A senior security official told me yesterday, in 34 days, we haven't done to Hezbollah what we have done in six hours today in terms of their ability.

And this is not even counting the pager operation which Israel isn't owning up to, right?

It's not claiming responsibility for even now.

So this was a tremendous success tactically for Israel and now I'm going to say here's the bad news

they can continue on with this just shooting one anti-tank missile every two days and

we're going to still have a war. So we are trying to push them into stopping

this war, but we don't know how this will end if we don't have a deal in the South or a clear directive of the Iranians and of Nostrala that basically

admits that they have lost the war. It's 7 o'clock a.m. on September 24th here in New York City it's 2 o'clock PM on the 24th in Israel

as Israelis continue what appears to be day two of a major escalation in Israel's defensive war against Hezbollah. Once again, we interrupt our programming,

our special series of one-year anniversary conversations in order to bring you a special episode to cover the major

escalation in the north. The dove. This is becoming a habit. Yeah, it is becoming a habit and you know this war at least we're

interrupting your programming because of what looks like Israeli success stories

in this war and not because you know other developments which you know might occur

but it gives me a limited pleasure to do that when we can report good developments as far as the idea if is concerned in this war.

Nodav, if I get a sliver of upbeat-niss from you, I'll take it.

Okay. However, we have to get it.

Yeah. So, Nodav, just to go over where we are, yesterday, from what we understand

from public reports, Israel struck Lebanon hitting 1,600 targets, most of which were rocket and missile stockpiles.

And what seems like it has a little bit of a field, Zew and I were discussing offline of a

pre-6-day war operation, but we can get to that.

And this was followed by mass fleeing of civilians

from cities in Lebanon, cities in the north,

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