Iran, which backs both Hezbollah and the Hamas militants who run the Gaza Strip, launched dozens of missiles into Israel on Tuesday night. On Wednesday, Israel intelligence pressed forward, vowing to retaliate for Iran’s ballistic missile attack a day earlier, the region braced for further escalation, The Associated Press reported.

On this episode of “The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green,”, Fred Burton, former deputy chief of the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service, says the way they did it was shocking.

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