From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisie, and this is the Daily.

Israel's stunning series of military successes against its long-time foe has

Bula raised the question of whether the group's backer, Iran, would retaliate.

On Tuesday, we got the answer, with the largest missile attack on Israeli territory

in the country's history.

Today, my colleagues Patrick Kingsley and Farnaz Vassie on how Israel and Iran each see this dangerous moment and where it might lead. It's Thursday, October 3rd.

It's Thursday, October 3rd. So Patrick the Middle East was already in chaos and has only gotten worse and really seems to be on the edge of some big dangerous unknown.

Can you give us the state of affairs at 9.50 a.m. on Wednesday.

It feels like we may be witnessing some kind of paradigm shift.

The power dynamics in the region possibly shifting before our eyes.

Hezbollah, the very powerful militia in Lebanon,

adversary of Israel, a state within a state within Lebanon, is severely weakened.

Israel has been assassinating its leaders methodically over the last several weeks,

exploding Hezbollah's pages and communications devices devices mounting some of the most intense bombardments in contemporary warfare, killing many has their operatives but also many civilians. And the culmination of this was the assassination

of Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday evening.

That was a seismic event.

Nasrallah was immensely influential,

immensely powerful, and it's hard to overstate how much of a blow his death was to Hezbollah.

He was their talisman, he was their longtime leader, their strategists. In particular, he was a key

ally of Iran and he had turned Hezbollah into one of the strongest fighting forces in the Middle East

and in the process provided Iran with a strong military ally that was able to act as a powerful and menacing

deterrent to Israel should Israel ever decide to attack Iran and to destroy Iran's nuclear program.

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