Iran inflicts costly blows to US, with Jon Elmer

You are watching and listening to the Electronic Intifada. I am John Elmer. This is the resistance report for day 916 of Israel's genocide in Gaza, day 41 of the US Israeli war against Iran and day 38 of Hezbollah's battle versus the Israeli military in South Lebanon. Uh against Israeli annexation. Let's take a look at the first map here. We're going to show the Persian Gulf cuz obviously um from the one end up at the top, this is significant portion of the past week was dedicated to uh understanding the mountains uh up in the north uh west there uh corner there of Iran after the shootdown of an American pilot. And then on the right-hand side of the screen, you're seeing the Strait of Hormuz. We already saw this morning um that uh the IRGC has given maps out to the sailors um showing where the route that they must go um over that closest island that you see on the far right. Uh just off the tip of the largest island, you can see the space in between those two islands on the far right at the top. Um that is where the so-called uh Tehran toll booth is working. Uh ships are going through there. Started a little bit, I believe, but um a lot of reports saying that the numbers are a lot higher than we're seeing right now. Um and Iran sent out a message um the IRGC navy sent out a message yesterday saying that uh vessels had to communicate with them in order to cross the strait. But the general wartime uh situation in the strait has a possibility of changing if the ceasefire holds, um in which case the toll booth can be used um presumably by uh all states because if there's not an aggression on Iran or Lebanon, hopefully on Gaza, um that that ships will be able to pass. And we heard I don't know how much it's worth talking about Trump, but we we we heard him saying that he might get in on the on the toll booth. So, he he's all over the map. Um so, it's difficult to uh predict from them. But on in in the from the Iranian point of view, they stated the statement that we have heard on this program many times from the resistance in Gaza, and we'll hear it again later on in the show from Abu Obaida. Um but they said that you cannot take through negotiations what you failed to take through war. So, these negotiations are not going to be something where Iran gives up its main uh points of ba- of uh its main points in order to just have a ceasefire. That does not uh seem to be in any of Iran's communications. They started their message about the 10-point plan by obviously talking about a deep distrust of the people that they're negotiating with considering the assassinations um the perfidious assassinations that uh preceded negotiations in the past two times in the past um and three if you want to include Gaza. Um so, that is significant. CNN reported that there's 426 tankers in the strait and 53 LNG liquid national natural gas uh tankers in the strait that are going to be moving. Um we can take that uh look at the next slide for that. Um and you can see the way that the flow through um through the Strait of Hormuz is very small is very small because it's a shallow waterway. It's a rocky shallow waterway. Um so, vessels have to pass through a smaller channel than the one that it looks like uh on this map. There's some talk that um the Hormuz toll booth uh would generate $64 billion in revenue for the Iranians. It would restore Iranian currency cuz they're taking payment in Iranian currency, um as well. Um and that they will assert sovereignty over the strait, uh henceforth. We take a look at the next map or or we take a look at the first air defense operations cuz obviously this week was defined by Iranian air defense operations, uh surface-to-air ambushes, this is the downing uh of an MQ-9 Reaper drone that we're seeing on camera here. On the next one, number four, we can see um a miss. So, this is part of the breaking down these videos is it it the implication of this video was that this has been a fighter jet that's been hit, but you can see that it's not the case. Those are um uh evasive maneuvers that it's performing right now, and you can see it dumping flares, um in order to throw off the heat seeker of the missile. So, that's what we're watching, and you can see the Iranians are trying to get lock on it. There goes the flares. Um and you can see that these videos are published, and a lot of people interpret interpret these as hits, um but we got to break down these videos for what we see. But, the point of this video is that they've been all over uh the air defense integrated air defense of the Iranians has been all over American and Israeli planes. The Israelis admit it um that the surface-to-air missile ambushes are um effective, very effective. The Israelis said they wanted to learn from that, that there was a lot to learn from that. Um and the US has been mostly telling lies, and we'll get uh into that uh shortly. Um let's go to the next one cuz this is what we saw um on Friday, uh a a an F-15 uh Strike Eagle that was uh shot down. We can see the parts of it there, the tail fin. Um it's a Strike Eagle from the 494th Fighter Squadron, which is part of the 48th Fighter Wing unit based out of RAF Lakenheath in the UK. Um, the next slide will show you more pictures that we saw on the ground. Um, the Americans were silent on this. In fact, the White House, um, the Pentagon, and CENTCOM were silent on this. The um, the CENTCOM statement uh, was one of their fact-check statements, um, where they they claim that something that was claimed happened didn't happen. Often it did happen. And in this case, through the entire weekend of this uh, plane being shot down, um, which was major news obviously in the United States, they still had up the tweet saying that it was false. Um, so lies, um, um, and and really essential omissions, um, have been uh, the defining moment since the F 15 was shot down. Um, the US said it was a shoulder-fired, while Trump said it was a shoulder-fired uh, lucky shot, uh, but it was not. And this is relevant shortly in trying to explain the particular locations of the pilot and the weapons officer and the plane itself. Um, they would later say that the F-15 was between 30,000 and 50,000 ft, um, which is far too high for the 10,000-ft ceiling of effective ceiling for most uh, man-portable air defense systems. Iran said that they were hit with a new advanced air defense system. But the altitude of the F-15, uh, when it was hit is what explains the difference between the distance between the pilot, um, who we have we have no information on the pilot. The pilot was first, the Americans say he was rescued, um, in a daylight operation 7 hours after he went down. We have lots of witness footage from on the ground showing the search but nothing that shows um, the Americans touching down but they said that they had him and that the search was now for the weapons service officer. He is in the back part of the plane and if we look at this next slide, you can see the ejection and how the way that the ejection works after the pilots have been hit. They pop the canopy off. They catapult at 20 Gs. They're literally rocket boosted out of their seats. Those arrows don't really do