Fierce resistance confronts Israel’s Lebanon invasion, with Jon Elmer

You are watching and listening to the Electronic Intifada. I am John Elmer. This is the resistance report for day 923 of Israel's genocide in Gaza, day 48 of the US Israeli war against Iran, and day 45 of Hezbollah's defense of South Lebanon. Let's take a look first at the Strait of Hormuz and then we'll get to Hezbollah's combat videos shortly. Just a a new view here for the Strait of Hormuz, obviously the center of the uh world economy right now hanging on by a thread. The International Monetary Fund said there would be a global recession. They described it as the biggest supply disruption in world history and we're only just beginning it. Um there's a good shot on the screen there of the area in question and it also shows the depths of the water and just how shallow the strait is. Um how shallow the gulf is and at this current point the blockade went into effect, the US blockade went into effect on Sunday. Um ironically just before the American blockade went into effect more ships had exited the gulf than at any point since the war had begun. Um and so the US blockade um is attempting to snuff that out at the expense of the world's oil, gas, and then all the derivatives that come from those petroleum products that are all basically made in the gulf that you see there, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait, and of course Saudi Arabia. And the US is talking about interdicting ships. That's the way that they're planning to do it and they talked about some of that happening in Iranian waters. We'll see about that. They have not been coming anywhere near Iranian waters um partially because of um something Trump admitted to the other day that more than 110 missiles and drones were fired at the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier uh which keeps it more than 1,000 km um from Iran in the Arabian Sea. Um there's a second uh there's a third aircraft carrier, the second aircraft carrier, the um USS Gerald R. Ford is in drydock in Europe and the um George H.W. Bush is en route. We'll get to that in a moment. But this is Iran uh flexing a capability that they have always had, but they have not used um to control the Strait of Hormuz which overwhelmingly runs through Iranian waters and as Iran has said, there are wartime conditions in that strait. Namely, the enemies that are attacking Iran um are not going to be able to travel and because of that there's more than 3,200 ships stuck in uh the Gulf right now. We can look at the next slide. You can see the blockade. Um you can see the ships stacked up on either side. Those are the ships that are waiting to cross. The red ships are waiting to cross. Um but the ships that are just stuck in the Gulf are not uh lit up in this map from Maritime Tracker. Um as I said, 3,200 ships. That was as of March 18th and we know that only a small trickle have gotten out uh since then. Um we hear a lot about 20% of the oil, 20% of the natural gas, but um it's significant what uh derivatives um are also go through the strait including um helium, sulfur um and those are key. The helium supply is key in um medical um machines and a lot of chip making. Um These are core products that the world uses that are being broken in the supply chain and also some of the largest ports like the port in the UAE which is the Jebel Ali port is one of the busiest container terminals in the world they are effectively shut down. So the blockade that Trump has put in place the people that it stands to hurt the most are the Gulf countries the Gulf allies of the United States so called allies who have been definitely gotten short shrift in this war as allies of course they've been hit pretty hard. And Iran threatens to hit their actual infrastructure if this war escalates. So that map gives you a good sense. Let's take a look at the traffic scheme cuz this is the way that Iran has asserted control over the straits so those restricted area that they have created just off the coast of Oman there and inbound and outbound traffic is passing through Iranian water in between Qeshm Island and Larak Island. You can see there and then outgoing traffic is on southern side of Larak Island as well. So they have moved the shipping corridors that were through that area into Iranian waters. And you can see it's such a small amount of space but also this map shows the depth of the water and you can see how quickly along the shorelines the water it's too shallow water for um for major ships and so this is a significant development and it's very difficult to see how what the circumstances would be for Iran to give up this asset this capability that it has it has asserted over the strait after um decades of sanctions have crippled um growth in the country and forced it to be completely essentially self-sufficient. Um but also the key ships that are getting the oil from Iran are Chinese vessels. So, are the Americans planning on stopping Chinese vessels uh in the open water? So, that's obviously a major escalation should it