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Again, the Israelis trying to send...

a message to Hezbollah that these types of attacks will not be tolerated.

With the Israelis again going on the offensive alongside their U.S.

counterparts across the region, we're also looking at the Gulf, where today the Qatari Defense Ministry says they shot down two Iranian fighter jets.

These were Su-24 bombers that were flying into Qatari airspace.

The Qataris have been shooting down now jets and also cruise and ballistic missiles.

So a lot of kinetic action across the region, as the Israelis say they are bracing tonight for more incoming fire.

Dana.

There's a lot of unity among the Gulf states, but they're certainly going to need some assistance when it comes to air defense.

When we look back to how all of this began, we have to look back a few years.

This has been all a domino effect across the region.

Iran's proxy inside Gaza, Hamas, launched an attack on the morning of October 7th in 2023.

That led to a war inside Gaza.

Then Hezbollah in the north was brought in.

And Gulf countries were watching all of this closely, but the threat from Iran remained.

President Trump was able to get a ceasefire together between Israel and Hamas inside Gaza and then create the Board of Peace, which broadly gave hope to the region about the future of prosperity and stability in the Middle East.

But the big roadblock, the hurdle for both the Americans and the Israelis was always Iran's supreme leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, who is now dead, and the Iranian regime.

And so there is hope in the region, despite the fact that this conflict is developing, that if the Iranian regime is taken down or heavily suppressed, that it could lead to more prosperity.

The thing that the president has done, which we've heard from so many officials, not just here in Israel, but also in Gulf nations, is develop trust behind the scenes.

He sent his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to the region to work on that initial ceasefire.