justice if you watch the videos of ejections. It's like a rocket launch. It's a rocket assisted launch out of the chair at about 400 miles per hour. And so depending on the height of the plane and how it was damaged, the plane sailed on for 7 to 10 minutes. The pilot was ejected at a different spot at a different fraction of a second as the plane is still traveling at 400 miles per hour and that explains why one pilot was apparently on one side of the Zagros Mountains and the weapons officer was on the other side. If we take a look at this next slide, you can see where the crash site occurred. Um and where the wreckage of the American planes that were blown up during the said rescue operation. And you'll see in this next map the reason why there was some speculation that this was a raid on the Isfahan nuclear facility based on the distance from Isfahan. Um so that shows you the Persian Gulf. We're looking at the Persian Gulf and up on the northwest western tip of the Persian Gulf is where the pilot was said to go down, but again, the pilot we only know about the pilot being rescued based on American statements. We never saw planes touch down for that part of the from for to get the pilots back to rescue the pilots. We can look at the next map as well. Okay, this is This is the planes that were shot down during So, the first rescue attempt was in the day It was in the daylight and the US lost a an A-10 Growler that we're looking at here. The the Warthog as it's known, it is a close air support plane. It was shot down and its pilot apparently bailed out in Kuwait. The plane crash landed in Kuwait during the attempt to to to rescue the first pilot. We can go to the next one now and see This is the profile of the helicopters that were shot down. These are two um combat search and rescue versions of Black Hawk helicopters. Two of these were shot down during that first day in the daylight. So, the Americans lost a significant um we can add it to the tally of significant costly losses to the Americans. Again, really sketchy reporting on this. We know they were shot down by Iranian ground fire, but again, no reports on the the state of the four-man crew. Um two of them, so eight crew members that apparently got shot out of the sky and we haven't heard anything about their conditions or whether they were injured. These two planes are search and rescue versions of Black Hawk helicopters and they're part of the would be part of the rescue uh package. And the next one we see is the um HC-130J and these are similar to the These are similar to the C-130s except these are for austere runways to land in areas to insert special forces. And we saw these planes be used in Afghanistan to insert special forces for raids, which is also part of the reason that there's some discussion about whether this was actually a fake out and a raid on the nuclear to try to The Iranians are calling it the uranium heist. Um but the evidence that we have so far isn't enough to take us down that road. Um we still have a lot to learn about this, but two of these planes that are very specific and there are not many of them in the US um arsenal were uh shot down or were blown up on the runway in the capture in the rescue of the pilots. Um so these two hundred million plus dollar planes um were lost as well. We can look at the next slides. Inside these planes are these um these MH-6 um MH sticks or AH-6 if it has um uh offensive capabilities on these helicopters, but these are special forces helicopters that are used to carry in this case it was SEAL Team Six that was doing this operation along with the um the pararescuers. Um and so again, this looks like a special forces mission. Um if you don't have the pilot involved, a special forces mission may look like the insertion that we saw. I'm still skeptical of that. I don't think the US had any intention of going on land in Iran, and I think that the amount of things that went wrong in this purported rescue operation show the signs of how difficult any kind of an operation that would have to traverse over a second mountain to reach Isfahan and then gather the materials which are unknown in an unknown location and take those back. And in terms of setting up a forward base, it wouldn't be where you would set up a forward base. It was just apparently a crop duster runway essentially. But the C-130s, the HC-130 can land in that short space. So in that moment of time when they were trying to leave the site that they had landed as the sun was coming up. The first day operations was daylight. They got lit up. They lost all their planes. So they did it the next day, the second day, they did it overnight. And as sun was the sun was coming up on the third day, their plane they realized that their plane was stuck. The C-130s were stuck and they were forced to destroy them with air strikes and to then a Delta Force unit came in and extracted the crews that were on those vehicles and removed them out. So to add, so we so they lost two HC-130s. They lost four little birds, the MH-6s or AH-6s. They lost an A-10 Thunderbolt. They lost a number of MQ-9 Reaper drones, at least two on the first day and one on the second day, um, that were shot down by Iran. Um, and they also shot down the two, uh, Black Hawk, uh, rescue versions of the Black Hawk helicopters. You can add that to the 10 KC-135s that had been lost, uh, two in a in a, um, aerial accident where six of the pi- of the crew were killed, and then the others on the runways at the airbases in, uh, Saudi and in Jordan. They've lost dozens of Reaper drones. Um, the Israelis have lost dozens of drones as well, several dozen. Um, we know about the F-15s that were shot down in Kuwait by friendly fire. They lost two, um, AWACS, um, the E-3 Sentries, the battlefield, um, uh, radar essentially over the battlefield, which is a a significant loss. So, we reported on the show last week. Um, we watched F-35s get clipped. We watched an F-18 get clipped. We watched an F-15 get clipped. So, all of these, uh, assets, um, are clearly showing that, uh, Iran has air defense systems, and, um, the shot the shoot down of the F-15, um, on Friday was right after Trump said that they had that the Iranians had zero air defenses, and then they come up with enough air defenses to, um, to effectively down, uh, the full set of, uh, um, combat search and rescue aircraft in this, uh, situation. So, um, let's take a look at what they look like on the ground now. Number 10 here. Um, you can see this video from, uh, on the ground. You could see the destruction there. You see the little birds. Um, the C-130s are completely destroyed. According to American media reports, 40 bombs were dropped from B-1 bombers on this site alone and another 100 bombs were dropped in the area around it to cut off the roads around this area to not allow anyone in and that Reaper drones were patrolling the area firing on anybody that came close. So you could see a complete destruction of these pretty significant jets and if we look at 11, you can see the little birds in particular there on the right destroyed. The little birds, they come out of the back of the C-130s. There you can see a better shot of it. They come out the back of the