happen. Um it's very difficult to tell by the Americans uh what's bluster and what's not cuz a lot of it is bluster. Um let's take a look at the next uh map cuz you can see the overlay of the strait. There's Iranian territorial waters. You can see those two um green lines there are the inbound and outbound. Previously, we're looking at a map here of the strait zoomed in um with Iranian territorial waters being shown here. Um and Iran and Oman's territorial waters overlap, but also anywhere through that strait you are right up against uh Iranian shoreline and Trump has made a big uh thing about destroying the Iranian navy because he has no concept of what the Iranian navy actually is. Um sinking uh 70-year-old vessels that are tied up on the docks did not destroy Iran's navy. Iran's navy is a a fleet of thousands of fast boats um that are missile um missile-mounted fast boats that can um shut down the strait in minutes with uh swarms uh on the warships. What they carry anti-ship cruise um and anti-ship uh ballistic missiles. Um and so, the uh that's the part of the navy that we haven't seen. It's the part of the navy that is um underground largely in uh believed to be based on Iranian television reports, believed to be embedded in um the sharp mountainsides, um the cliff sides along the strait, and of course the entire Persian Gulf, um the northern side of the Persian Gulf is uh Iranian uh coastal waters and the Iranian coast. So, any way of the Americans handling this, if they're going to do it with escorts, um escorts are extremely cumbersome and difficult to run, and they only carry five or six ships at a time um compared to the 120-plus that normally uh transited through this area on any given day. And each day that the strait is like this, it's going to take more than a week to recover, and we're currently on day 48. So, we're already talking about if the war ended today, the strait open completely, there was a full um you know, peace deal that allowed the Gulf to function as it was, you're a year away from fixing this. So, and every day it gets worse as well along that um uh along that vector. So, um this is really uh a global issue, and Iran uh flexing this capability, uh using its geography, flexing its geography, um is something that we're going to be watching, um and people will be watching in countries all over the world because it's going to affect everybody, everything from fertilizer to jet fuel and everything in between. Now, let's take a look at what um Iran has done. On the next map, you can see this is overlaid, Sal Mercogliano overlaid this uh map, which I think is really helpful. Um this is the the inset that you see there is from the IGR IRGC Navy. They released this um for mariners to understand the um traffic scheme, and you can see it pretty clearly there going between Qeshm and Larak Islands. Um and the area in the middle there, there was a there was threatened to be uh mined. I don't think that it has been mined, but the threat is enough to stop shipping because the main thing that is stopping shipping is insurance. Insurance companies do not want to insure these vessels under this circumstance right now, and we've seen that in the Red Sea where they still don't sail through the Red Sea even 2 years removed from the Ansar Allah threat in the Red Sea. Um shipping has gone around Africa since then, and so these are long-term impacts. The Americans say that there's 10,000 soldiers, 100 plus fighter jets and surveillance aircraft over the strait guiding this. Not sure that's going to help much. They say there's between 12 and 15 warships. Doesn't sound like enough for any kind of serious blockade. Um but this US blockade is obviously illegal. Um you can't blockade and selectively allow ships through, and that is what the US is doing. Um let's look at the next map here. We can see what the US has done during this ceasefire, and we can know that the Iranians are doing the same thing. This is C-17 heavy cargo plane traffic, and this is a visual representation from Sky Glass um that shows the routes, and you know, we call it uh uh figuratively an air bridge of weapons from the US to the Middle East. But this map shows it as a bridge, and I think that's a useful way to see it. You can see from the continental United States into bases in Europe, particularly in the UK. You can see that sharp drop in the UK. Um and then into the Middle East. They're restocking their weaponry that had been depleted, and Iran is doing the same thing. We could look at the next one is also a similar view of the same thing. This is more of a global view and this is just the C-17s from the US to um to the Middle East. It's not all flights. So, you're just looking at cargo ship cargo aircraft, the largest cargo aircraft in the world or second largest, I guess, after the uh Russian one, but 520 plus individual flights and that is the bare minimum because many don't have transponder traces for this traffic and this is only as of earlier this week. So, the US is restocking, but so is Iran. Iran uses this time to um dig out