This is CBS, I on the World. I'm John Batser.

I'm very pleased to be joined by the Executive Director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Jonathan Shanzer.

He's traveling in the Middle East.

We begin with the sound of gunfire and bombs.

Israeli military strikes near Beirut, killing at least four, writes the New York Times

in these last hours.

And the air campaign against the Houthis continues, including an assertion that the missile

expert is now a casualty.

The Houthi rebels have been decimated, is the word that the President of the United

States has been used.

And one more detail, there is conduct in the southern Gaza Strip by the IDF.

You will recall a week ago, the IDF and the third Division had gone into the northern part of the Gaza Strip

and Con Unis, which is vaguely in the center, now the southern part.

Jonathan, a very good day to you, traveling in Israel, and I come to you on the basis of

the order of gunfire.

Hezbollah has, again, vouchsafed or using cutout or it's just masquerading,

harassing rocket fire from north of the Latani River towards the border of Israel.

What are they gaining from this, Jonathan, because right now the IAF is striking back of building in southern Gaza no longer, in southern Beirut no longer exists. Good evening to you.

Good evening, John. Yeah, the Israelis identified their target as a man named Hassan Bader. And he was apparently connected both to his Bala and to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards

Kuds Force, which is the extraterritorial terrorist arm of the Islamic Republic.

This is just yet another sign, almost a garden variety sign at this point, that

Islama continues to try to reconstruct,

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