They're loaded onto the C-130s in their under bay. They drop the under bay and they bring out the little birds and they literally put the propellers onto them and assemble them and they can get them assembled in as little as 7 minutes from touchdown and they get those planes in the air. The story that the Americans tell is the plane was the C-130s got stuck which on the makeshift landing and couldn't get out [clears throat] and so they had to destroy everything and get Delta Force rescue force to come in on unmarked planes and extract everybody that was involved in that operation. Again, a lot of information that we don't have yet. Um we'll stay on top of that story and I think that story's going to be in the news for quite some time. Of course, it wrapped by the Americans saying that they had recovered both of the pilots. The both the pilot and the weapon service officer. There was a lot of talk all weekend about what it would mean for Iran to capture those pilots and in the end uh uh in the end from what we know, that the the the rescue operation was according to the Americans successful, although full of catastrophic mistakes. Now let's look at the targeting that we always do, the mapping of the targets for Iran and the region. This is the map we've been using the whole time, but it's a good idea. It's a good one for showing you the key bases, Al Udeid Air Base in Kuwait and the Naval Support Activity headquarters of the Fifth Fleet, the Navy that oversees Central Command area of been hammered throughout this war. The airbases in Kuwait, you can see the number of them. Kuwait is a key hub for the Americans since the Gulf War, but particularly through the Global War on Terror as they called it in Iraq and Afghanistan. Bahrain targeted, Qatar targeted, the UAE has been hit a lot. And we can see those bases are were continued to be targeted this week. Let's take a look at the missile strikes. I have made you another missile mix in order to show you basically all of the launches over the past week. There's been more than 100 waves of ballistic missile and drone attacks. That's how the IRGC has organized their attacks under waves and the waves can be smaller or larger. They can they can go all day. Some waves have four and five parts to them. So it doesn't indicate the number of missiles fired um cuz that varies throughout the throughout this war the numbers, but we're talking dozens to several dozens and we're talking about on Israel air raid sirens in Israel 10, 12, 15 times a day. They got some different shots here of the missiles in the in the sunset, I guess you could say. They added that artistic flare to see the missile more than just off of the ground. These were this for one example, the 96th wave the IRGC said that it was a response to the enemy attack on the B1 Karaj Bridge, which was a brand new bridge leading out of Tehran. Obviously, a civilian bridge and in response to that the Iranians said that they targeted the they targeted civilian infrastructure in various countries. They said a severe attack on a refinery and supply supplying fuel for the child killing fighter jets of the Israeli entity in Haifa, an attack on American gas facilities, Exxon Mobil Chevron located in the UAE, a missile attack on the petrochemical facilities producing fuel materials for the American armed drones and military products for the Israeli entity in Al Ruwaysh United Arab Emirates. We can see these videos have changed over the course of this battle, but always very telling to see the difference in the missiles launched. We saw their high-end missile top top shelf missiles like the Sejjil being fired. We saw one Haj Qassem be fired, which hadn't been used previously in the war and again, it matches with Iran's statements that in the beginning of the war they were firing their old stock and in the later parts of the war are getting into their more capable missiles that are much more difficult to intercept and we've seen that both in the Gulf countries, but also in Israel itself. Just one more of the missile launches. This is the view from Shiraz. uh Um Ahmed talked about how they have demonstrations on the streets. There's been 100 waves of missile attacks. There's been 60 waves of army attacks, and there's been 40 straight days on the streets protesting and in solidarity with Iran on the streets. And this is missiles fired over that demonstration in Shiraz. So this is what the people of Iran This is a civilian camera from people in Iran showing the missile launches as Ahmed reported earlier on the show. If you didn't catch that, you should go back and check it out cuz it's a great interview from on the ground in Iran. Um [snorts] Let's take a look at the missiles arriving in Israel. We've got audio in for the next two slides. Again, so you can see just a direct hit we're looking at from an upper floor of an apartment building. We watch the red streak, and then the camera gets blown off the balcony by the blast wave of that first strike. Let's look at the second strike. Same thing, a strike through civilian area that you would be told is targeting civilians, which Iran hasn't done throughout this war at all. In fact, if we look at the next slide, you can see what the target was. It was the total loss of a drone factory in Petah Tikva that was hit by an Iranian ballistic missile. This is a factory of aerosol um aviation. It builds pilot gear, bomb components, drones, um all of which are for the Israeli uh military. Uh and you can see that's a direct strike on it, an accurate hit, um clearly the target. Um and so if Iran wanted to put accurate hits on um apartment towers in Tel Aviv, they can certainly do that. Um they have chosen to not do that at this point uh in the war. Um and that is why it's the same in the Gulf. The Gulf targets have been the same, and that's why across Israel and all through the Gulf um the numbers of dead are only in the 30s, and most of them are foreign workers. Um I mean, foreign workers is a a generous term to describe uh many of the conditions of the workers in the Gulf countries. Um clearly being forced to work uh when others are taking shelter. but that explains it, and you can see here a direct hit. The factory is basically doesn't exist anymore. Um a significant warhead uh struck that. Now, let's look at some drone attacks here coming up. Number 18, I think we're on now. Uh IRGC drone attacks carried out by the naval uh force here um targeting HIMARS batteries in Kuwait, a US Patriot system in Bahrain, ATACMS missile sites in uh in Bahrain as well, a gathering of senior US military commanders in the UAE. Um the Oracle building in the UAE, so specific targets related always to the targets that the Americans and Israelis hit. Um these are retaliation retaliatory strikes, and uh Iran maintains escalation dominance when Israel or the US escalate so does Iran. We can look at the next one is the army because the army is separate from the IRGC but they're fighting their own battle. Number 19 is Artesh they call the army. You can see them launching their Arash two drones. These are specially built long range um uh drones that have stealth capability, a solid warhead and are aimed are designed for long range