Hizballah shows a range of tactics as battle with Israel escalates, with Jon Elmer

we're going to go to Lebanon now and I just want to begin by giving the rough overview of what happened yesterday at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday local time in uh in Lebanon in the middle of the day after school kids get out of school after jobs are finished after people are in grocery stores and it's the busiest time on the streets simultaneously thousands as many as 3,000 or more uh pagers uh associated with Hezbollah and their bureaucrats and their uh broad uh social network uh it wasn't a a Target that was aimed directly at Fighters you see lots of footage of these going off uh in supermarkets on the bus on the street in people's houses two children were killed 2,800 wounded 300 uh critically wounded two health care workers killed uh in the hospital because their um their pagers went off in the hospital um um and so essentially what we're looking at here is um and it was meant it was meant to hurt and wound wound and kill people because people reported that the the the messages went off and they went into their pocket to fetch the message and bring it up to the face level to look at the number and it blew up they have lots of lost eyes lots of lost uh hands um and again this is not um aimed at the military Cadre we've seen all over uh the three main places all kinds of Civilian bureaucrats within the Hezbollah uh the government they're in Parliament they are uh they have a massive social apparatus they have a sporting and health apparatus um and so this targeting um is something that the West is bragging about and the journalists in Israel are bragging about um because it is uh obviously a significant security breach for Hezbollah um it appears to be a supply chain attack um intercepting the devices at some point in the supply chain and planting explosives in it um explosives can be um like a PN explosive um could just be a couple of grams so it can be something that makes it through um the scans makes it through the security checks um and is embedded in these B in these um in the batteries of these pager devices hasala uses pager devices as a low solution to avoid cell phones um and telephone Network in general um and it has been a highly effective system until uh this operation um but the tech supply chain is a complicated and convoluted supply chain and there's many vulnerabilities in it and as we've seen uh we'll talk more in the discussion about it but even the companies that are connected to it um are saying they didn't actually make the devices um that that there other companies maybe front groups or just other smaller companies all of these all this information will come out in the coming days so we won't get too uh much into that but then today uh so yesterday's attack is in the middle of the day when kids are getting out of school today they attacked the walkie-talkie system and they attacked it at the funerals for the people who died yesterday so the walkie-talkies go off at the funerals and kill people who are at the funerals we have have nine killed as we're coming on air but again these numbers by the time we say them are going to be out of date but um again you're seeing um many killed and hundreds wounded um by this attack by Israel that is presumably them pulling a kill switch on a network that they were already in and the I think the second with the walkie-talkies um shows that that they uh they was either outed their network was either outed um and this is the the kill switch to destroy the evidence and to wound the people um an attempt to see who who got wounded um and use that as intelligence we know that there's been an intelligence breach in Hezbollah the assassination of fuad shuker uh in the dahia uh a couple months ago was a security breach that hasbalah did not expect um and in the coming days I think we'll we'll learn a lot more about this Nala is supposed to speak uh tomorrow and he'll give us uh the the take from the party and how they're approaching it um but they said uh they said today overnight they said um that the war with Gaza in solidarity with Gaza will continue nothing changes and another another Reckoning is to come so they carried out operations in the same way they um that they were the day before when their Pages weren't blowing up uh the next day today those operations have continued um so we're going to look at those operations and then we'll go to the discussion after uh and and talk about it if we look at map um X you can see this is the map of uh the Border I mean there's no border Israel doesn't have borders there's an Armistice line between Lebanon um and Israel and you can see the blue attacks are Israeli attacks and the um the orange ones are Hezbollah attacks so you can see that they're pretty much evenly distributed from the Western uh edge of the Galilee across the upper Galilee the Galilee Panhandle and then over into uh the occupied Golan Heights which was hit um last night uh after the uh pager event happened and defense minister yoav Galant um he said that security can only be restored in the north with a military operation they've been saying this for a while um Israel Netanyahu uh put together a rubber stamp cabinet War cabinet after the previous war cabinet resigned um and his War cabinet uh rubber stamped that uh the the Northern Communities going home um the 200,000 people that are out plus more than 200,000 people that are out of the 40 uh settlements along the north are are now part of the war goals Netanyahu has been saying that for a couple of months now that he's added moving people back into their communities as part of the Gaza War goal U but as we know the Gaza war ends only in a negotiation um and it doesn't look like Israel is in a position to do that and just