This is a CVS I on the world. I'm John Bachelor. I welcome Bill Rajo, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy's Senior Fellow. He keeps the Long War Journal, where you will find the reporting by David Diute of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy who joins us

to help us understand these waterfall of headlines about Hezbollah and the IAF strikes on

rockets and missiles and drones and the decaps strikes of these last days.

Bill and David, a very good evening to you.

I begin with a series of headlines from the Times of Israel about as up to date as we can.

IDF targets head of Hezbollah's southern command in the war's fourth Beirut strike.

And Israel expands strikes on Hezbollah as panicked Lebanese flee over 270 killed and new rocket sirens triggered in

hyphen nearby towns and army says drones launched at Israel by Iran-backed militia in Iraq shot down by jets.

And PM says weighing plans for siege on Hamas in North Gaza believes half of hostages alive during closed-door

meetings said the Prime Minister.

He argued that putting pressure on Hezbollah could help force Hamas's sine war to the table. That's a reference to

Yayas sinwar, the head of what is left of Hamas in Gaza.

David, a very good evening to you.

I begin with the question about the road so far.

We started with the exploding devices, several kinds of devices, messenger devices from the old technology,

walkie-talkies from not so old technology.

Iphones long since abandoned because they have GPS. However, we then went to a strike on what appeared

to be a gathering of gangsters to plan, according to the reporting, the October 7th, an October 7th event in North Israel. What do we know about that

strike? Who is it that was targeted and who was KIA? Good evening to you, David.

Good evening, John. It's always a pleasure.

Well, from what we know, this was targeting the top military command of Hezbollah down from a Brahim

La Kille, Rahim al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Lakil, who had replaced, why it shook her it would seem, Hezbollah top

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