missile silos that were buried. The Americans think that when they bury a missile silo that it's gone, but it's not because there's a blast door at the end of the silo. You simply open the blast door, you dig out the launch um silo and you continue to feed those various silos through railway tracks underneath the ground and those are com- pletely uh unimpacted. So, the time uh is used by both militaries um to prepare for the next stage of the battle. If we look at number eight here, you can see um the USS Bush uh sailing. You can see it down at the bottom of Africa there going around the Cape of Good Hope. Um there was a lot of talk about that this was happening because the Bush might be afraid to travel through the Red Sea, um which is possible, although the Ford traveled through the Suez and into the Red Sea before it had its um laundry fire uh in the Red Sea. Um but the I think the the simple explanation is that when those ships are in the Suez Canal, they're completely trapped in the canal. Um they can be attacked. Their uh GPS transponders are on. They're completely trackable, whereas when they're uh going oversea, um they're less so. They can also train when they're on their way over to deploy. Um, but still gives you a sense that they're willing more willing to spend three extra days um, to get to the theater um, by traveling all the way around Africa, which is what ships are doing now that previously used to travel through um, the Suez and through the Red Sea. And you can see that happening already with tanker traffic. Tanker traffic is moving to the US to fill up with um, US crude at this point um, right now. So, there's some uh, belief that there's some benefit to the US to this blockade, but it's uh, not true. It's not going to be at all true and it's going to impact households all across the world what we're dealing with right now and going forward. So, the US blockade um, adds stupidity onto an already idiotic war that they have launched uh, against Iran. Uh, let's look at the next slide here. You can see um, I wanted to show you this. These are the uh, this is also bare minimum because we know that CENTCOM has been lying every single day of this war um, and hiding its casualties, hiding its physical casualties, and hiding its hardware casualties as well. But you can see this from the uh, the war zone they put together this graphic of lost um, ac- acknowledged lost uh, aircraft assets. Dozens of Reaper drones. I think that's um, again a light number um, but still they're talking about uh, you know, $30 million drones times dozens lost. You can see the four F- uh, F-15E Strike Eagles. Three of them were shot down in Kuwait by friendly fire. And the one that was shot down by Iranian air defenses uh, a couple weeks back. The uh, the AWACS, the advanced uh, early warning and command aircraft, the E- G- E- the E-3 Sentries. And that second one it says it's damaged. We know that that one is damaged, so um two one was completely destroyed, and one at least one more damaged on the runway. And then on the right-hand side, that's from the uh so-called rescue operation where they lost um two um cargo planes. They were HC-130 cargo They lost a pair of those. They lost four um of their little birds, and they lost an A-10 Warthog that crash-landed in Kuwait. And they also lost two uh combat search and rescue versions of Black Hawk attack helicopters. And that Chinook that you see there, I showed you on last week's show. Just wanted to uh keep the tally up about uh lost aircraft. We look at the next slide here, 9B. Um they also lost um the Navy's uh MQ-4 Triton, which is a uh $240 million uh sea surveillance drone, um and one of only 20 that they have. This went down on April the 9th. Um it crashed uh and lost its transponder disappeared uh over the um over the strait just uh just outside of the strait in the Gulf uh of Oman. But uh another significant loss for uh the US. Um let's look at the next slide cuz the uh KC-135s were also on that. These are the strategic air refueling planes, and you can see this one pockmarked like it got hit by um a shotgun. Um except the shotgun was uh a ballistic missile, presumably. Um and that shrapnel hitting it from when it was on the runway. This is one of 10 that were lost, and this is uh we can go to the next one cuz you can see it again on these. These are taken by uh aviation photographers that are in the UK that um you know, the hobbyists that are showing this this these shots are by Andrew McKelvey uh, who is an aviation photographer and he got these shots. These were um, the planes that were uh, hit on the runway at uh, the Prince Sultan airbase. So, you can see they had to patch it up and these are the ones that are flying. So, um, we can count probably uh, how many don't arrive back uh, that were destroyed. Again, we're going completely off CENTCOM. All the damage on US bases has all been kept secret. Um, but that will all come out. There it's impossible to keep that secret um, with the number of soldiers that are deployed. Um, it's just I I don't believe that they're