Good evening. I'm I'm I'm the Navas and I'm Jeff Bennett on the news hour tonight.

Israel kills militant group leaders in Lebanon and Syria as the U.S. Secretary of State tries

to stave off a broader conflict in the Middle East.

It's clearly not in the interest of anyone.

Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah for that matter

to see this escalate.

Defense Secretary Austin is in the hospital.

Why the White House and the public weren't told about it for days.

And hundreds of flights are canceled after the Alaska Airlines blowout

prompted federal authorities to ground the Boeing 737 Max Nine aircraft. Welcome to the news hour. As Israel's offensive in Gaza continues, a new front is heating up on the country's northern border.

Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have been trading fire and this morning

an Israeli strike killed one of Hezbollah's high-ranking members.

All this, as U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinking

travels again to the region, hoping to keep the conflict from spreading.

William Bringham reports

While visiting his troops along the northern border with Lebanon,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

warned Hezbollah that today's targeted killing could be just the beginning.

We will do everything to restore security to the north.

We gave Hezbollah an example of what is happening to his friends in the south.

This is what will happen here in the North. This comes as

Secretary of State Antony Blinking makes his fourth visit to the region. As

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