strikes on Israel and Jordan because in this case they targeted the Al-Azraq airbase in Jordan which is Muwaffaq al-Salti which is the key hub for as they say a strategic important strategic and command center of the aggressor Israelis uh in the West Asia region and the Americans that base is used by both of them. And as the war has gone on we've seen more um a little more detail. We see the the launched cruise uh now more. Um you can see um their expressions, their comments before launching. Of course a lot of these drone and missile strikes are dedicated to uh to martyrs sometimes martyrs as recently as a few minutes before the attack sometimes going um all the way back to uh key resistance figures um all through the battle. Um and we've seen that all throughout this war. Um the uh attacks on the second part of these uh Artesh attacks were on petrochemical plants after Israel hit uh petrochemical plants in Iran um and they responded right away with these hits on petrochemical facilities in Kuwait and elsewhere in the Gulf. Um Netanyahu bragged after hitting the petrochemical sites that um, he said that the targeted sites were a money machine that brought in revenue for the uh, Iranian government at some point somewhere else. Uh, they said that it was 18 billion dollars, which is uh, fraction of the amount of money the Americans have given the Israelis um, in their um, uh, for their allowance. Um, so those are the uh, army drone strikes. Um, you can look at number 20 here because we got a satellite footage um, of a THAAD, another THAAD battery destroyed at Prince Sultan Air Base in in Saudi Arabia. And of course in the statement to the New York Times, Planet Labs, who is the primary um, satellite that uh, satellite provider that people use. Um, and the reason why we haven't seen battle damage assessment since the first week of the war when we saw them losing literally billions of dollars in radars. Um, Planet Labs said to the US government request was made for safety and operational security reasons. It would be voluntarily, we will be voluntarily withholding imagery over the area indefinitely until the conflict ends and switch to a managed distribution of image deemed to not pose a safety risk. So, not clear what the safety risk is of showing battle damage. Um, they don't obviously need the satellites to target these because they're uh, battle damage assessments. So, they already hit it. So, I don't know what um, what argument could be made for safety. This is clearly naked propaganda and and censorship um, following the uh, Israeli the way the Israelis uh, keep keep the the satellite providers out of distance. That's why we never get good satellite images of Gaza. People wondered, why is it that we get this nice clear satellite image where we never saw anything like that in Gaza. You basically have to You have to be able to read tea leaves to understand the distance and the resolution quality that we get on Israeli satellite imagery. Okay, let's look at another lost aircraft, a Chinook US Chinook lost on base in Kuwait. And as we do every week, number 22 is the Iraqi front. The Iraqi front has been battling in this in this 40-day war so far. They joined immediately on day one. They've executed more than 850 operations targeting Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, but especially concentrated on US positions in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan, particularly the embassy and the Baghdad airport. Those are have been the main targets for the Iraqi resistance. And I've shown you one on each of the shows. So, let's take a look now at Lebanon. And I will just remind you that you are watching and listening to the Electronic Intifada. This is the resistance report for day 916. We're going to look at Hezbollah right now because Hezbollah has been fighting a fierce battle against Israel's So, Israel's suggested attempts that they were going to take up to the Litani River. We're looking at a map here on the screen that shows Israel at the bottom. The blue line is the de facto border. And then all of South Lebanon up to the Litani River. Israel said that they were going to hold. Well, they changed their mind this week that that's no longer the goal. The goal is now simply a 3-km buffer zone around the border to push fire up and as Rokia Shamseddine reported for us excellently again for the second week in a row. You can listen to that along with Nora's Gaza news report reported on the massacres of civilians that happened yesterday large wave of Israeli air strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon using 50 fighter jets dropped 160 bombs on 100 targets within 10 minutes. However, the Air Force they bragged about it even more. They said it was 60 seconds that there's their intention to carry out that heinous massacre in 60 seconds and they called it eternal darkness was the way they named their operation. So again another revealing >> [snorts] >> Israeli uh sadism I guess you could say. Um Let's take it so there's five Israeli divisions that are fighting spread across from Naqoura, Bint Jbeil and then up the Galilee panhandle over to Marjayoun and Khiam that are up on the top of the panhandle that you see on the right hand side and you can see how those places touch virtually touch the Litani River. So Israeli forces are attempting to push forward for a few kilometers, take a picture on the Litani River and say they achieved their military goals but really this week during an IDF briefing they claimed that they're no longer trying to disarm Hezbollah which they said they already did if people remember back for the last two years. They said they won that war because they blew up a bunch of people's hands with pagers in a mass terror attack and they assassinated senior leadership. So they believed that they had won the war but that was not the case because in 2024 the 60-day invasion of South Lebanon failed. Israel didn't invade Lebanon. Um they were unsuccessful and what they did achieve in Lebanon was to put five advanced military posts inside Lebanon. But they did that under the cover of the ceasefire. Um as Israel is want to do for these things um violating the ceasefire in its fundamental way. Um let's look at the next map cuz this will show um you can see it over that previous map. This is where the engagements um face-to-face fighting has happened from Naqoura on the west coast to Bint Jbeil um and then up again up at the top uh in the Marjayoun area and then up at the very top on the right, that's Khiam uh where they're facing ground forces that are repelling Israeli operations. Um we can take a look at one of those operations here, number 25 we're at now. Um this is in uh Taybeh in the uh Marjayoun area and you can see a tank here that is withdrawing. Um Israeli newspaper clippings talked about this operation cuz this was Israeli soldiers fleeing um and Hezbollah is showing us that here. That's a report from uh Mako News that says the vehicles were left behind. They left three excavators behind um during a panicked withdrawal, a panicked retreat. Information received by Mako agency indicates that during the attack launched by forces in South Lebanon, which included deep penetration