[Kinkade:] Welcome back. New tensions between Israel and its neighbors. The Lebanese army says an Israeli drone has breached Lebanon's airspace and started a fire at a farm while Israel says anti-tank missiles have been fired from the border from Lebanon. We are on the ground in both locations for you. Ben Wedeman joins us from southern Lebanon, Sam Kiley is in the north of Israel. I'll start first with you Sam. The Lebanese military managed to make a number of direct hits at an Israeli army base. Israel fired back. What is Israel saying?
[Sam Kiley, Cnn Senior International Correspondent:] Well, it wasn't the Lebanese army, Lynda. I think it was Hezbollah, a very important distinction there. Hezbollah had been threatening to retaliate for what they said was the attack they received from Israeli drones about a week ago inside Beirut. But according to the Israeli Defense Forces, they have confirmed that about two hours ago, an anti-tank missile missiles were fired across the border just about three or four kilometers from where I'm standing. If you look over just behind me there, the green area is Israel, the brown area effectively is a Lebanon. You can see how tight that border is. But they say we don't yet have any information on casualties. There are claims being made from Hezbollah but they'd hardly be in a position to know. What we do know is that the Israelis were very quick to retaliate. We suspect using artillery which has been very discreetly tucked into hillsides all along this border for just such an occasion following the Hezbollah threats and that the area civilians in the area have been told for in a four-mile or four kilometers back from the border to open their bomb shelters not to panic and not to go into the bomb shelters yet to stand by if there's any kind of red alert. There are concerns of course among the Israelis that this is the first of what may be more attacks coming from Hezbollah. There's also a hope that perhaps now that Hezbollah has struck back and taken its revenge, that tensions between the militant group in southern Lebanon and the Israelis can be dialed down because there is, of course, in the background people reflecting on both sides of the border on the disastrous for both sides war of 2006 which followed a similar incident as the one that occurred here about two hours ago. Lynda?
[Kinkade:] Thanks so much. And a good distinction you made there. Ben, I want to go to you because the Lebanese Prime Minister is calling on the French President and the U.S. Secretary of State to intervene. How is this playing out in Lebanon and what sort of international response can we expect?
[Ben Wedeman, Cnn Senior International Correspondent:] Well, first, let me just give you a feeling, Lynda, for where I am. We're in Maroun El Ras which is right overlooking the border with Israel. And according to the Lebanese army I'm just going to step out of the way so you get a better shot of this 40 rounds were fired by Israel into this area below me, these fields right next to what's known as the blue line, the border between Israel and Lebanon. So 40 rounds landing in this field below me setting fire to the fields. And we're told by people in this town that the actual strike on the Israeli armored vehicle which Hezbollah has acknowledged it did, occurred also in the background here just a few hours ago. I think at 4:15 local time which is about two hours and ten minutes ago. And this was something that was not altogether a surprise because Hezbollah has made it clear through its secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah that Lebanon would respond to the drone strikes, not just a drone incidence in southern Beirut that happened very early in the morning on Sunday, but also to an Israeli strike on a facility outside of Damascus which Hezbollah says resulted in the killing of two of its fighters there In fact, the operation, the attack on the Israeli vehicle is being claimed in the name of a group that has been named after those two Hezbollah fighters. Now, as far as the chances of some sort of diplomatic solution, at this point, it's not altogether clear. We know that Rafiq al-Hariri, the Lebanese Prime Minister has been in touch with the Americans and the French but certainly given that Hezbollah is a close ally of Iran, it's questionable whether the Americans will be willing to intervene to try to bring about some sort of calming of the situation. As far as the atmosphere here in the southern Lebanon, we did see people filling up at gas stations, others were in stores getting supplies, but in general, I think we just we can pan over again, lots of people have come here to take pictures and send messages to relatives. One man telling me that pointing to the fires behind me, that this is the price that Israel pays for what he called aggression on Lebanon. Lynda.
[Kinkade:] Right. Ben, just give us some more context here. Talk to us about the fears that this could become wider round of fighting here.
[Wedeman:] Well, you know, in Lebanon, Beirut, everyone is always predicting a war is about to break out. And certainly, this is the closest we've come since 2006 when a 33-day war resulted in more than 1,000 Lebanese civilians being killed in large parts of the infrastructure of the country being destroyed. The airport was knocked out of commission. And the worry is that this could be the beginning of a repeat of that. But it's important to keep in mind that unlike 2006 when the relationship between Hezbollah and the Lebanese government wasn't very good, at the moment Hezbollah is very much involved in the daily politics of Lebanon. It has a very good relationship with the Lebanese president and his political party. And what we've seen certainly in the last week is Lebanese politicians coming out to voice their support for Hezbollah because the Israeli drone operation if we can call it that on southern Beirut that happened a week ago came out of the blue. It was not something that was the result of any particular action by Hezbollah from Lebanon. Lynda?
[Kinkade:] All right, Ben Wedeman in southern Lebanon and Sam Kiley in the north of Israel, good to have you both with us. Thank you so much. Well, meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he wants to apply Israeli sovereignty to all Jewish settlements in the West Bank. He's not giving a timeframe. Mr. Netanyahu is speaking at one of those settlements marking the beginning of the school year. The vow comes ahead of elections this month and repeats a promise from the last vote back in April. Palestinian officials say Erekat has called for countries around the world to condemn Mr. Netanyahu's statement. Well, still to come, the northern Bahamas are in the path of an extremely powerful and dangerous hurricane. We will be live on the islands where hurricane Dorian is making landfall after this short break. Stay with us. Well, after the Bahamas Dorian is set to bring chaos to the eastern coast of the United States. Live reports also from Florida, South Carolina are ahead.