going to be able to hide these losses uh, permanently, but we will um, we will follow it. So, that is the situation in the straight. Um, let's move to Lebanon where we are covering uh, Israel's invasion of South Lebanon. Again, you're watching and listening to the Electronic Intifada. I am John Elmer and this is the Resistance Report uh, Lebanon version here. Let's take a look at the map. We have six currently six uh, Israeli military divisions participating in this war. That would match the invasion of Gaza. But as I've been saying on this show for um, years now, the complement of a full division is not happening in the Israeli military because of the reservists who don't report back. Um, the numbers are not full complement. So, they're not the same number of troops that were in Gaza, but it is six divisions and six divisions fighting for 48 days in Lebanon um, have not been able to move more than a few kilometers. Um, the main battle right now that is happening in uh, apparently there's a ceasefire just before we went on air. I believe it when I see it. Um, but uh, Bint Jbeil in the south in the central there, um, uh, that you can see that is, um, long symbolic, uh, heart of the resistance in after the Israelis drove after the Israelis were driven out of South Lebanon and literally ran away down the hill in the year 2000. Um, and Nasrallah gave a speech, uh, in the stadium in Bint Jbeil and he called, uh, the, uh, Israelis a spider web. Um, and that has been stuck in the Israelis' craw for a generation, um, and they wanted to go back in and take Bint Jbeil. They have been unable to do that, uh, at this point. Fierce resistance, um, casualties on the Israeli side. Again, uh, sketchy casualty reporting from the Israelis, but, um, dozens, uh, are wounded, uh, a day. Um, in these battles, face-to-face battles. These battles, um, the they take time because of operational security in order to get the videos out. So, we haven't seen videos from the battle in Bint Jbeil yet, but we will, uh, as the, uh, operational security allows for it. Again, Israel's carrying out, um, heinous massacres in Lebanon targeting civilians. Um, Nora talked about it, um, uh, and Rima Shamseddine talked about it on our earlier report at the beginning, uh, about the massacre on Black Wednesday when more than 300 people were killed in, according to the Israeli Air Force, a 60-second window of time. Um, they're killing paramedics, um, at at a prodigious rate like they did in Gaza. And not just paramedics from one particular agency being targeted, but all the different paramedics agencies, including the Red Cross, are being targeted. Last night, um, there was a quadruple tap, uh, massacre of three sets of, uh, paramedics going to, um, uh, another massacre. Uh, more than 90 paramedics, uh, have been killed. So, even with the assistance of five forward bases that Israel established inside Lebanon and six divisions all on the ground fighting, there is no sign that the Israelis are advancing beyond even the first few kilometers from those points. And you can see where Bint Jbeil is on this map. It's near the border. There's also heavy fighting up in the top of the Galilee Panhandle. In the Hula Valley, that's where the Israelis are trying to reach the Litani River by the shortest possible distance. And then they take pictures on the Litani and say, "We made it to the Litani." But you can look at this map and see how far they are from actually doing that on the eve of the ceasefire, which apparently is a 10-day ceasefire going into effect today. All right, let's take a look at the first videos. Again, there's a little bit of a delay on these videos. So, we're looking at videos right now from the from the fourth week of the battle in late March. And again, these FPV first-person view drones where the pilot is viewing through the video. And we can see what the pilot sees. And you can see this first operation here. This is in Taybeh. This is in the north of the just on the other side of the Galilee Panhandle. And every one of these drone shots, you can see the destruction in Lebanon, which is Israel's primary military objective. They said they want to turn South Lebanon into Bait al-Nu'man. But look at the destruction there that you can see. We're looking I mean, it's really remarkable views. And that's why these FPV drones are so potent. There you can see the Hummer coming up the hill. The the pilot spots it, circles around here, and he's going to meet him as he comes up the road. Um, remember that there's an anti-tank warhead attached to these drones. I broke these drones down last week, so if you didn't catch last week's show, you should go back and get it because go back and watch you can get that on the resistance report playlist on our YouTube channel because the Hezbollah build is brilliant how they have done it. There you go, direct hit on a Humvee with an anti-tank missile. That is a devastating hit. We can see the next video as well. Um, this is over on the coast number we're on 14B. Over on the coast north of Naqoura. This operation came