to note that the 998th division of the Israeli military is the one that I've been talking about for the last six months because they're the division that's been raiding throughout Gaza they raided shifa Hospital the second time and created the mass grave they raided Shaya they raided uh the southern jabalia refugee camp they raided conun the second time and they were planning to come back to Gaza to raid in Gaza they were pulled yesterday up to the northern border so that Raider unit that has urban Warfare training um from the last you know six nine months 12 months because they've been in the battle since the beginning um they they are sending what you could call their most experienced Fighters up to the northern border um so when we watch The War of Attrition in Gaza we'll keep our eyes peeled on that too because um that's an interesting development because they're they're the Israelis most um battle tested uh units so let's look at number 10 tomorrow this is a um a cornate anti-tank guided missile strike here on a Israeli Convoy you can see the Convoy going up the hill there Hezbollah tracking it this is in the Sheba Farms occupied Sheba farms uh Israeli occupied uh territory from Lebanon that didn't come back um during the Israeli pullout in 2000 um and you see the cornate anti-tank uh the Iranian version of the cornate anti-tank guided missile here chasing um the field report on Saturday this attacks from Saturday it identified that as a marava I'm not sure that it's a marava it's difficult to see at the time of day and the distance that this is shot at these cornate um anti-tank guided missiles they they travel they can travel between 5 to seven um and their better ones up to 10 kilomet so it's difficult to get camera work and that's the difference between these videos and the videos we see from Gaza of course where you get the intimate uh like we just saw from sarel KS where they're basically uh spitting distance from the tank um these are long-distance operations that hbal is carrying out and this is um one of 800 anti-tank guided missile strikes that theyve carried out since October 8th in support of Gaza if we look at number 11 this is the first time we've seen this rare use of the mutka we saw this system this is a wire guided anti-tank missile system we saw it used in Gaza Islamic Jihad has one KS has one um and there's an Iranian version of it it's a Soviet weapon and you can see on this video that's a cherry picker the Israelis are using these Cherry Pickers um the the crane the lift there um because they don't they can't send their workers uh up to fix the these technical gear that Hezbollah keeps destroying um they can't get their people up there they can't get their soldiers up there there soldiers have withdrawn more than 10 kilometers from the border to be out of distance of these anti-tank goded missile strikes that we've been watching since October um so this is the first time we've seen the mutka uh used in Lebanon um and the Iranian versions called the rad it's a wire guided anti-tank uh missile system and there's three of them that you're watching here and this is part of the ongoing blinding operation shaping the battlefield for the war to come and uh that's what Israel is doing with its detonating the pagers is attempting to shape the battlefield um and this is happening uh on the northern border as well and all of these Israeli positions are coming under attack just constantly um because the Hezbollah attacks are not on civilians they're on Military uh positions if we do number 12 tomorrow we don't we can yeah um these are shahad 101s these are the drones that hezb has been using recently these are fiberglass they're lighter they're electric they don't make the lawn mower sound they don't have wooden propellers they have plastic and fiberglass propellers and this is something we've been seeing for the last couple weeks um and Hezbollah is showing us uh settler cameras showing these flying across uh across Lebanon if we flip to the next one tomorrow you can see the um I stitch together uh number 13 uh a series of um of civilian showing these and you can see them flying across they fly low they fly slow they VX Israeli uh missile defense systems and that's what you're watching people just with these cameras here watching them fly low and slow uh over their heads um aimed at they're explosive Laden one-way attack drones they are uh Precision guided um and they hit their targets and the Israelis are unable to deal with them you don't hear sirens in these vide they're not tripping Sirens um they're just flying in and hitting targets they killed a soldier last week with one um and it's something that we saw several other types of drones being used uh throughout the war but these uh shahad 101s um are interesting um and again these are targeting um bases that was a targeting of the 210th uh division base so interesting to see that this is we don't bring too many of these civilian camera ones but these Drone footage of shot by the civilians is um is really interesting okay let's look at number 14 because this is a firstperson view drone they're doing uh these loading up this um loading up these drones with a camera to take us uh on the ride and take them for the aim so you can see this is a quadcopter you can see the the the propellers there and they can aim it at the exact spot we're going to show a second camera here from the side because they've been sending in um I think that's a camera from the ground but in the next couple you're going to see that they've been sending in second uh drones to capture the first drone if we look at number 15 it's a good example of it um of the of this one here you can see we're going to watch this one come in and hit a radio frequency Jammer which is uh part of a genre of videos that I bring