It's Monday, August 26th. Israel and Hezbollah launched their heaviest exchange of fire in months. We start here.

Iran-backed militants in Lebanon take aim at Israel after weeks of vowing revenge for the killing of a top commander.

Explosions and flashes of rocket fire very much lighting up the sky over the Israel-Labbonon border.

Our team explains how the strikes unfolded and why experts in the region are cautiously

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Hey Brad's out today, but I've got you covered in the meantime. For weeks now, we've been hearing about this threat of a coordinated attack by

Iran against Israel. It was supposed to be this kind of one-two punch with Hezbollah

militants in Lebanon hitting first, followed by a potentially bigger and much more dangerous

attack against Israel by Iran itself.

Well, over the weekend Hezbollah began attacking. To catch us up on what happens next let's bring in ABC's Brit Klenet who is in Tel Aviv right now.

Brit let's start with what happened early Sunday morning.

We were woken up very early by our team here in Israel who

are very plugged into what's happening and they were reporting explosions and

flashes of rocket fire very much lighting up the sky over the Israel-Lebanon border.

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