The Place President ial Debate Tomorrow Night this is cnn Breaking News well, it is now 10 00 a. M. Here in israel and in lebanon. Im Becky Anderson in Tel Aviv and this is a live look at beirut as we speak. You can see a thick haze is hanging over the city. There. After overnight israeli Air Strikes and some 200 kilometers up the coast from where we are here in Southern Lebanon. Israel has started what it calls a limited Ground Operations, sending in paratroopers commandos, and members of the armed corps the israeli military says it is conducting quote, targeted raids that the israeli lebanese border. Israel says there will be no longterm occupation of Southern Lebanon lebanese State Media says strikes are underway at this hour in Southern Lebanon and those attacks are causing severe damage meantime, hezbollah says it has targeted parts of Northern Israel during the early morning hours the u. S. Says, israel informed it of a number of operations, including the Ground Incursion us national security Councils Spokesperson tells cnn that the mission can be a risk of risk of Mission Creep if you will, on the White House will keep discussing that with the israelis cnns Paula Hancocks is in Abu Dhabi and she has been monitoring what is going on both Over Beirut and in Southern Lebanon. And obviously this is a fastmoving story. Paula, the announcement at least of the Ground Invasion coming around 2 00 a. M. Local time. We are now some hours into that operation. What further details do we have . Well, becky, we have a team on the border saying that they had been seeing in those early hours flashes of light. They had heard the Artillery Fire in Southern Lebanon. Weve heard from State Run media, nna that there has been severe damage, as they described but in some of the villages at this point saying that theres been damage to shops, to private houses, and also to crops. As it is now light in those areas, we should get more information about what the impact on the ground has been. But weve heard from the israeli side, the military saying that they had been treated reigning for this for months, saying also that they had gained skill and operational experience from what they have been doing over recent months in gaza, they have described it as a limited at a targeted operation in Southern Lebanon. The israeli military saying that they will be focusing on a number of villages just across the border in Southern Lebanon, areas where they say hezbollah operatives are based have been operating out of and where they believed that there is hezbollah infrastructure. Now they have called it limited. There are of course, concerns in lebanon thats that it may become more than what israel says. It is they the israeli military understandably would not be drawn on how long this might last, how deep into israel, into lebanon they may go. But certainly in the past in 1982, for example, israel described a limited invasion and that ended as a bloody 18 year occupation. And just recently when israel said it would carry out a limited offensive in rafah in the south of gaza amid international Condemnation And Opposition that ended up as a significant operation where that much of the city as described by foreign media, including cnn, which was taken there by the idf. So there are concerns about how significant this operation could be. We heard from the u. S side, the u. S. President joe biden, just hours before it started calling a gain for a Ceasefire Fire but we have since heard that lloyd austin, the u. S. Defense secretary, has spoken to yoav gallant, the israeli defense minister, and he has posted on x, formerly known as twitter. Ill read you. His comments, quote, we agreed on the necessity of dismantling Attack Infrastructure along the border to ensure that lebanese hezbollah cannot conduct October 7 style attacks on israels northern communities. I reaffirmed that a diplomatic resolution is required to ensure that civilians can return safely to their homes on both sides of the border there, saying they they do say israel has a right to selfdefense fans, but they would prefer a diplomatic response. Becky well, hancocks on the story for you with the very latest. Thank you. Paula, well, Malcolm Davis is a senior analyst for Defense Strategy and capability at the australian strategic policy institute. And he joins us live now firstly, your assessment of what you have heard and seen reported to date, we are some seven or so hours after the announcement of the Ground Offensive or incursion invasion, call it what you will by israeli troops, albeit they suggest limited in scope. How do you assess what you are seeing to date certainly, i think that the goal of the israeli defense forces on the ground in this Grounding Incursion is to push hezbollah forces back to the Litani River on the other side of that river to create a buffer zone, which is free he of hezbollah forces and particularly in terms of their ability to use short Range Artillery such as mortars and rockets. So that sort of thing so that israeli citizens can return to Northern Israel to their towns and villages. There and in doing so, basically created in a safe sector from which israel can then prevent hezbollah from infiltrating close to the border the same time, youre seeing israeli airstrikes continue, both in support of that Ground Incursion, but also more directly against longer range, more distant targets such as continuing during the attacks on hezbollah, rockets and battlefield Missiles House has said that it supports israels right to defend itself from terror organizations. Very specifically has said iran Backs Terror organizations. It also at the same time says it worries about Mission Creep. So i guess that begs the question. Here for how long does this go on how, how, whats the scope of this operation . Lets talk about what the threat is. There have been some 9,300 injured launches by hezbollah on israel since October The Eighth, the day after the terrible massacre of people in israel by hamas, October The Eighth was the first time that hezbollah in this conflict launched strikes on israel. Whats the capacity of the Terror Group . And lets remind ourselves they are as far as at least their communications and their infrastructure much depleted over the past couple of weeks. But when i talk about infrastructure, im talking about physical commanders and achieve. But the actual physical weaponry they have is vast at this point, malcolm, do you just give us a sense of what the israelis are up against him . Certainly estimates coming out of us Think Tanks and elsewhere suggest that hezbollah have between 150000200000 Battlefield Rockets miss are short range missiles. Mortars, drones. The israelis have destroyed some of those in the initial yes, strikes that have occurred since this operation against hezbollah up again certainly, the attacks against hezbollahs command control, its