Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/israel-threatens-to-expand-military-effort-against-hezbollah Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Israel moved Wednesday to broaden its offensive into Lebanon to try to destroy Hezbollah strongholds, after naming a new commander to oversee the war. Experts analyze why the Israeli government took these steps. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. GWEN IFILL: Israel expands its war against Hezbollah. We begin in the Lebanese city of Tyre with a report from Independent Television News correspondent Alex Thomson. ALEX THOMSON, ITV News Correspondent: A month and a day of brutal war, so any convoy out of Tyre is a life-and-death gamble. Go by road in any direction from Tyre and you will be skirting the craters, the countless vehicles blown to the roadside.Breakfast time this morning, and Tel Aviv sends Tyre a propaganda shower of leaflets. The message: Don't blame us for the carnage. Blame the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah.Some vehicles — civilian or Hezbollah, it's hard to tell — still moving around the city despite Israel's threat to hit anything moving on wheels. As we walked down the street, men presumably sympathetic to the Hezbollah stopped us filming.Well, that altercation with the people who didn't want us to film happened just up that street, so good idea to move around here. This is an extremely jumpy city. By night, militiamen with their machine guns wandering around doing a kind of home guard duty for the Hezbollah, if you like. By day, you can film happily on one street. The next street, it's out of the question.Overhead, Israeli helicopters quarter the city, throwing out missile deflecting flares, yet still the Hezbollah rockets are fired out in reply.