After Iran fired nearly 200 missiles at Israel Tuesday --nearly all of them intercepted by Israel's missile defense systems and the help of U.S. destroyers based in the Eastern Mediterranean-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated that Israel will respond. The Israeli military also said Wednesday that eight of its soldiers were killed in fighting with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. C...

The barrage of missiles from Iran followed localized ground raids by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon to root out Hezbollah fighters.

Etinger was from the Israeli settlement Eli in the West Bank. He was the team commander in the Egoz Unit in the IDF's Commando Brigade.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing retaliation for Tuesday's Iran missile attack. Most missiles did not get through Israeli defense systems, but some did. CBS News foreign correspondent Chris Livesay is near Tel Aviv with the latest.

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The Israeli operation in Lebanon is exposing the failures of U.S. efforts to de-escalate the Middle East conflict, raising the likelihood of a full-scale war against Hezbollah and testing President Biden's support for Israel's expanding military campaigns. Israel has increasingly stressed the Biden administration throughout the nearly yearlong conflict in the Middle East, as Biden...

Israel hit hard in its response to Iran's large missile attack. But exactly what kind of options does Israel have at a time when its already waging war on multiple fronts?

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For the past year, Israel has demonstrated the resolve one would expect of a nation facing an existential threat. They have, for decades, reached back to the founding of Israel in 1948.

"We'll be discussing with the Israelis what they're going to do ... [We] agree that they have a right to respond."

The need to establish deterrence has always risked cycles of escalation. As Israel and Iran trade blows, their competing views of the same events are sending tremors through the Middle East.

Eight Israeli soldiers were killed Wednesday in Lebanon, deaths that could shape the depth and scope of an Israeli ground offensive against Hezbollah.

Eight soldiers were killed in the first casualties of Israels ground campaign in Lebanon, the Israeli military said.

"The answer is no," Biden said, adding that any attack by Israel on Iran must be done "proportionally".

Before sending troops into Lebanon Tuesday, Israel carried out more than 70 operations north of the border, an Israeli official said.