 And for additional launches under review, the attack is the largest since the 2006 war with Lebanon. The IDF now confirming that Hamas is behind the attacks from Lebanon. The head of Hamas' political bureau Ismail Haniyeh is currently there after arriving in Lebanon yesterday and will meet with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah tonight. Also happening tonight. The Israeli security cabinet will convene at 8.30pm, but first, at this hour, an assessment with the defense minister and other members of the security apparatus. Let's head now to our correspondent, Nicole Zidik, live for us in Shlomi in the north. Nicole, talk to us about the latest. Hamda, you can see the damage from today's rocket fire, which impacted right here in Shlomi. You can see where one of those rockets touched down here in the road. Take a look behind me at some of the damage that it caused. Now, as you can see, they've already patched up the hole where the rocket hit, and people are already beginning to drive over it. But it's really the damage to the buildings that it's also really being impacted. As you can see, they are starting to repair some of it. But look at those cracked windows, completely shattered, shrapnel tearing apart much of the ceiling as well. Now, they're boarding it up because the windows were completely torn down from the attack. And it's really a scary and intense time here when we spoke to some of the residents. In fact, these are businesses here. We have a bank. We have a cafe. Even a law firm. And we spoke to one of the attorneys who works at this law firm here. Here's what he had to say about everything impacting his company. I heard from other people that my office took damage from the rocket and I came here and I saw all the damage. I heard the siren, I heard the siren, I heard the boom, I was in my home. It was very, very scary. Nicole Sirens sounding there in several of those towns along with fires where some of those rockets fell. What are residents telling you about what they experienced there? I mean, they are just absolutely terrified right now, Honda. They say when they heard those sirens being fired off this morning, they quickly grabbed their family, ran to the closest shelter that they could find. But many of them don't have shelters in their homes, which is a big problem as they are concerned that these attacks could continue since tensions aren't so high right now. And so they're lucky. They're thankful that no one was injured by all of this damage right here, surprisingly. But they're still worried that this is not the end and they're fearful that more people could be injured in the future if these clashes continue. So really a tense and emotional time out here, Honda, in fact, many of the residents who were out here just taking a look at the damage, they were very emotional yelling at each other, just kind of asking why and what do we do from here? So very a tense time. Nicole Zandik, live for us in the North, thank you. Let's bring in Etan Dengoth, former military secretary to three different ministers of defense and former coordinator of government activities in the Palestinian territories. Thank you so much for being with us. I want to ask you, you tweeted quite a lot today about the, to quote you, alertness between the days of battle on the ground escalation. Etan, Hezbollah, and you're also saying that Israel is weak and cracked. Accumulation of terrorist power backed by Etan around Israel. Finally saying that Israel is a low point in its relations with the United States. Talk to us about your views here. I brought all my views, what brought Hezbollah, and I say Hezbollah first, not Hamas, because we have to pay attention that Hamas has become the proxy of Hezbollah, which is the proxy of Tehran, Iran. So what I said is, when I wrote, is the things that I think that brought all this terror coalition around us to make its calculation and to bring a decision to launch your 35 rockets to the west side of the Galil mountains in order to create to Israel something that it's not escalation from what we are there. It's escalation to brought Israel to decide what will be the reaction between some days of clashes, or it can brought us to a war. And I say the war because I was also in 2006. Things like that, it's much more from the damage of the start than the kidnap of the two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah. So I think that Hezbollah, under the umbrella of Iran, which Hamas that is now apart from this terror coalition, decided to be killed because they analyzed few reasons that Israel is weak. Interiorly, Israel has a problem outside. Israel has showed already that it's not reacted towards what happened like in Megiddo junction, and estimate what will be Israel reaction. And this is a challenge to, first of all, Bibi Netanyahu and the armed forces, what will be the reaction. And then I say also, the reaction should be towards Lebanon as a state. It's time that we, in such case of attack of Israel, we cannot now allow ourselves to divide between Hamas in Syria or Seidon, between Hezbollah and between the authorities of Lebanon, because Lebanon is going now to a stage of collapse. And all the country is looking at the weak economy situation. Israel should react, but on the other end, we have to calculate very deeply, like also lesson from 2006, how to react. Whether we are going to react against Lebanon, and I think it should be under strategic targets against Hamas in Lebanon, and to be ready immediately, I think that today we have been surprised. We have been surprised from the amount of rockets that has been launched towards Israel, because if you have intelligence of such amount of rockets, you're already waiting with a plan to react immediately. And that shows us that we analyzed the situation we expected, and the other part, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, and some Arab countries is using the Ramadan as an excuse by analyzing Israel's weakness today to try to shake the Israeli strength by bringing the situation today. And what I mean that we have to calculate the reaction to Lebanon, to Gaza, West Bank, is Jerusalem, and inside Israel. We have yesterday a small scenario of demonstration of Israeli Arabs in Umel Fahem in other places. I think the situation is bubbling, not as a spontaneous, under a very cold way of strategic plan, and we have to take it on account for the coming. And the cabinet decision this evening will be summing. I want to make the expectations. I've been there. The meeting of the security, head of the security armed forces with Netanyahu, with minister of defense is the most important thing to bring the cabinet, the solution, and Bibi Netanyahu has to calculate a lot this evening what and how to react. We cannot to be quiet after it. It's a risk to Israel. Existence for the future if we allow it to be in such a way. Eitan, Daniel, I want to ask you, we've got about 45 seconds left. The Israeli security cabinet has not convened for two months, despite all of the political situations. Syria, now Lebanon, Iran, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip. Why now? Why now? Because Bibi Netanyahu has no choice. It means he has to get the approval under the law of the cabinet what it should be decided. On the other hand, he didn't met them before because he was busy with what's happening here on the law change. Or on the other hand, he's not trusting his colleagues in the cabinet like Bankvirus, Motrich, and the others. And he preferred to sit with the, let's say, the circle of the heads of the security forces. Now he has no choice. He has to make it. But for my experience, it will be, it will come ready and also will recommend what to decide. And they have to go with him because none Motrich, none Bankvirus, none Israel Katz, has a lot of experience going in the north. Unfortunately, a lot of time was wasted in not bringing the cabinet and teaching these people something about the north. Eitan Zango, former military secretary to Syria.