into hostile territory using heavy engineering means, uh heavy fire was opened on the forces using mortars, um high-altitude rockets, and precision missiles. The incident did not end at this point. Shortly after the panicked retreat, uh Hezbollah fighters came down and encircled the uh area um in case the troops came back to get their uh what do you call excavators, front end excavators, front end loaders that they had left that they were trying to um change the geography of the land in South Lebanon to make it a little easier for them. Here is how Hezbollah dealt with that. Um launching here 122 mm Grad rockets, Katyushas as they call them in uh Lebanon. They're actually Iranian rockets. They're not Grads. Um all of these weapons are Iranians built by an indigenous uh Iranian weapons industry and many of them are built by Hezbollah. The drones um and the uh guidance systems that are added on to rockets for precision to make them precision-guided missiles, that is all done by Hezbollah. But you can see here they're pounding them uh at the site with uh with rocket fire. And rocket fire underpins all of these operations. It's been the thing that they've done the most, upwards of 7,000 uh rockets and missiles have been fired uh during this part of the war, during the last uh 30 um 38 days. Today is day 38 of this battle. Um and you can see that uh this is the field report because Hezbollah puts out these field reports every day. Um we log them and track them and it's how we can uh on this program uh connect the dots because uh and count the operations and understand uh what's going on in the battlefield because their command and control is perfectly intact. They're filing these field reports immediately. They're not delayed. Um they clearly have communication. Now we're watching them walk through what looks like an abandoned campground um but it's where Israeli forces were setting up. A Yahalom tunnel units. Apparently one soldier was killed and five were wounded in the artillery and rocket attacks. There's a bridge that they used to get over the river, the river Baidar, there to cross over and they were ambushed in this site and fled and you can see their shoes left behind there. You can see their belts, you can see their attempts. This is a a makeshift bridge to get over to this area. So, just complete abandonment and we're going to see in a moment here as the fighter works his way along. There you see a dinghy used for supplies to get across the river. And we're going to see them walk up here to the excavators, three excavators that were abandoned during the retreat. And the soldier that was killed was a lone soldier, a foreign fighter from New Jersey who didn't live in Israel, didn't have any connection to Israel, but wanted to go and fight in Israel's army and he was killed in this operation, one of at least 13 the Israelis have admitted to. Don't feel super confident that that's an accurate number. The Israelis and the Americans have been very tight-lipped about the information front in this war. There you were looking at the excavators there left behind. That one looks like it had been hit. It's got broken glass, but you can see these are the excavators that we saw in Gaza as well, Caterpillar always supporting Israeli apartheid and criminal aggressions with their gear. You can see they're also blown up through the rocket attacks that are throughout this whole video. And one of the interesting things that we're going to see throughout this report is that the military media department in Hezbollah has given the fighters cameras in a way that they didn't in the previous war. So, these are not official media These are not official cameraman or as we can see skilled cameraman, but they are recording their operations and we're seeing things because of that that we never saw in the first battle in two in 2023 and 2024. Hezbollah was very secretive about about the um about the operations about the tools that they were using and now we're getting to see a lot more in these recent videos. Let's take a look at the number 26. This is the map of the rocket strikes. So, you can see in the bottom of this map there is an inset zoomed in on the the borderline up at the top. And what Hezbollah is doing is hitting Israeli military positions, troop movements, makeshift bases. Anywhere the Israelis move to, they're being shelled from across the border all the way along more than 6,500 upwards of 7,000 rockets have been fired and they're aiming at troops all along the borders there and it's been the underpinning of this operation. Which has carried which has been using all different types of weapons, but really founded on. If you look on the left, you can see that the red circles mean the dark red circles mean more than 60 hits on the same positions or the smaller ones are 30 to 50 hits on the same position, 15 to 30 hits on the same position. So, they're just being pounded in in their their their rear bases. And as we saw in the previous video in their forward bases as well, but uh this has been critical to uh Hezbollah's operations. Let's take a look at this next video cuz this is going to uh combine all the things that I just described. Here's fighters uh the first fighter says that um we're going to show you the outside now. He's talking to the Fadi launcher here. This is a uh Fadi rocket launcher that is in a hardened shelter, truck mounted, and you can see that he is smashing out the cinder block walls of the hardened shelter, and that's what the other uh Hezbollah fighter says. He says let's show it the outside. Let's show the Fadi the outside cuz it's been hiding in here uh all this time, and there's the truck um in pretty rough shape, but it gets the job done. Um [snorts] there was a long report uh by Hezbollah about another Fadi launcher that uh we'll break down in a future show because there's a lot of detail to it. Um but you can see there from a hardened shelter. Now we're going to watch the fighters wire it up. We can see them with their control panels. These are all things that were previously never shown uh in Hezbollah operations. Um so we're seeing a lot. Um previously we would just see the launch or we might see the fighters. There you see the fighters give the victory sign before launching. Uh and this fighter who's got the camera, he says uh he says this is my first time uh with the camera, so if I flinch, don't judge me uh as the Fadi launches uh and makes uh a significant noise. Um and he's saying there's another victory sign from the fighter. So we're really seeing the fighters for the first time um rather than being behind the fighters uh that we saw in the um the first war. There's the launch um and the uh cameraman didn't flinch, so uh good on him for that, but it's important to note that Hezbollah were the founders of this military media. Um they did it going back to beta and VHS tapes um that they would deliver um to um to television stations that would show it to prove their operations against the Israelis because the Israelis just lie. And then the fighters all get back in the truck and they drive off. And so this is definitely something we never used to see um but they're driving off in the truck after a