through on video yesterday. Um, you can see them marking their positions here and you can see the coast to the right. That is the western coast. We're just north of Naqoura. Um, and this is in Al Bayada. Um, and the quadcopter here is going to seek out a tank that you see it in the bottom right-hand corner encircled. And as these pilots get better week in and week out and there's another tank and an and an Nammer troop carrier there that is identifying. Previously we had seen them dive right down onto that target. But the development of the operations is grown significantly just in the time that we've been watching. Now we're watching that drone from a second camera and you see how at the bottom of that drone it's what it's carrying. It's carrying an RPG warhead. And so it's essentially carrying this RPG warhead right down onto the target. And the pilot sees through his headset how to do that and we're watching it here from a second camera. It's going to meet this tank and drop right now. Out of the sky and hit this tank. You can see the tank You can see the strike on the tank there and then the tank is going to put up a smoke screen right here in order to try to hide its position, thinking that it's a one-off attack. But here we're going to move to the tank killer teams using anti-tank guided missile strikes. Presumably, this is a Cornet strike cuz we don't see um the onboard camera that the Almas would have, but they're you're about to see um the anti-tank missile hit that tank that was attempting to cover itself. Uh another direct hit. So, this is a complex ambush using FPV drones. This is civilian footage showing from uh probably from Tyre, from Suur um just up the coast um from south of of there, and you can see um once they get the Israeli troops moving to these targeted vehicles, now you're going to see uh heavy rocket fire on the position that they established. So, complex operations being executed across all the fronts. This is one of the fronts, the coastal front. Um there's two Israeli divisions moving up the coast here um and this operation is in that area of operations. Um that's a pretty significant strike. Um we can go to the next one is another FPV drone strike. This is now um on the eastern um battle front, which is at the top of the Galilee panhandle in where Israel's uh Qiryat Shmona is, and and and this is a new Israeli base that they have established um for these operations in South Lebanon in uh again in a civilian community, as always, um using the civilians uh as a human shield, and of course then any kind of damage or destruction in the town is considered um targeting civilians. But we watch um through these videos, and if we didn't have these videos, we wouldn't be able to prove these things. That's showing the Israeli settlement and the new position there. Um these these drones can travel tens of kilometers, um you know, at the farthest reach maybe 30 uh plus kilometers, but um well within range um in the 20 to 30 kilometers. Um and that's why we see the distance traveled, and I I left these videos um for the whole flight that they showed, so you can see them moving across the terrain. It gives you a really good idea of what the battle space is like, how challenging it is uh an area to fight in. Here, the drone is coming down on the base. You can see their cars. You can see the Humvee. And if you look to the left, you're going to see a soldier um just uh off to the side there. There you see him uh off to the side of this Humvee that gets hit with an anti-tank missile, which would destroy that Humvee. Uh unclear about that soldier. Um so, that's another significant operation. Let's look at 16. Uh oh, okay, yeah. Yeah, let's look at 16. This is going to be a pair of anti-tank guided missile strikes. That was just going to repeat in that previous video. Um but, I think we got a good view of it. Um there you can see the soldiers using houses, again occupying houses as soon as they come across the border. There's the anti-tank missile. You can watch it drop out of the sky and hit directly on that Israeli troop position. Um this is southwest of Bint Jbeil. Um the Israelis are trying to move up towards and surround Bint Jbeil. Um but, they're in a fierce battle uh with the resistance um in Bint Jbeil um to prevent that, although that is not the resistance strategy. Um there's going to be a second anti-tank strike here. The the video that we're watching, we're watching smoke uh billowing from the first target. Um and you're going to see uh movement of troops for the evacuation of the wounded. Here, the Israelis have claimed hundreds of wounded. Um, but their casualty counts are as sketchy as always. You're going to see a second strike here. Uh, on that same position. So, complex, coordinated strikes all across the battle space from the furthest western point to the furthest eastern point in, uh, in Lebanon, in South Lebanon. Um, and Hezbollah is able to carry out these operations. They use the red circle uh, in the way that Qassem used the, uh, red triangle. So, uh, let's look at the next