Good evening, I'm John Yang.

After Israel and Hezbollah traded cross-border attacks early today, each side signaled there'd be no further escalation.

For now, before dawn about 100 Israeli warplanes struck more than 40 Hezbollah targets in southern

Lebanon.

Israelis said it thwarted an attack.

Lebanese officials said three people were killed and two others hurt.

Short time later, Hezbollah fired a barrage

of missiles and drones toward Israel, hitting the group set a military

intelligence site and Israeli Navy officer was killed and two other service members wounded.

At a cabinet meeting this morning,

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the operation was a success.

What happened today is not the end of the story.

Hezbollah tried to attack the state of Israel with rockets and drones early in the morning.

We instructed the IDF to carry out a powerful preemptive strike to remove the threat

the IDF destroyed thousands of short-range rockets and they were all intended to harm our citizens and our forces in the Galilee.

Hezbollah's leader warned that precision missiles may be used in the future as the group

tries to stop the aggression in Gaza.

Efforts to reach a negotiated ceasefire in Gaza pressed ahead today in Cairo.

In Germany, a 26-year-old man turned himself into police saying he carried out Friday night's

knife attack in Zolligan

that killed three people and wounded eight others.

Authorities say the man is a Syrian citizen

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