successful operation. Um so a very interesting one there. Um the next one we're going to see the multiple launch rocket system and this is um what's really again, we're seeing them in the truck on their way to the site. This is dangerous operation but uh one thing that we learned from the Israelis and one of the reasons why the Israelis don't think that they can take the area all the way up to the Litani, well, they can't because of the fighters um but also that they um they can't do it. They would take heavy losses um and also they've realized that uh the rockets aren't fired from south of the Litani. Um these are uh these larger particularly these larger uh multiple launch they they can be fired from behind the Litani River and uh many of the heavier missiles and rockets that they have have 200 plus kilometer range. So the Litani River isn't any kind of a border. Previously when they only fired Katyusha rockets, it was somewhat useful because of the range of the Katyushas but that's a bygone era. Again, we get we see in this video um the fighters all around um the the um the launcher. We see what the circumstances is around the fighters. This is a dangerous moment for them. They've got a Hezbollah flag hanging off the launcher. They're communicating with each other about the launch. Um Um yeah, and it Israel says that they that Hezbollah has between 1,000 or sorry, between 8,000 and 10,000 missiles left. This is compared to 40,000 um that they had before October 7th. But we know that before October 7th, Israel said that number was in the many hundreds of thousands. So, there's a lot of revisionist uh revisionist history going on here because Israel said they defeated Hezbollah. They clearly didn't. We're seeing Hezbollah fighting at a tempo of operations that we've never seen before in any of their previous wars going all the way back to the 1980s. Um the number of operations um in the last 2 days before the war, there was 160 operations. Here again, you can see them pulling up the truck for another multiple launch. And it's just very interesting to see um these details um from the commanders. And this fighter is addressing the camera saying that they will not leave the battlefield. Um so, significant significant develop developments on the rocket um and uh missile front here by Hezbollah. >> Let's take a look at the next one. It's uh this is a remarkable one. Um we're going to watch them set up here World War II era field guns um that we're seeing them set up here that we have never seen before, didn't know they had. Um but this is for the defense of Bint Jbeil. They said that there are uh fighter Israeli soldiers mustering uh into the south of the town. Um and so, you can see the fighters here. They're talking about amongst each other talking about uh recording this part. Is it okay to record this part? He's like, "Yeah, it's fine to record it." And you see them setting it up. You see the cameraman there uh again and these are firing off very rare weapons that I don't think many people expected to see. Um this is [clears throat] a KS-19 100 mm anti-aircraft gun that's being loaded up here and being used as an anti-personnel weapon to fire on those troops that are down in this southern area of Bint Jbeil. If this war continues, Bint Jbeil will be a major battleground strategic location. A long history of resistance in Bint Jbeil. The 2006 war essentially died in Bint Jbeil because of the resistance there. So, the the fight for Bint Jbeil will be significant. There again, the fighter with the victory signs. We see a little bit of their personality. We see the details that go into covering this. We're watching a fighter here remove the netting that that covers the the weapon in the forest. They're deep inside the forest here setting up these guns. The second one is a 122 mm towed howitzer. So, a full-on World War II era field gun that they're going to fire with the rope that you can see there pulling it off and it's a massive blast. But, these kind of guns, should they have enough um ammunition for them, will definitely slow the advance of the Israelis. Although, for Hezbollah's fighting doctrine they're not they're not treating the Israelis entering the town the city the town it's really a town of Bint Jbeil as the defeat. They're not fighting for a single rock. Nasrallah said it many times before that our fighters are more valuable than a piece of of stone. So, they're not going to hold some arbitrary line. They're going to encircle and fight a guerrilla warfare that that doesn't allow the Israelis to take control of the city and when they are in the city, they will be hit regularly and you can watch this be fired out of the bush and it's pretty remarkable bush that you see there. This is the the nature of the fight in South Lebanon and part of the significant advantage that Hezbollah has on this territory. Let's take a look at the next one because we are seeing here the underground missile bases of the Hezbollah fighters. We're watching here a flashlight fighter walking down into a tunnel apparatus. He chose one direction, but it looked like he could have gone two directions. Same with that one there. He could have gone to the left. He went to the right suggesting that these missile silos, these missile bases are significant. They're not single they're not single rail, but here they're now walking in this cave in this tunnel and they're going to turn here and you're going to see the rail launcher here for the Qader precision guided ballistic missile. There's Imad Mughniyah, the the military architect of Hezbollah. uh always saluting the fighters. We saw it in Gaza. We saw it in Iran. We always see it in Lebanon, but you can see the single rail there. So, this is being launched from underground on a single rail. It could be launched the you saw at each of the turns when he decided to go left or right, you could see a blast door at each of those turns and that's how you know it's a fully functioning missile silo because those blast doors have to be blocked at all times for the launch and and it's why the Israelis can't defeat the missile silos in Iran. We're going to find that in this two-week period of time, Iran is going to dig out their buried silos in so far as they were hit, they can simply be dug out and here's Hezbollah showing the locations of these missiles because they were high value targets. They targeted the Hakirya, the IDF's headquarters and Amman, their military intelligence and barracks on this operation was March 26th. We're getting these videos about a week delayed. About a week after the operations we're getting them and you can see even just from week to week the the improvements in targeting and the tempo of it, the number just the straight number of operations. There you see Nasrallah under this. And the second 622 mm Qader-2 that carries a 400 kg warhead is aimed at the human shields base IDF base in Tel Aviv, the Hakirya, the campus is the headquarters of the IDF in Tel Aviv and it's completely surrounded by civilians even though it's a new it's an old base but it's been modernized and they embrace the fact that it has human shields in downtown Tel Aviv. Number 31 is a map about anti-tank operations