one. We've got drone strikes on it Israeli troop positions. And this is how you reach them. The Israelis, um, are being reached by these drones, both the FPV quadcopters that we're calling drones, um, but these drones are, um, the fixed-wing drones, the Sayyad 107s that they fire. Um, and they are They don't make as much noise. They have an electric propeller. Here we're watching the fighters entering the location, the targeting data. And again, it's GPS targeting data. You can basically put what window you want to put the drone into. Um, and it can hit. We're going to see here their compressed air launchers, which is also smart because it leaves a lighter, uh, heat signature from the launches. So, these fighters are We're looking at these fighters, um, completely shrouded uh, in the, um, foliage, in the bush, um, in Lebanon here, um, completely, uh, concealing the launch. And then, uh, aiming them at the targets, um, that are miles away. And that's the asset of these drones that are built in Lebanon, built by Hezbollah. Um, of course, sharing Iranian technology and insight, but built in, uh, but built by Hezbollah, and you can see that they even made the drones camouflage. So, when you're mounting the drones, they hide within the trees. And there you see the strike there on an Israeli position. Again, you can see the evacuation of apparently wounded troops, which we're hearing about dozens a day, but we haven't gotten full tallies in the same way that um they had those casualties during the war in Gaza. Let's look a look at take a look at number 18 here. This is a stitch I made of a bunch of drone ops um here targeting IDF barracks. You can see they put it on the map handy for us, so we can see where they're targeting. And again, look at just those two small rails. Um it's easy to move, easy to put into place. You can see the camouflage there. They plug in the coordinates for the strike. And they launch with the air compressor. And these are actually pretty safe operations to execute for the fighters. And it has made the drones a significant part of this stage of the battle. And again, what I to repeat, we are a week behind or or so in getting the battle videos. So, these operations are taking place when the Israelis are at a distance at a distance that they are not reachable through through the other weapons. They're being hit with these drone strikes. And as this is going on, I'll talk a little bit more about this towards the end, but rocket attacks are happening constantly during these operations. This is a stitch of three separate operations that targeted two three IDF bases and barracks in the north. And you can see those operations are very difficult to find the launch site of. Hezbollah carried out more than 230 drone operations of this style in the first month of the battle. So, you know, you're seeing dozens of these a day and they will continue because they will fire these drones on the rear guard of the Israelis, which they do. They're constantly firing rockets and drones at the back positions of Israeli troops that are mustering to come into into Lebanon. So, it's really a multi multi-faceted resistance that's happening all across the territory and all across the types of weapons and units within Hezbollah. Here you can see a night launch and again, that's the air compressor. I've shown you guys lots of drone launches at night where you see the long red tail of the rocket boost. But the air compressor just leaves that little bit of friction that you see it's more it's not a flame so much as it is the friction of the launch from the metal railings. So, that's these are These are all Hezbollah built this and they have presumably as many of them as they need for this battle because we didn't see them used that much in the first in the first major battle in 23 and 24. Although there were a couple of very high-profile operations including putting two of these side 107s into the Golani Brigade base while they were all mustering to go to Lebanon. That killed and wounded something like 60 Israeli soldiers in that single attack. So, there's the there's the side 107 going out and if we look at the next slide, I just gave you a little freeze frame so that you could see what it looks like on its exit and then now let's watch in the next one watch it arriving in Israel. And there it is on the Israeli side shown by civilians uh camera. This is going to be shot out of the air by an Apache attack helicopter. The helicopters chase them all around. Um and we don't see a ton of these getting shot out of the air. They would for sure want everyone that they do to be shown. Um and I think that they're pretty rare. They They We saw them in those previous videos. They have a very small heat signature. They're battery-powered. Some of them have have wooden propellers. Um their radar cross-section is very minimal and it's very difficult to see them. We saw in the first battle in 2024 that Israel had people literally eyeballing them um on the other side of the border. Their job was to literally watch to see them flying and