In the day's other headlines Israel's military says it killed a senior Hezbollah

commander in southern Lebanon today. The commander was identified as Muhammad

Name Nasser who went by the name Abu Name. The IDF says he led a unit responsible for

shooting rockets into Israel. Cross-border fire between the two sides has ramped up

recently, sparking a global diplomatic effort to prevent all-out war.

In Israel today, defense minister O'Yov Galant told a group of soldiers that he's prepared

for any possibility.

We are striking Hezbollah very hard every day,

and we will also reach a state of full readiness to take any action required in Lebanon or to reach an arrangement

from a position of strength.

We prefer an arrangement, but if reality forces us, we will know how to fight.

In the meantime, a settlement tracking group says that Israel has approved the largest seizure

of West Bank land in three decades.

The group called Peace Now says the territory in the West Bank amounts to nearly five square miles.

The current Israeli government considers expansion in the West Bank as legal and legitimate

after Israel captured that territory in the 1967 war.

Many Palestinians see these expansions as a barrier to any lasting peace.

Much of the international community has deemed settlement expansion

a violation of international law.

Here at home, voters in two more states are closer to having abortion measures on the

ballot this November.

In Arizona, abortion rights advocates say they have more than double the

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