Here in jerusalem. As we continue our live breaking coverage of the war in israel on americas late newsrael, fox at night, fullr coverage of the war coming right now, but we have a Breaking Nowwe Hav news update on the Mass Shooting in lewiston, maine. The suspect, 40yearold, robert card, accused of killing 18, hamas found dead with ad selfinflicted gunshot wound. C. B. Cotton is gathering more information and we gesl get to her live in minute. Meantime, sunrise in gaza, 48 minutes away and the Ground Fighting between hamas and Israeli Defense forces is reportedl e gunfy happening right now. And the ground war hasnt. Officially even begun. And were told the expanded Ground Operation Es in the earln going are aimed at prepping the battlefield and laying a pathway for more Israeli Soldiers to join the fight. Tonight, team fox coverage. The chief National Securityov Correspondent Jennifererag with more on the u. S. Response to iranian proxy u On Americannc troops. The chief correspondent Jonathan Hunt on his experience in gaza. Our chief internationariencel Correspondent Harrigan has more on the escalating tension with hezbollah hezboll. But we begin with alex hogan. Shes live in tel aviv with the new phase in israels ground war on hamas. E alex . Mas. Good evening, terry. So were seeing again repeated airstrikes on the gaza strips we overnight. For hours, we sa saww the Skylie Light Up with artillery. H ar you can take a look at some of this footage just from earlier on tonighttilln see. This continued for hours. And the idf is also stepping up Ground Operations, a move played out with tankhs and also by sea in the last 24 hours,cusn with the idf saying that they were mainly focusing on Hamas Infrastructureamas and tunnels. And as the strikes continue tonight, the international is really weighing in with an overwhelming majority. The United NationsGeneral Assembly backed Resolution Calling for an immediate nations humanitarian truce. That resolution backed by arab states does not hold legality, but it does hold some weightd. Here in tel aviv, a Rocket Strike from gaza made a direct hit on aavfromn apartment build today, injuring three people. Three weeks into the war,apar the country still mourning those killed in the october 7th attacks. Yesterday, we visited some of those victims who are still in a mobile more the bodies the are being kept in these Refrigerated B trailers and forensic analysts are working around the clock for the lasted trail 20 days. Som but the problem is, so manyan te of these victims in these trailers were tortured. To so there is little dna evidence to go off. Arrivi unfortunately, so many of the bodies arriving hereng, we pry werent able to physically even try and prmy them open. Why is that . Many of them were burnt, severely burntntrely. If we try to move them, theyll just crumble. It is still Early Morning here it is quiet on the streets of tel aviv, but we have been hearing a lot of jets overheadhw the night. And as the strikes continue in the gaza strip, we are now s hearing a response from hamas militants saying that they are ready, fire back at israelis with full force. Israeliswe expect to hear a lotr that kind of propaganda. Alex, you. Now to the chief international correspondent, steve harrigan. Hes live in norther steven isrl with more on hezbollahs potential reaction to expanding Ground Operations in gaza. Steve trace throughout t the afternoon here, we heard a number of explosions behind me o about two miles back. Re thats where lebanon is. And it was Israeli Forces responding to strikes from hezbollah. The past two weeks, hezbollah has lobbing antitank missiles b into positions insidbinge. Northern israel, a basically contained micro war on here. Between the two sides. Today, irans Foreign Ministerrr ,hezbollah, has its finger on the trigger. There have been Protestsr Therei as well in lebanon almost on a daily basis. Many of the people in those Protestsny Calli Calling on hez to take a more active role in the fightin. Israel. I s there is no that we are in the battle. We are in this war in gaza. But the tacticr ins on how we go the confrontation are in the hands of hezbollah leadership and to the leadership of the battle. He what hezbollah decides to do next could depend on how the Ground Operation Goes Ford israel in gaza if there is a high civilian body count, there could be intense Pressureere Co On Hezbollah to join the fighting more actively, despite warningsul a israel andi United States here in northern israelte, Tens Of Thousands of israelis have already voted with their feet. They hav. E their homes. Ow when you drive up here,. You really have to bring your own food. O businesses, restaurants, homes shut down for fearat f could be ahead. Trace, back to you. Steve, well get back to you svl as well as the news warrants. Steve harrigan live for us in northern israel. We talabouk a lot about urbane warfare and how difficult the battle in gazaould be. T gaza and its not just the fact that gaza is among the most densely populated on the planet ,but it also has more than a thousand miles of these underground tunnels. Sand the chief correspondent, Jonathan Hunt, has spent plenty of time in. Und tu he joins us more with this. This is going to be a verynnl be difficult battle for the israelis. Its going to be a horrific battle for the israelirrifics. The