With tensions boiling over in the Middle East following the death of Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in a series of Israeli airstrikes, there are new fears of a wider war. NBC News' Matt Bradley and Courtney Kube report.
Israel’s killing of Hezbollah’s longtime leader has driven home how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set the agenda in the Middle East in recent months, with a frustrated Biden White House unable to shape events or defuse a spreading conflict in the region. Officials in the Biden administration felt blindsided by Friday’s Israeli airstrikes in southern Beirut that killed Hassan Nasrallah, and other senior Hezbollah figures, current and former officials say.
Instead, over the past year, Biden and his aides have appeared to have steadily less influence with Netanyahu. As the civilian death toll in Gaza soared, U.S. officials repeatedly made private and public appeals to the Israeli government to change its tactics in Gaza and agree to a compromise to allow for a cease-fire deal. But those appeals have failed to sway Washington’s closest ally in the region.
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