that they will continue to fight despite what has happened. Weve also heard from the iranian ambassador to the United Nations calling for united Nations Security Council Emergency Meeting on what has happened but weve also heard from the iranian Supreme Leader saying that the fate of this region now rests on the resistance groups. And at the top of that is hezbollah. What this is its really pointing out to is that this is not just about one group, it is not just about hezbollah and the leader of that group, there are many other militias around the region that could step in now and its give more support to hezbollah. And weve certainly been hearing that supports vocally around the region. Lets listen to one palestinian leader netanyahu thinks to the assassination of the great leader, the master and the icon of the resistance. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will impact the Resistance And Will impact our ability to continue our struggle than he is delusional and we will see did that he is in the coming days. On the contrary, this will inflame the resistance and the fighters and their willingness to struggle that they did launch a Longrange Missile from lebanon to the jerusalem area. And the idf did confirm there were sirens and there was an interception in that area. So its also a reminder that hezbollah does have an awful lot of these Longrange Missiles in reserve. We really havent seen that that part of the equation at this point, there was one that was intercepted close to the Tel Aviv Area which has blessed was was targeting the Mossad Mossad Headquarters at that point, but it is a reminder as well that there is an awful lot of arsenal that can reach further into israel that hezbollah has not really used up until this point. Paula we will wait and see what that response is as it will likely will come. Elliott gotkine, Paula Hancocks for us. Thank you both now, other Middle Eastern leaders are also expressing sorelle an outrage over nasrallah is killing syrians. Government is condemning the israeli strike that killed hezbollah leader and a large number of innocent civilians In Beirut. Palestinian authority president meantime, Bakhmut Abbas says he gives heartfelt sympathies to the lebanese government and any civilian casualties. Jordans Foreign Minister says his country will hold israel fully responsible for the catastrophic consequences of its attacks on lebanon and egypts Foreign Minister spoke out at the un. Listen israeli escalation. Its dangerous and it knows no limits. It is pushing the region to the brink of the abyss. We categorically reject and strongly condemn israels current Aggression Visavis Lebanon this is a flagrant violation of lebanons sovereignty, its territorial integrity, its unity, and its political independence you know, well assess the middle East Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles times and he joins me now from beirut. It is good to have you here as we continue to try and parse what is going on in the ground and you have seen the reaction there as you have reported, there is shock, fear and unfortunately, right, that unshakable dread about what comes next. What is at stake for civilians in lebanon . They know all too well what has gone on In Gaza for the last 11 months well, so of course, having already, if you go to the south of the country, you can see wide swaths of the area there just obliterated houses, God Et cetera. If you walk around beirut, you can see the effects already as well with hundreds of people well, just sleeping on the pavements. I mean, yesterday i did a quick drive around the city and basically all around Beiruts Waterfront areas like the corniche near employed by the public Beach Area near dosha. I mean, you just see people sleeping on the sidewalks in parks and public spaces. And most of those have been i mean, theyve residents of the bahia, which was the beirut Southern Suburbs that are dominated by hezbollah, that area too, i should tell you, is now a ghost town. I actually dared to drive around the periphery of yesterday and go a little bit closer and you could see just columns of smoke everywhere of course, but more to the point, the whole area its completely emptied of civilians shots are close. Obviously, you could see, you know, light. It was quite an eerie situation because this used to be a very, very crowded neighborhood In Beiruts when its own rhythm and its own personality and now its very much a ghost town. You can see the effects firsthand when it comes to, i guess, military defeat and what that means i suppose is that now as we talk about a Ground Invasion, there is a fear of repeating history and lebanon. When we go back to the previous Israeli Occupation of South Lebanon and parts of beirut account of going through that neighborhood and few people have been there, especially given the destruction you are quoting people there as saying that look after this how can we feel anything . And you spoke to another who said the future is gone given everything that youve seen, heard, and i understand that we are just really we in the first few days after this. Did hezbollah miscalculate here, did they assume that there are signal their tactics amounted to deterrence when it didnt deter israel at all. Well, its worth noting that for a long time has been leaders have talked about this notion of the equation deterrence, or Rules Of Engagement in arabic, they would say modelica, There Idea was here, that they would basically the day it established an equation with israel, since other than six, whereby israel struck i, mean, if they kill civilians or they struck lebanese city, that has been struck israeli cities and attack israeli civilians. And the fact of the matter is that for every time israel has escalated in the last 11 months, hezbollah blinked in the sense that yes, it would love additional Rockets Yesterday with love additional missiles but, escalation is, were not really, or the responses perhaps were not equal to israels escalation. In each case. And frankly, at some point it just seemed that is israel understood that this notion of deterrence was no longer there. And the arsenal, although in theory impressive, hadnt been used. And so i think at that point that feeling was since there was no deterrence that they could go for it. And indeed they did. And the result is what we see now which is to say is that yes its great to say that you have a deterrence and that you have a missile or much of the Missile Arsenal but if youre not willing to use it at some point, then questionable idea. And to follow up on that, do you believe hezbollah can retaliate in a forceful way now or is this really going to be up to around to in its words, Avenge Nasrallah is dead well, the question is finally, i mean, right now has hezbollah can still fire these rockets on northern israel. Indeed, it did yesterday i mean, i havent seen any today, but potentially that would continue and that alone would i suppose going to be a problem in terms of letting residents return to northern israel. Now, in terms of i see mounting a serious attack in response. I dont know. I actually dont think so because the fact is leadership is now decimated as far as i can tell we still havent heard anything of a new leader. And this is now more than 48 hours after the killing of my sunlen. So the fact is they dont regroup quickly and we see some kind of action. I dont think well see me i think more than the Lowlevel Stuff that we havent seen for the last 11 months. Unfortunately really interesting perspective there and we remind everyone that so many civilians in lebanon, once again caught in the middle. Ill be i really thank you for your perspective and well continue to check in with you now after the break, us politicians react to Hello Leader Hassan Nasrallah is deaths. Our Breaking News Coverage continues right here On Cnn were watching and then the next day, our world change. Murphy has baby, quayle has cao owns coming out episodes says to the world gets okay to me george bush does not care about black people i never said something that i wrote with me to a culture war. You didnt shoot back like this you sound like tv on the edge. Moments that shaped our Culture Tomorrow at nine On Cnn bookstores, i read that one, i read that one. I read that. I didnt read that one. Didnt read that can you get this . Because i left by what way . He didnt my back pocket. My pleasure because i earned unlimited 2 cashback this is fascinating. 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