It was another conflict-heavy night on the airwaves last night, with the nation’s talking heads honing in on Israel and Hezbollah’s missile exchange and a meeting between President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Charles Q. Brown.

Hezbollah exchanged heavy fire early Sunday morning, after Israel launched a “preemptive strike” on Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah responded by firing hundreds of rockets and drones at Israeli military targets in retaliation for the assassination senior Hezbollah commander Fouad Shukr last month.

Hezbollah’s response carries several messages, Lebanese political analyst and writer Mohamed Saeed Al Roz explained in a phone call with Salet El Tahrir’s Faten Abdel Maaboud (watch, runtime: 5:52). The main message is that the group can still act as a deterrence, which has been the linchpin of their existence since 2006 and defines their role in the resistance, he said. Ala Mas’ouleety’s Ahmed Moussa also analyzed the attack with military expert Samir Farag (watch, runtime: 19:32).

El Sisi + Brown: The pair discussed regional developments, with El Sisi underscoring the need for the international community to intensify efforts to diffuse tensions across the region, according to an Ittihadeya statement. In the meantime, Brown expressed the US’ eagerness to expand joint military cooperation in bid to “serve both countries’ mutual interests while supporting stability and peace in the Middle East,” the statement reads. Ala Mas’ouleety’s Ahmed Moussa had coverage (watch, runtime: 3:22).

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