to you that are videos where Hezbollah targets the device that's supposed to prevent uh the the Drone that hits it uh from hitting it and so that's what we're going to see here um and then right after they move in on this one um you're going to see a second shot see there's the RF Jammer that that jams um that signals jamming to uh prevent the signals that the Drone fly on so that should drop the it should drop the Drone it should scramble the Drone um it should misguide the Drone here's the second drone that they have coming in after and you can see the damage on the right hand side side there so um they're sending multiple drones to shoot uh to shoot the uh the scene of their drone swarms and and when we saw those shahad 101s I forgot to mention we saw them taking off as a drone swarm and that's something that uh we've seen as a tactic um used increasingly where we use multiple where where they use multiple drones um to carry out these operations if one gets taken down a second one's on its way um and that's why when we saw the launch we saw it uh three ways uh we saw three be launched um and so these drone operations um where was the number it's 215 drone operations not drones operations not so if it's a drone swarm that counts as one operation for Hezbollah and they Count Their Rockets the same way there's been more than a thousand rocket attacks um and the number of rockets is something like 10,000 just since January um which is what we're going to look at next after this uh after we see this side view you can see it burning there in the right hand corner the Drone uh giving us footage so they're they're sending a a camera crew along um and then that that drone itself becomes an attack drone it turns around and goes back and it's also explosive Laden and it attacks so these attacks have been carrying up escalating uh we can do number 16 the one they've been escalating on the North hezb has been escalating gradually here we're seeing buried l launchers we've been I've shown you a bunch of uh katucha launchers um that were truck mounted but here we're seeing a much safer version and something that they have many of which is these buried launchers um it's much safer for the launch um the launch crew that you just saw there using the launch controller it's much safer for him there's no uh metal um you know truck to be seen um on um to be picked up by Drone footage or or whatever and we saw that um these rocket bursts was 8x4 um the way the katucha launchers multiple launch rocket systems eight across four down so they can launch 32 in One Barrage um and the Israeli military said there was 150 Rockets fired on Sunday and just to put that into perspective as I said there you can see the 32 uh again and this is a buried launcher um so it's um it's a lot safer for the operator and it's a lot lot more likely that you're going to conceal it after you launch um and not get it hit these are also targeting military bases this is an attack on the uh the first one was attack on the filon base which is an emergency Warehouse with the 210th division um it hand it maintains L it's a maintenance and Logistics Center and it's located 15 kilometers from the border so they're moving uh back but these are targeting bases hasbalah has killed less than 10 Israeli civilians um the mag Shams incident um we will'll leave out because it's unconcluded at that event and that is not something that Hezbollah would Target um but it was something that Israel took advantage of to make a story of it but even the 12 that died there more than doubled the number of civilians killed um and so you can see this is civilian footage of the Iron Dome um trying to deal with the those that 32 uh rocket on this base um and the numbers have gone up there's a good shot of them taking off the the buried launcher the numbers have gone up August uh was 1300 uh Rockets fired more than 50 a day uh according to shabbach Israel's internal security service and more than 8,000 rockets in 2024 which is more than double uh the July War which was sort of the rocket War standard um and it's um it's a significant number of rockets but when Israel if if Israel's pushing for an open War by setting off these pagers and car carrying out Mass attacks on civilians um and killing civilians all over Lebanon it's not in the South it's not in the south of the Lani U the phones the pagers the walki talkies are blowing up all over Lebanon um if they're trying to escalate this war their War planners are prepare are expecting 5000 th000 rockets in a day so what Hezbollah has been doing since January is the type of numbers um that that Israel would get in uh in a less than 36 hour period according to the way they believe that war is going to be fought so um that's something to keep in mind and again not targeting civilians 422 evacuated settlements 1350 border sites 250 military sites uh 450 military barracks and 200 military bases that's the targets they don't Target civilians uh unlike in Gaza where the Israelis uh are massacring civilians uh a as their War aim uh Hezbollah has kept this war in check by not attacking civilians but as we saw at the beginning they are attacking uh military vehicles and Military positions um uh in the settlements because that's what Israel has done evacuated the settlements and then used them as military uh positions and that last footage that you were seeing was the Bara base and it's the headquarters of the Patriot batteries there missile defense their Iron Dome batteries in the north the command and control of missile defense in the north and it's 12 kilometers from the border so these are qualitative attacks uh escalating uh on the northern border number 17 here is uh this is the cassam brigades uh in Lebanon uh carrying out an attack this is a u a type 63 this is 107 millimeter