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hello i'm 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 escalating conflict across the region, and just overnight, we learned that israel has mobilized some of its...

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Very hard to get through these whole at the swap this period of holy days and holidays without something, major, uh getting underway. yeah, and david. before we go. these israeli strikes in lebanon do risk drawing in hezbollah. and as you've noted that iran backed militia is heavily armed. so uh , is it possible to do that and not draw in hezbollah at this point? it's gonna be pretty hard , and that's why they need a general de escalation. i actually think that it's conceivable that the fact that we do have these overlapping holidays one would hope ah and celebrations, one would hope would wou...