because using rocket as cover fire keeping troops behind the lines under fire. The anti-tank ops are the first level of defense of the territory in South Lebanon. Again, these match up pretty straight pretty directly with the Israeli areas to press on. You can see anti-tank operations. This is from the first month of the war so this goes to April 1st from March 2nd and they're they're talking about 136 Israeli tanks have been targeted along with 25 other vehicles, bulldozers, Humvees we've seen be hit. Um but again, that map just gives you a sense of where those anti-tank operations are, and you can see the massive hole in the middle of what is supposed to be the area uh that Israel says that it's going to claim, and you can clearly see after a month that they have um barely They've barely advanced because they already were in forward positions inside Lebanon because of their positions in the ceasefire. Um so they're really only moved one ridge forward uh in this entire 40-day battle. Um let's take a look at 32 because the anchor of these operations, of course, are these Almas attacks, these um uh cloned Israeli Spike systems. And this here is the longest we've seen uh the setup of the Almas anti-tank guided missile uh launcher here. You can see the fighters setting it up. And again, this is just a a totally different view than we had seen of them before. We maybe got this view that you're seeing here now with the fighter uh holding on, just about getting his readings in, and just about to launch. You can see his spotter beside him. We might have gotten just the front half of that in previous videos, but now we see the way the tandem the team works together. Um these are uh hunter-killer teams, uh tank-killer teams um firing these top-attack anti-tank guided missiles that come as the name suggests, from above, which is um partially designed to um evade uh countermeasures, uh active protection systems from the Israeli military. But here we're going to see him put it right through the hatch uh of that uh Merkava tank there. Um this operation was in Al-Bayda. So right near where the uh the troops fled from uh earlier on. And again, you see the footage because we're on the missile with the Almas. Um and number 33 with gets to these drones. Israel showed us uh the drones that the quadcopter drones that we've seen um been flying. Uh Israel showed us wanted us to see what they looked like on the ground, and I'm not sure that that was the best idea because uh what it shows is a brilliant uh setup by Hezbollah. Clean, smart, cheap, easy to assemble with resilient, undetectable uh supply chains. They're using common parts that are in all kinds of other things um that make it impossible to stamp out the supply chain. They're all easily available. And at each component, at each choice that they've made here from the battery pack to the propeller to the brushless motor, um to the weight, the number of batteries per pack, um all of these are interchangeable and can be uh tweaked as uh necessary for heavier um warheads. And you can see the warheads there. You may remember those from Gaza. Those are anti-tank warheads. Those are just single-charge 80-mm anti-tank warheads, high-explosive warheads. Um I I expected we would see more tandems like we see Yasin 105s. Um it's possible that Hezbollah just doesn't have a lot of those because they trained their forces to be tank killers and they use the Cornet system and they use the Almas system, um which are far heavier, more effective uh systems. Whereas in Gaza, they didn't have the ability to import, and a smart move for them was to make super light, uh very easy to use, uh put it uh a weapon in the hand anti-tank weapon in the hand of every fighter that has the ability to penetrate um the Merkava tank, um not nearly as much as a Cornet or an Almas. And so, it's possible we have seen some tandems in Hez- in Lebanon, but we see Hezbollah using them for the RPG-29, um, which is a shoulder-fired, um, system. And it's just a far more effective to use the tandem, uh, warhead in the RPG-29 rather than on these, um, uh, quadcopters that we're seeing. But the the total build here, these are all parts parts that are costing, you know, propeller, carbon fiber frame, brushless motor, customizable battery array, uh, custom flight controller based on the weight, the camera, the transmitter, the antenna. All of these choices were smart choices, widely available, all used in other applications. That's what we've seen for Iran to, uh, stifle sanctions, for the Yemenis who are under blockade, um, to use these parts that are not specific to this one, uh, drone, like using Chinese G drones that don't allow you this kind of flexibility. So, this is really a brilliant move that, um, Israel's accidentally showing and presumably showing other resistance groups, um, as well. So, it's like, you know, to put this entire package together minus the warhead, um, it the range is something you could get them for 150 bucks. Um, the top end of the range was a few hundred dollars. So, let's say $250 per drone. Um, and they have been really effective. Um, let's take a look at how effective they've been. I made a, um, uh, a stitch up here, a mixtape, if you will, uh, of a bunch of drone strikes. And again, look at the topography here that they're fighting in, that Israel has to navigate through these low-lying areas, uh, in the mountains. Here we're going to see a tank get hit and aimed at the tracks for a mobility kill of that tank. Because as we you from Gaza, Qassam never fired these single round warheads at a tank because they don't penetrate. Um so what you have to do is you have to pick your targets, you have to hit tracks, um you have to put it through open doors that we're going to see in a bit here um and and to make them effective cuz they're essentially carrying an RPG warhead underneath the you can see the the propellers there on the upper right and the um the anti-tank missile is underneath. So there we saw the back door of an Amar troop carrier which makes perfect sense. We saw from Qassam's uh targeting documents that the back door is where they are targeting from. Here's an an Ayalon. This is the first Ayalon uh wheeled fighting vehicle that we've seen but watch he'll bypass the Ayalon and go right into the base and take it right into through the front door of the base. This is a hospital that Israel's using. They evacuated the hospital, destroyed it and now they're using it as a base. Um you're going to see the pilots. Even just the development of the pilots in the in the four weeks of this war is significant. Rather than barreling into that uh target, he's looping around to see if there's a better target. Here he sees uh an unarmored or lightly armored uh Humvee and it's attacked. So these uh we've seen adaptation of the uh targeting system as well um under underpinned by the adaptation to create these drones uh in the first place. Here they're coming down on another set of Ayalons. That looks like a school. Um I couldn't I couldn't uh pinpoint which school it was but um they're using them and here you see them assembling. Again, something we would never see from Hezbollah. We saw this a little bit from Qassam