systems that you see being used in Gaza all the time uh this is the Kasam in Lebanon um Palestinians uh in all the neighboring countries um to the one they got uh kicked out of and um are currently experiencing a genocide in U but the fighters of Kasam in southern Lebanon uh targeted the 300th Western Brigade division headquarters so this is in the western Galilee uh with a missile Salvo consisting of 30 uh rocket a rocket Salvo a rocket Salvo with u 30 Rockets um the brigade's artillery position its maintenance center and its concentration of enemy forces so Kasam in Lebanon uh that is something to note we haven't brought you footage from them before so I wanted to bring that into um this particular operation you can see the multiple rocket launcher that's the same type of system that was in Gaza previously but we've seen that they've been hit pretty hard and the 107 millimeter rocket artillery has been fired by makeshift um launch pads which work just as well um if you get the angles um on them they work just as well as as these metal casings so uh that's Kasam in Lebanon and now one more for you here from Lebanon this is a really weird story that probably would have just fallen through the cracks um but hasala stepped up and uh gave us the second half of the story so on Sunday morning um Sunday Sun Sunday late morning um leaflets were dropped if we show 18a here these leaflets were dropped by the Israeli military uh over Lebanon over the village of alazani um in Lebanon in the Galilee Panhandle uh at the at the the node between the Galilee Panhandle and the upper Galilee um showing a grid map this is the the genocide grid map from Gaza there has been no evacuation notices um in Lebanon Israel hasn't done that uh Hezbollah has moved people out of the South um out of the areas below the Lani River uh voluntarily um but there hasn't been these these uh grid maps that are associated with the genocide and the ethnic cleansing uh in Gaza forcing people to go uh to move based on these number grids um and that sign says the the notice says which is signed by the Israeli Defense Forces it says um it says all residents Hezbollah is firing from your area you must leave your homes and move north by 4 P.M and not return to this area until the war is over all who are present in the area after 4m. will be cons considered terrorists and you'll be slaughtered um that's the Diplomatic language from this um and obviously when these landed uh people in Lebanon took a picture of them and it wasn't clear at the time on Sunday what the scope of This was um if it was an Israeli operation what the scope of it was um we've never like I said we we don't we have no examples of these evacuation order leaflets being dropped on Lebanon um but this is a tool uh that has been used uh repeatedly in Gaza all we've watched it for these 11 months in it's in its brutality um this is the way that it's done so um the Israeli media started to comment on these stories um and forc the IDF to comment um and the com the IDF said that they would investigate and now if we look at number 18 here on Monday has Bala Le released a video of uh these guys here picking up these leaflets and loading them on to their uh quadcopter not military their quadcopter drone so you can see that's the leaflets um and so what we're seeing here we didn't understand the scope of it until Hezbollah showed us this but this is the unit with the commander we we blurred them out uh great job by tomorrow um because we can't show their faces uh on YouTube so we don't but but you can see that they're just putting their faces right into the camera exposing exactly who they are and who is doing this um you can see them loading up the um essentially the server Mo Servo motor on the Drone that acts essentially like a a grenade launcher is taking these leaflets and so this is the first time we saw the scope of this operation that this Rogue Commander carrying out and look what it is it's flying over a group of 20 farmers who are farming their land and it's presumably a petty Commander who's mad that uh Israelis are all you know 200,000 uh at least 200,000 Israelis are evacuated from 40 plus settlements according to the National Emergency Management agency in Israel so this is just a single drone dropping these flyers over these people working in their Garden working in their fields um and Hezbollah shot it down shot it down took the film released the film and showed us this and just showed the rot in the command and control system of the IDF that we've seen carrying out the crimes all over Gaza um and this was just a u a Checkmate move by uh by Hezbollah to capture the Drone show the video show the commanders who are uh carrying out those um operations because essentially what he's doing that command Vander is doing a localized genocide a localized ethnic cleansing he's taking the Gaza War Paradigm uh disgusting Paradigm and bringing it and trying to apply it himself in his unit to get uh to terrify uh those Farmers that have probably he's been watching them Farm their fields and they're defended by radwan units in the area and they just got petty that we've seen the Israelis do petty things on the north we saw them a few months ago people remember um when there was fires in Northern Israel um the Israeli soldiers were firing Trey buckets of fire over the border to try to start fires um and throwing um like fired paper out of the out of the LA uh the Catapult uh over the border so just that story would have got would have probably slipped through the news because of everything that's happened since then but recording that for history is I think a really important thing so I'm glad we did that and thanks to tomarrow for doing that blurring uh it's a hassle but it's very worth keeping that video on line so that is Lebanon [Music]