leadership, including the attack on this rather that killed nasrallah have been quite effective. But the hezbollah forces still do have substantial numbers of these weapons many of which are hidden in civilian areas inside homes. And the challenge for the israelis is to detect these weapons and if hezbollah start to prepare them for launch, to be able to respond, earn strike quickly against those threats. Right . Now, there is obviously the risk if there is an areas of lebanese civilians being injured or killed but i think that the israelis have little choice but to continue to prosecute this war, to continue to degrade hezbollahs military capability, including these Battlefield Missiles and rockets. And for that reason, the Air Campaign has to continue. The ground campaign, i think is limited to creating, as i said, this Demilitarized Zone that extends up to little tiny river a good history in successful invasions. And paula was alluding to that in her reporting just earlier on, i wonder what you believe is different this time in 82 Ground Forces went in. They were promising a limited incursion as they are now promising the same this time it was three years before most of those israeli troops withdrew malcolm, what whats different to your mind . This time has many people say this is that there is no Military Option for success. Ultimately against hezbollah look, i think thats right in the sense that you know, supposedly you learn from operational experience. So the israelis would have learned from that earlier campaign but so would have had hezbollah. And so i think that there is the risk that history will repeat itself. These israelis will go in for yet another limited incursion on the ground. But theyll get Bogged Down because theyll have to defend that Demilitarized Zone that exists along with a Litani River obviously, the technology is different these days in terms of the ability for networked Sensor Systems to be able to monitor hezbollah movements across the other side of that river but there is the risk of israeli forces getting Bogged Down, ending up in a similar situation to what happened, then and essentially ending up in another quagmire where casualties are incurred on the israeli Side Beth them has a political consequence for Benjamin Netanyahus government and its also encourages our forces, hamas, the who ties even around to take advantage of Israelis Predicament have you, malcolm. Thank you very much indeed for joining us on what is our Breaking News this hour more Coming Up here On Cnn as you would expect, i do. They want to pause just for a moment from what is going on in this region, send it over to my Colleague Max Foster for some other news headlines. He is out of london this morning. Max. Hi, becky in the u. S. The Death Toll from a Hurricane Helene has risen now to 130 as the recovery begins and Search And Rescue efforts continue, us President Joe Biden set to visit North Carolina on wednesday. The state has reported the most this deaths from helene with 56 as well as entire towns cut off from access to aid. Official say supplies are starting to trickle into some areas though nearly 300,000 customers in the state is still without electricity according to power outage. Us, us North Carolinas Attorney General says, itll take weeks, months, and years to recover from this storm. Cnns Rafael Romo is in North Carolina with more on how residents are coping put some coffee in here, complete, surrounded by destruction without electricity. This freshly brewed cup of coffee, its a small luxury for sara tim koh. I asked my daughter, are you okay. Weve just texted her and she sent me back these horrifying pictures. I mean, it looked like armageddon and thats when theyve Tim Cook decided to travel hundreds of miles to come to the rescue of his daughter and her family, bringing food, water, gas, and supplies, buildings down houses, washed away im like, oh my god, my daughters in the middle of this and shes sevenandahalf months pregnant the baby is going to be here at about eight weeks and its my first so its exciting. I also dont want him to come early because we are not prepared the asheville, North Carolina resident and her family were among the hundreds of thousands of people left without power here in devotees stated western North Carolina with major Disaster Declarations in 25 Countys Emergency crews say they are overwhelmed, not only by the amount of people in need of help, but also because theyre unable to reach many of them cut off communities, destroyed roads and broken bridges like this one here is swannanoa are making the job of first responders and Search And Rescue teams very difficult here and western North Carolina. I didnt really know my neighbors that well. Actually until like two days ago in this asheville neighborhood, people decided they couldnt wait for help to arrive Theyve Theyve given us water, fuel, food. They organize themselves to clear their street that was covered in Mud And Debris and weve all chipped in. Weve all worked together has been really special most people in the areas devastated by the storm have no power, water, or Cell Service as Residents Line up for necessities, fema is using helicopters to deliver Supplies Sara Tempo says he was not prepared for this kind of unexpected disaster what was your reaction when he said honey, im going your way and im bringing supplies. I was like thats thats him. He lonely there for me. This is my first grandchild, her first child you know, thats a very delicate time, right . In the world . First of times, the best in people is making a big difference. Rafael romo, cnn, asheville, North Carolina the us president ial contenders is addressed the damage from the storm on monday as Residents Attempt to pick up the pieces, Vice President Kamala Harris cut short her campaigning on the West Coast to fly back to washington for a briefing on the federal response to helene. A speaker, each worker, she shared a message of support for americans dealing with the disaster over the past few days, our nation has endured some of the worst Destruction And Devastation that we have seen in quite some time and we have responded with our best with the best folks who are on the ground and here doing the kind of work that is about rising to a moment of crisis to do everything we can to lift up folks who deserve to be seen and heard while Donald Trump was in South Georgia where he helped distribute aid in some of the hard Hit Areas his visit though turned political as he falsely claimed the biden Administration Isnt Answering calls some State Leaders asked me to help trumps specifically mentioned Georgias Governor and failed attempts to get in touch with president biden, but Governor Brian Kemp dismiss those rumors confirming he indeed spoke with the president the governors doing a very good job. 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