defense minister, yoav thn todayl be agai that it is going to be a long, long battle and anybody who spent any time in gaza will know that leaving aside juste ago si the the network ofa beneath gaza city, the Maithn City In Gaza and khan yunis down in the south where theres another big network of tunnels underneath and around that City Leavin Ag that aside, just the cities themselves are so densel y packed, a Densely Builtarfare that kind of Urban Warfare is every soldiers nightmare. Now, the Israeli Soldiers anyon are probably better trained than anybody in dealing with that kindg with kin of thih they are prepared for anything. A ey have the kind of weaponavfs that other military forces around the world would love to have. A lot of technologechnology. I think were going to see that has not been used before, which play out now. E horr but this is going to be horrific. Ifnobody should think that hamas has just been planning for this since seventh. Obviously, they were planning for the aftermath of this as. They planned for the Terrorist Attacks themselves. So they have had Plenty Timeng to prepare. They know what theyre doing. And they said again toda. Y, we are ready. Specifically, jonathan, im curious about the tunnelsn n themselves. Youve been in there. What do they look like . And how formidable are they f r Israeli Soldiers . Wellll, they have been building them up for more than a decade now. Remember, hamas took over gaza t in 2007 and all part of a very Long Term Plan tunnels. Entary they were pretty rudimentary to begin with, but they have now with withte rei concrete. Theyre concrete reinforced. They have a variounforce s whereo pl they can get together and plan these things. An things. Weey have all the facilities they need. And we heard the one hostage who came out last week, the grandmother who talked, shae was talking about how much medical supplies they had. So all ol of thef supplies thate been going in before october 7th, a lot of that has not gone anywhere near the Palestinian People. Its gone straightit going downe those tunnels where its been stockpiled. They are well prepared, which is an indicationrepared. Theyve s been preparing for quite some time. Jonathan, back to you as the news warrants. Thank you. The chief National Security correspondent, Jennifer Griffin,k yo first broke this sy last night about the us striking iraniay utn proxiese in syria. She is back live at the pentagon with more on ifr that warning shot had the intended effect. Jennifer, it doesnt sound liked the strike on syria was a really effective deterrent. Well, trace, we certainly saw that there was already drone strike on u. S. Forces in iraq, t but that drone failed. It was shot down by u. S. Ow troops. So we are not sure whether iran got the message or not, but we just learned that President Biden has sent a War Powers Notification war in to congress explaining why he ordered airstrikes, those irgc sites in syria last night. In the letteinr he referenced article 51 of the un charter, which allowsf th for the right to selfdefense under international law. E he called the action necessary and proportionate. And he also vowed that there would be more if there were more attacks on u. S. Troops. Also learned that defense secretary austin spoke with his counterpart in israel, yoav gallant, tonight and underscored the importance of protecting civilians in gaza and focusing on the deliveryns of humanitarian aid delivery for civilians. Ihe said his focus is stillfocu on getting hamas to release the hostagesetting. Meantime, as the middle east stands on the precipice of a massivs e invasion traced by the Israeli Military into gaza, e il that were told could last months and could triggermy a reaction from hezbollah in the north and other iranian ths who will try to test the u. S. Military across the region, tying the back down in the middle east. Its important to look at Who Benefitsn Th right now fromts fo the actions of iran and hamas. Its notm palestinians. Its not even tehran. Its someone who we are no longer talking about every hour on the news. Russian president vladimir putin. Its no coincidence that top hamas leader nthats, including s founder, made their way for meetings with Putin In Moscow yesterday. Extins forces in ukraine are experiencing heavy losses, so much so that moscow has had to rely on iranian drones for any success on the battlefield s. We were the first to report, we you said on air last night about those u. S. Warplanes. We now know it was an f16 and an f15 that took part delivering the response to ten s days of attacks on u. S. Bases in iraq and syria bombing those two Iranian Proxy Facilities in Southern Southeastern Syria near the town of abu kamala, on the border with iraq. One was an irgc weapons depot. As we reported, and another and ammunition storage site. A senior u. S. Defense official tells fox there were no casualties at either the sites. The pentagon went out of its fay, were told, to make surr se Iranian Forces were not at the facilities they targeted. Cithis target was about as low on the escalation ladder. One can get designed to send a message to iran, not to continue testing u. S. Resolve by expanding the conflict. Its not clear that they got that message. Iranian proxies launched drone at u. S. Forces at the alasad base in iraq. It was intercepted. It