then radio them in. And that was again for Israel. That was civilians doing that work for Israel that we watched. I showed you guys a 60 Minutes clip of that. Um the way that the civilians were integrated into the military to do this kind of observation of these drones um because they're very difficult to find with the traditional um military radars. Uh let's take a look at this pretty remarkable operation number 21 we're on now. This is a Ghader anti-ship cruise missile that was launched um 2 weeks back. Um launched at the sea. It's a pretty significant um weapon. And you'll see here. >> Maybe we can loop that one more time without audio and I can just point out a couple of things in this. So, this is a pretty significant missile. This is the first time we saw this in this battle. This is an Iranian anti-ship cruise missile. There you see Imad Mughniyah, who is the founder, the builder, the architect of the Islamic resistance, the military wing. Um, who was assassinated in Syria back in 2008, I believe. Um, but his forces Had Radwan is his nickname, and the Radwan forces are named after him. The shock troops, the um, the most elite fighters in Hezbollah who are fighting right now in the south. Um, so they're saluting to Mughniyah. They also dedicate this to Nasrallah. Um, there you can see Khamenei and Nasrallah, Ali Khamenei, and then his son along with Naim Qassem. Um, and they saluted them with the launch of that missile. So, pretty significant operation. Hezbollah said in the field report that they were tracking an Israeli warship off the coast that was carrying out offensive operations. Um, there was some talk at the time that it may have been a British ship that was targeted, but according to the field report, they had been tracking that vessel for hours before launching this attack and you can see the way here that they are canister launched and Hezbollah has a number of these and it's the reason why ships are not off the coast and it's the reason why the aircraft carriers that were coming ostensibly to defend Israel had to stay so far off the Israeli coast that they actually weren't much use in the because they are radars were set back too far because of missiles like this. You can see the size of it there. And these are capabilities that Hezbollah has. And they the writing on uh You know this next let's go to the next one there you see it launch. It's a ski sea skipping missile so it flies just above the sea and it got it flies below radar most radar. And [snorts] here you see them launching a Pava cruise missile. This is an Iranian cruise missile and written on it says we will never accept humiliation and our banner will never fall. We're watching it here be launched from its rail launch and we saw these I broke these down during true promise one and true promise two. The Iranians used these cruise missiles in um staggered attacks with ballistic missiles and with drones. The cruise missiles are faster than drones slower than ballistic missiles and so they make a layered a layered attack that we haven't seen in this round so much but we definitely saw it in the demonstration battles of true promise one and true promise two. So this was an operation targeting Israeli troops in the Galilee panhandle and again we're still in late March with these videos we're getting them about a week to 10 days later again because it's very difficult to get these footages through South Lebanon, but still every single day on the minute of the operations, there is clearly command and control because the field reports are filed within minutes of the operations. The field reports go all 24 hours around the clock. And many days we're seeing 80, more than 70, up to 95 operations in a day. So a remarkable tempo of operations still by Hezbollah. Let's take a look at 23. These are Fatah class. That's Haifa there they're showing you and an Israeli position south of Haifa targeting the industrial base. These are Fatah. They're either Fatah 110s or Fatah 360s. We didn't know that Hezbollah had Fatah 360s, which are smaller versions of Fatah 110s. But we're we have seemingly seen these launched several times during the war that are by appearance Fatah 360s. They're shorter range, but the Fatah 110s we have seen launched and the Fatah 110s are what Iran has been using to batter the Gulf. So you can see the launch of it there. Precision guided heavy warhead you know, real really accurate missiles that Hezbollah is using here against an Israeli base that is west of Hadera. You can see a good shot of that missile there. So these are heavy and precise missiles and we've been seeing apparently no shortage of these either. Hezbollah has promised to fight an existential battle. Naim Qassem, the secretary general spoke the other day and said that they're willing to fight till their last breath Um, and that their banner will never fall. Um, and so they're treating this as an existential battle, which I think is a an appropriate way to look at um, the fight when Israel's promising to turn South Lebanon into Beit Hanoun, which was the sort of