How Hizballah confronts Israel from the north, with Jon Elmer

sure so let's start we're going to start with Lebanon um because in Lebanon uh Hezbollah carried out a raid here on uh the Maron air control uh base of the Israelis which is a secret Israeli base here 8 kilometers across the border um and that's a the Israelis don't say what it does it's obviously a very significant uh base that's in control of the management and surveillance of their air power controlling their drone Warfare and it's one of only two bases in Israel they have one in the north and one in the South that handles all of this um and this is in response to the assassination of Salah harui um that nasala said the other day um was imminent and then the next day uh this attack happened and what we're seeing here is 62 missiles um fired on this critical uh Israeli base that there's no replacement for those domes are long range radar domes that are used to um basically for war um uh war planes and drones air traffic control um and intelligence and surveillance and so what we're watching here is a Hezbollah attack on this facility which shows um the video will will will go back around again but shows clearly that Hezbollah has detailed Intelligence on something that is otherwise secret um because of Israel's military censor there's a number of uh of Clauses in their sensor that would cover an attack like this you can't report on the capabilities so this is the look the view from Lebanon uh into um this Maron uh air traffic base this is the highest mountain in occupied Palestine um and it has Overlook over the whole region it's who um is in control of the assassinations for example of sahah aruri who was killed as we reported last week uh in the dock by a drone strike um as well as their attacks in Syria um and any long range uh threats from the north and so what we're seeing here is Hezbollah attacking it in detail 62 missiles um clearly hitting the base we're showing um footage from Hezbollah showing them uh hitting that base which is clear um obviously qualitative upgrade in the type of attacks coming from Lebanon this is um the deepest attack to that Point um that Hezbollah had hit inside uh of Israel when Israel changed the rules of the game by hitting the dahia they open themselves up for this type of attack and this is really the unknown question of about a war with Hezbollah is we haven't seen hezbollah's capabilities since 2006 and what's what's not clear is how much intelligence and how much their Precision guided missiles are able to hit um the targets that they want to hit with devastating payloads um and so this is just really the tip of the iceberg of if Israel was going to open uh a front in the north but we can see um that Hezbollah has this capability they're hitting here um they're hitting here with anti-tank missiles um fired from from Lebanon um which which travel below the Iron Dome so Israel's unable to knock these weapons out of the air and the IDF had to admit even though shrouded in sensors they had to admit that they had to call on their backup uh surveillance and Air Traffic Control in the north which apparently is are balloons um because there's no replacement for this base and look at this 3D modeling that Hezbollah has of every aspect of the base that they're detailing here um so I think really it's just a tip of the iceberg about what we're seeing and then just to bring the media into this the New York Times called this uh a symbolic uh like a meaningless symbolic attack that they said hit hit a small military base that's how they uh reported on this attack which is clearly a qualitative increase in the war and would be something that would be important to report on if you weren't um uh dependent on uh Israeli sensors what we're seeing there with the two circles is uh has bala's um double anti-tank missile they combined the Cornet potent anti-tank missile um into a double launcher uh which is designed to defeat Israeli tank protections um and is something that uh presumably in a war we will see a lot of um to a very significant effect the Cornet anti-tank missile is a um is a a significant increase over the Weaponry that the Palestinians have in the Gaza Strip that we've been talking about for the last uh little while um but we want to show the next one tomorrow we also show uh we we have a video here of of U Hezbollah hitting a a uh an IDF Mera tank in uh in Northern Israel occupied Palestine um so that the we're able to see in this attack both the response to the sa Salah aruri assassination which indicates that Hezbollah knows who has control over that kind of operation they're hitting the people in this air control base who are controlling the Drone Warfare U that's carrying out these attacks um and Israel responded to this attack by assassinating a senior uh field commander of Hezbollah in the radwan units which is their special forces units that are along uh the Border in this case and the the assassination like most of hasbalah Fighters we don't know who they are until after they die uh but they released uh Hezbollah released images of him yesterday and he was part of the 2006 crossborder raid that began the July uh 2006 War by capturing Israeli soldiers and exchanging them for Hezbollah and Palestinian prisoners um and so uh um and Hezbollah responded to that by reaching the safed uh Israeli military base which is 13 km across the border so we're seeing incremental increases in the war in the Sou in the north I'm sorry on the Northern front um that uh attempts to pull significant Israeli resources away from the south which is one of the balances that's happening right now and what we're um trying to understand breaking this stuff down in real time because of the Israeli military censor um because of the blackout in Gaza that that Ahmed talked about so well um we don't have all of the information um that we would normally under normal circumstances have so we're analyzing a lot of this stuff uh in in real time but um what it looks like Israel is doing in the south is trying to free up some of its forces um to move into uh to be able to combat what's happening in the West Bank and also what's happening in the north with Hezbollah because Israel has hundreds of thousands of its people out of their settlements um and they're promising not to go back to their settlements unless these radwan units these Hezbollah special forces units um are pushed back from uh the Border where they are right now and so Israel is in a real predicament here and um it's not clear to me that uh provoking a war with Hezbollah is the best idea uh at this moment and I think on electronic inat we're going to get into this more um in on a future show with uh Amal sad which would be great to hear uh her perspective on this because um it does seem like is Israel is uh kening towards war in the North so I just wanted to show you that uh those videos before we switch to Gaza I don't know if you had anything you wanted to say about that one Ally before I switch to Gaza here well I just I just think it the the point I really would emphasize is the one you made the great question Mark hanging over the north because hasbalah beat Israel in 2006 that's almost two decades ago so we really don't know what their full capabilities are and so that that is really the big question mark thanks for watching this video please subscribe to our YouTube channel hit like leave a comment these engagements help us with the YouTube algorithm and it helps us to get around Silicon Valley censorship as much as possible it does make a difference you can also support our journalism by going to electronic in.net and clicking on donate now thank you