was the 20th attack on ush. Bases since october 17th and the first since the u. S. Carried out the pair of airstrikes in syria last night. Its important to remember t tracy, finally, that there are 900 u. S. Troops in syriaop at small bases. Part of the antiisis mission, they are preventing about 50,000 isis affiliate men, Women And Children currently being guarded at the alhola currentl camp from being released. That would give isis the a fresh start in the middle east, of course. Those u. S. Troops are in harms sty tonight, part of this iran proxy war. And, jen, while ivt ife youg want to go back to those strikes, i just want to understand how wereo ba they from u. S. Strikes in the past . You know, they were reall y quite similar to strikes we saw in march. In fact, march 23rd, the u. S. Carried out a pair of aire we strikeres in that very same aren near deir ezzor. And it was again, to stopd been that was after u. S. Troops hadtl been targeted in and repeatedly by those iranian proxy forces. Pd you know, periodically theyve had to do this t. Messa iran seemed to get the message back then. Gebackbut the question now is, what is irans long term goal . And is the ayatollah going to order nasrallah to open up the Northern Front with hezbollah . Hezbh has 100,000 missiles, medium and long range missilesrt that target israeli cities. Trace. And that changes everything. Jennifer thriffin live at the pentagon. Jen, thank you. Lets bring in garett exner, a former marinank you,e corps sl operations officer, and nathan sayles, former ambassador at and coordinator for counterterrorism. Gentlemen, thank you both. Gentk you bod it looks like isrt appears, at least in the early tag, is taking proper steps,ld prepping the battlefield, laying a pat. H for more troopsra to go in. Is that a Fair Assessment . It is. It looks like israel is doing everything that a modern military would do before engaging in a large offensive operation. Theyre conducting shaping operations, raids and strikes. Ertarytheyre preparing the battlefield according n. Yheir operational desig they have a Success Story thats planned out. They probably prepped for for years that they would eventually have to do it. Wouldand want to move Hamas Inn Area thats thats not advantageous for them but is advantageous for the israelis. And it like theyre doinge they that in a in a very deliberate way. Yeah. Nathan, we talk about preppingw. The battlefield but the the times of israel tonight reporting that there were actually clashes between hamascy and Israeli Soldiers. Does that surprise you in the early going of these types of ground wars . , thin no trace. K i think thats all to be expected. Israelth a is being strategic and patient. Theyre not going to in to a ground war in an emotional. R they have clear strategic objectives which are very ambitious. Lets be clear. They want to degrade hamas to the point that it is no longer capable of governing the gaza strip. And they want to Destroyble T Military Capability so that its no longer capable of threatening israetol in theie way we saw horrifically on october seven. So i think h expec we have to et what were seeing now, all these Border Skirmishee Bos these relatively low grade clashes. This is just the tip of the iceberg. And we should expect to see the intensity of the conflict ramp up, maybe not overnight, maybe not tomorrow. But that is clearly where this is headed. Yeah, i want to play this this is general jack keane. Play the sound bite and well get your take on this. Garetht your garre. , you want to stop the irgc proxies from attackingo u. S. Troops, then go out thereps and kill thethen gm. Go conduct extensive multiple strikes against command and control. Their leaders, take down all their offensivleadere systes rockets, missiles and drones. Take down their entire logistical infrastructure. Ethat is what should have been done last night. Extensive strikes. Thats phase. One. Gary, basically hes saying the United States response, those strikes on syria was weak and they should have been robust. What you think . Y i think hes exactly right. You know, wevriave had 90 stri, 90 plus strikes or attacks on u. S. Service members from iran and their proxies since President Biden took office. Weve responded now four oruildn five times. And each time it seems to be a building in the middle of the desert. Theres almost no casualties for each one. If you contrast that with the last con administration in. Policy of Strategic Powerful Stras Go right after the head of the snake, it actually deters iran frof thm aggression in the region. Yeah, it really does. And nathan, you know, the former i secretary of state,ompe mike pompeo, says the only way to stop them is to t go after the leadership inside iran itself. Ive got 30 seconds fo r you. Uple well, clearly blowing up a couple of warehouses in the desert, a message, but its not the message the administration wants to sen d the it sends the message iran sees is weakness. Is they that the United Stateso prepared to talk a big game, but not actually to act to protect the lives of our soldiers. You know, we actually hit Triple Digits todae digiodayy, 100 strikes on american soldiers in syria, in iraq, Acrosssoldiers The Region since President Biden took office. You want to stop it . You cann tookt take out a coupr of empty warehouses. You go