you know, the centerpiece of the genocide. Um, So, yeah, this does seem to be an existential fight for Hezbollah and they have been fighting this battle um, very significantly cuz we can remember people we heard that Hezbollah was defeated. Um, Israel said that because they blew up some pagers and assassinated um, some senior generals and um, of course Nasrallah that Hezbollah was defeated, but we know watching this program uh, that we tracked the ground battle in South Lebanon um, right up to the point of the ceasefire and and Hezbollah was not defeated. They repelled the ground invasion at that time. Um, and they're doing it again this time uh, in even more significant ways um, using even more of their fighters. Let's look at 24 um, cuz one of the things that Israel um, So, this is actually sorry, I went ahead of myself. This is correct, 24. Um, they're you're going to watch uh, the Falaq one um, heavy rockets be here. It's 60 kilo warhead and again, we're seeing that Hezbollah military media is giving cameras to the fighters um, in a way that we never saw before. So, we see the setup um, of these operations, what goes into them, um, how many men it takes uh, qualified fighters to execute these operations and this is a pickup mounted uh, Falaq uh, Falaq um, rocket launcher. So, you're seeing a uh, pickup truck that the fighters say have no brakes. Um, they're talking to each other um, as they're driving and he's saying, "I don't want to be filmed." He says, "Don't film me. Delete it." And the other guy says to him, "What message do you send?" And he says, "The resistance is just fine." And we remember back in 2024, Hezbollah released a video when Israel said that they had destroyed all of Israel's all of Hezbollah's drones, Hezbollah released a video showing a bunker full of like thousands of drones that said, "Our drones are just fine." So, that's what the fighter says to here. And when they park here, they say that truck has no brakes, so they got to put a stone behind it. There you see the fighter putting the stone behind it. Um I guess the parking brake's blown on this one. But, you see them raise the the launcher. Um and you can see the fighters here. Um oftentimes we've been seeing the fighters that are doing these manning the control the launch controllers um have fingers missing from the pager operations. I think you'll see that in the next video. Um we've seen it in a few other videos as well. And Hezbollah has wanted to show those um because Israel thought that that was the end of the war if you blew some hands off some fighters and killed a bunch of children um with the pagers um that Hezbollah would somehow collapse. Let's look at the next one, 25. This is another one of these remarkable uh Fadi launchers here we're seeing in the underground, that preparation for it. Um Israel said that they have destroyed uh 200 uh launchers. And guaranteed they've counted this uh Fadi launcher multiple times cuz when you see it uh it's in pretty rough shape, but they still are able to use it. Um and so, just puts further lie to Israel's statistics of I mean, I don't know where they get these numbers anyway, but um you know, they've been bragging about number of barrels. So, if a if a multiple launch rocket system has 16 barrels, They're They're saying we took out 16 rocket launchers, which is just not a very accurate way of describing your hits. And even still, when hit, these launchers, multiple launchers, here you can see the Fadi launcher here. Um watch when the truck comes around the corner, you'll see that it's been hit multiple times. Um the fighters say uh they quote from uh the Quran a couple times, "Permission to fight has been given to those who are being fought." Um this is a defensive war for Hezbollah. We see them in the trucks. We never We've never seen this before in their videos. They were so tight about this kind of stuff. Um but in this round, they've shown us this video, and it's just given us a remarkable edge into understanding what goes into all these operations, the um professionalism of these different units that are normally um we only see the rockets being launched. Um we don't see the crew behind it, but you can see um the way that they camouflage their trucks, they conceal the launchers using the the trees there. We'll get a shot before there's the fighters giving the uh victory sign as we see their personalities. All of this stuff is just um it's just that's what happened. There's a fighter with who had his fingers blown off showing you them. He wants you to see them as he carries out uh these operations. And this is another Fadi launcher. The Fadi is a heavy warhead rocket. It has precision guided capabilities that had been added onto them by Hezbollah. Um and these part These play a significant part in attacking Israel's uh industrial base, but also its troops behind um the back line um where they're trying to muster to uh enter South Lebanon. So, that has been This has been the resistance report for day 923 of Israel's genocide and day 45 of Hezbollah's defense of South Lebanon.