This weekend fears spiked

fears spiked that the Israel Hamas war may escalate more broadly

across the Middle East.

Just yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued this promise while speaking

with Israeli soldiers.

If Hezbollah decides to enter the war, it will wish it was the second Lebanon war again. It will make the mistake of its life.

We will strike it with a force it cannot even imagine and the significance for it and

the state of Lebanon will be devastating.

Of course that's Netnahoo there speaking through translation.

In fact, there is already spillover.

Netnya who said those words in northern Israel,

and Israel and Hezbollah are firing on each other's positions

in the northern border with Lebanon.

In addition to the thousands of Palestinians killed and wounded in Gaza,

dozens more have been killed by settlers and Israeli forces in the West Bank.

U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria have come under attack, and the United States has ordered all

non-emergency personnel to leave Iraq.

Iranian-backed Huthy forces in Yemen, fired missiles apparently aimed at Israel.- that was a mistake. On Saturday, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced that the U.S. is sending

additional air defense systems throughout the region in response to these escalations,

in addition to transferring the USS Dwight D Eisenhower

Aircraft Carrier Strike Group to the Persian Gulf.

He explained more on ABC's this week yesterday.

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