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going to balance of nature .com and don t forget to use discount code, cnn. hello everyone. i m fredricka whitfield in new york. welcome to the cnn newsroom and we begin in the middle east, where tensions are boiling over into bloodshed on what s considered some of the most sacred holy days of the year for the world s three major religions, recognizing easter, passover and ramadan. israeli defense forces launching major retaliatory strikes in both southern lebanon and gaza this morning targeting sites belonging to the palestinian military group hamas, and just moments ago, an official told cnn that the operations in the two areas are now over as long as there are no new rocket fires. and these attacks happened just hours after dozens of rockets were launched from lebanon in what s considered the largest barrage fired from there in nearly two decades. this all follows the israeli forces led raids earlier this week on one of islam s holiest sites. the al aqsa mosque in je ....
Later, lebanese security source told my team here in beirut that those actually weren t benign targets. these actually were targets that belonged to palestinian militant groups that actually did have weapons at them. and so there s plenty of concern here that things could escalate being expressed by the un by that same source, but there s also relief about who was supposedly involved in the this barrage of rockets. from lebanon into israel, and more importantly, who was not. this is the lebanese foreign minister earlier today, listen. but we found out that this palestinians that did it not as well a at all , and it is really good that neither has well nor israel is escalating. you can hear the relief in his voice there, obviously realizing that we re hezbollah risk of things getting out of hand would be a ....
Stand on the ground here, you did just mention that a source in the israeli defense structure said that right now, these operations are over if there are no new rocket launches from gaza and from south lebanon, what we re seeing right now here on the ground on the edge of gaza and the lights that you see behind me, that is already gaza is the israelis, obviously having some pretty tense, calm here on the edge of gaza, there are still drones in the air all the time. so clearly the israelis watching the situation very closely at the same time, obviously right now it is calm here on the edge of gaza. fredricka alright, thanks so much. fred and scott, you re in beirut. how are people there? responding to all of this? hey fredricka. there is a mixture it seems of concern and also relief concerned that things could escalate further, especially given what we saw overnight and these retaliatory strikes from israel that have forced seemed to hit some pretty benign, pretty insignificant targets ....
Of rockets were launched from lebanon in what s considered the largest barrage fired from there in nearly two decades. this all follows the israeli forces led raids earlier this week on one of islam s holiest sites. the al aqsa mosque in jerusalem. and today, the df began mobilizing military reserve units while vowing to deescalate the situation. we have reporters covering both sides of the conflict. cnn s scott mclean is in beirut. let s first go to cnn s fred pleitgen live near the gaza strip. fred what more do we know about what the israeli defense forces struck this morning? either fredricka when they say that they struck several targets inside the gaza strip, a lot of them being tunnels but then also what they call research and development facilities from hamas from the militant group but obviously controls the gaza strip. obviously the israelis are saying that in some cases, hamas is actually building rockets there that are then fired ....