um but assembling the uh the drone there from the various parts and it's easy to do. Anyone can do it. You don't have to have your drone specialists. Um you don't have to have a special supply chain that could be cut off. Um, it's all just really smart, um, wise way of conducting guerrilla warfare in the 21st century. And this is a D9 armored bulldozer and an excavator that we're seeing. Again, Qassam would fire this weapon at a bulldozer, so this makes, uh, what the resistance calls an appropriate weapon, uh, fit for purpose, if you will. Um, so we've seen those adaptations. People might remember back a couple weeks ago when I was showing these. Um, we showed there underneath towards the engine, uh, trying to hit the engine block for a mobility kill. Early on in these videos, we saw some of them where they were flying them and just hitting off the turret of the tank, which is the most heavily guarded or one of the most heavily guarded, uh, uh, parts of the tank. Now, watch what they do here. There's a Merkava tank. Watch how the back door is open and they're going to put it right in through the back door there. And it looks like he hits the the bottom of the back door, but if you're detonating an anti-tank weapon in the in the entranceway of a tank, you're making an absolute mess. And, again, casualties just don't match what we're seeing there. Um, let's look at, uh, 30. Where are we on now? Is this 36, the Ababil? This is the Ababil T. This is a Hezbollah-built drone. Uh, also, you can see with the forward canard wings there that distinguish it from the other drones that they fire, the Sa'ed 107. Although, we're going to see Sa'ed 107s entering Israel there. You can see the wooden propeller to lower the radar signature on these. Um, they have a bit more distance, um, than and can carry a bit heavier, uh, warhead than the Sa'ed 107s. Um, these are also built by Hezbollah from Iranian drone Um, specs. I'm not sure what the word to use there is. Um, from designs. Um, and this is how the resistance axis is fought. And this is the realization of the resistance axis throughout this whole battle. Um, number 37 we are on now. We can see a drone coming in in Israel. You can see the Sayyad 107 flying over. You're going to see the rat-a-tat uh Israeli flag there. It looks like it's been a tough war for Israel judging by those flags. Um, they seem sad. And then um, there's two shots from civilians of the uh Sayyad 107. And now let's look at some air defense operations. Uh, number 38 here. Uh, we can see them using the Misagh. This is an Iranian uh uh man-portable surface-to-air missile. There we see the Apache helicopter. They're going to miss. Uh, they're going to miss the helicopter. But they show us everything that went into setting that up. The helicopter has a lot of advantages over uh that particular missile. Although you see the helicopter make a uh bee-line to land. He didn't want to be up after that near miss. but it's here just let's watch this for 1 second. See, you can see how they set up. And that's something we never would see before from Hezbollah. Okay, let's look at number 39. This is um the more uh ones we're more used to here. Uh, through the scope here. Um, you can see they're going to use uh here another This is a North Korean HT pattern man-portable air defense system. They're going to fire it against an Elbit uh Hermes 450. And there you go. Minus one uh Hermes 450. Well, one of four that have been shot down in the last few weeks. This is a second generation SA-18, um man portable uh surface-to-air missile, MANPADS as people may see jargony people use. Um a direct hit, so another strike there. And then one last Hezbollah video because I think this one uh really wraps up how Hezbollah feels. You're looking at a uh Fateh-110, possibly a Fateh-360, short-range ballistic missile. Um and you see they're a fixing a sticker. There you see uh Naim Qassem, Nasrallah, and uh the Virgin Mary. Um there's Nasrallah again on the missile. You see uh there's Musa Sadr, Imam Musa Sadr there. Um and then on this on the missile is a sticker that says um "It's for the people of South Lebanon." And the message says, "You will return to your homes with your heads held high, oh honorable people of the South." And then it says on the missile launcher it says the classic Qassam line, uh "It was not you who threw, but God when you threw." Um so they have that on the the missile launcher there. And these are very effective short-range ballistic missiles that are the same short-range ballistic missiles that Iran is firing at the Gulf. Um and so these are doing damage, and these are targeting uh Israeli military bases and installations, which we get no coverage of whatsoever. I showed you that drone factory that got blown up because it was in the middle of a city. But the bases that are outside of the city, we're not hearing anything about casualties, about hits. It's all being kept secret. Um and just on the final note, let's uh turn to Gaza here. Um Abu Obaida, um the new Abu Obaida who replaced uh Hudhayfah al-Kahlout who was assassinated um during the war. Uh, Abu Obayda gave a speech today uh there the other day, two days ago, um saying that we emphasize that what the enemy failed to take from us with tanks and genocide will not be taken from us through politics and negotiations. He blessed the people of Gaza for their steadfastness and sacrifice. Um he said after a war of genocide and ethnic cleansing and then some of the most horrific massacres in modern history, the aggression can continues to expand spreading across the region. It launched a treacherous aggression, Israel launched a treacherous aggression against Iran in the most deceptive negotiations in full coordination with the United States. The true nature of the Zionist entity has been exposed revealing its weakness and total dependence on external support for help. Um for it will not last amid global silence and double standard, the world demands concessions only from the Palestinians while ignoring the occupations violations and refusal to honor agreements. The occupation continues targeting civilians to create chaos, turning safe zones into death traps, restricting aid and movement. Um he also says that we received with great pride the message from the Islamic Republic addressed to our people through the spokesperson uh Ibrahim Zalfaqari um dedicated to the operations uh dedicating operations, putting them on missiles um to our fallen leaders such as Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Yahya Sinwar. The actions of the fighters in Iran, Lebanon, and Yemen are extensions of the Al-Aqsa Flood punishing those responsible for those war crimes. We declare full support for Lebanon, its people, and its resistance and renew our call for the fighters of the Lebanese resistance to turn direct confrontation into a real opportunity to capture US soldiers. And he ends by saying, "Once again, we emphasize that what the enemy failed to take from us from with tanks with politics and negotiations. Qassam is not disarming. As you know as a regular viewer of this show, that is the resistance report for week uh for week six of the Iran war and day 916 of the genocide in Gaza.