From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisee, and this is the Daily. Now to the Middle East where fears of a wider war are growing.

Over the past few days, simmering tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese

militia on Israel's northern border, have reached a tipping point.

A loud explosion has been heard in the southern suburbs of Beirut's densely populated southern

dahia neighborhood, showered in debris following a precision strike by Israeli fighter jets.

Israeli military says it has carried out a strike targeting the Hezbollah commander allegedly

behind Saturdays at deadly attack in the Golan Heights.

Raising fresh fears of a wider war in the Middle East.

With the State Department insisting and all of war is not inevitable.

The following tonight's attack has...

Today, my colleague Ben Hubbard on why these attacks are different and why getting them to stop could be so tough. It's Wednesday, July 31st. The Daily has been following the war in Gaza and the risk that it could spread to the broader region.

And over the past few days, there have been this series of attacks on Israel's northern border, the border with Lebanon.

And they really felt like a ratcheting up and potentially even a turning point.

So we're talking to you on Tuesday afternoon in New York and we want to dig into what happened. Tell us what we know so far.

Well, it's after midnight here in the Middle East

and we're still reporting out exactly what happened.

What we know is that Israel carried out an air strike

on a building in a southern suburb of Beirut

that targeted a senior military official in Hezbollah.

Part of the city where Hezbollah basically runs the show.

They largely destroyed a building and Israel has claimed that they

succeeded in assassinating a senior military leader in Hezbollah.

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