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Resistance Report — 23 Oct 2024

Hizballah expands its arsenal and operations against Israel, with Jon Elmer

Day 383: Jon Elmer provides the latest news on the Lebanon front.

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Full transcript
we're going to switch now to Lebanon show you just a few operations from lemonon um past 3 weeks this is an almass uh top attack anti-tank missile I've described this to you before this is a captured weapon this weapon was captured during the 2006 War reverse engineered in Iran uh and then sent down uh at um sent sent to Iran to be reverse engineered and created uh the Almas and this is it uh being fired on the Golani Brigade uh just across the border uh west of aab in South Lebanon a direct hit and they're going to fire a second one here uh as well so um something that we don't see in the Palestinian situation is something we are seeing by Hezbollah double tap attacks um are very effective we can go to the next one tomorrow 21 is um this is a Apache helicopter getting chased by a drone that it can't find and this drone is on its way to Target netanyahu's Villa um north of Tel Aviv and it's just to give you a sense of the drones uh versus Israeli Air Force capabilities um there's no Sirens until the very end of this um and the helicopter can't shoot it out of the air despite the fact the helicopter being right there um this drone we know now we we knew we knew on the day on Saturday that Israel um that that Benjamin netanyahu's bedroom was hit at his Villa he wasn't there uh but we know that that uh Villa was hit um and Israel waited four days to uh let the sensor know we could do number 22 is is a another angle of that drone um flying um through Palestine and this week people were talking all week about how these drones yesterday the Israelis were chasing these drones for half an hour and couldn't find the Drone the Drone finally landed and Israel still couldn't find uh where it is so the drones are still uh vexing the Israeli a aerial defense array number 23 is uh an improvement in uh these are ballistic missiles these are the first time we've seen hasz Bala use short range ballistic missiles this is a gamechanging weapon um that is precision guided with a 400 uh kilogram Warhead 250 km range you can see there it's a qualitatively different rocket and this would been fired on uh military positions in Tel Aviv um and over the last week what the last week hasell operations went from 17 to 21 to 25 to 28 to 39 yesterday there's no indication that the decapitation of their leadership has done anything to the rocket um firing Israel says 70% of the Rockets have been knocked out um there's no indication of that they still fire four times more Rockets today um than they do um than they did uh before Israel's three-week uh War Began um is this 24 24 are um 24 Nasser ones these are the this is something nasr has talked about for a long time these are Precision guided kits that are being added to their previous rocket artillery so these are FDI rockets that I introduced you to a few weeks ago these are FDI Rockets with Precision guided kits added to them and this is a an upgrade to be using them they use them the first time this week they claim they have a five meter um hit rate s like uh success rate um aim uh aim Zone within 5 km this is against the bait lead uh IDF base and you can see the soldiers there there uh outside the base and and one more here we have uh a new rocket artillery number 25 um this is interesting because this will be used in should the Israelis actually Advance into Lebanon they haven't done that yet they're still uh in the first row uh first Villages they haven't taken first Villages they're not pushing deep into Lebanon at this point but this is a fragmentation uh artillery rocket which is interesting um to be used and it's designed by Hezbollah all three of the Rockets I just showed you are designed by Hezbollah um and this is a fragmentation Warhead that covers 35 meters with fragmentation pellets 5,000 pellets per rocket and the range is three three kilometers so they fire these um as an anti-personnel weapon if the soldiers are advancing up the high mountains you fire down with this Weapon It's very effective um and then just one last look at a because Iraq has been the Islamic resistance in Iraq has been carrying out drone attacks usually about four a day the Israelis get maybe half of them they're aimed primarily at a lot uh the port at a lot there's they're aimed at the Golan Heights they're aimed at uh military installations in the Jordan Valley um and the Islamic resistance in Iraq is now doing these consistently they're marking these drones as drones for Nala drones for senoir um drones for the Lebanese people drones for the Palestinians in jabalia and they're launching these drones and the Israelis have to answer to these every day this is what it sounds like a drone launch from a racket Israel was shot down by Israeli air defenses near the southernmost city of elot um a second drone hit in an open area they never seem to get both drones they get one of the drones um and we know that these drones from the Iraqi resistance have made it through um and hit bases uh in the Golan um so to have this multi front war is U is happening uh in a consistent way in a way that it wasn't previously to these past um three weeks or month or so really when the war escalated in um in Lebanon was the the moment of um the Islamic resistance in Iraq really getting involved um sort of meet meeting the call by Anor Allah in Yemen um here you see for sinir they're launching for senoir already so remarkable operations this week and that is the resistance report from one more from Lebanon um and from the south of Gaza and lot of material this week because the battles are uh fighting hard amid the brutal Crimes of the Israelis [Music]