Hizballah rockets, drones and anti-tank missiles target Israeli border bases, with Jon Elmer

We will go now to Lebanon for a little quick tour of Lebanon. I stitched these videos together um because I think they basically all show the same thing and uh they don't require much uh explanation. But um if we start with number 20, we're going to see uh Hezbollah rocket attacks that have taken uh have escalated. Most of what we're seeing here are Grad um generally they're called Katyushas. If they were coming out of Gaza, we'd call them Qassam rockets. In In Lebanon, we call them Katyushas. They're basically Grad rockets, 122-mm Grad rockets, Soviet rockets, very uh common rockets. Um but you will see the heavier uh a couple heavier ones. They have a Burkan heavy rocket that you'll see coming up here. Um but this is part of what the Shabak this week, Israel's internal security, posted numbers of the number of rocket attacks. Um and they the the month of August was 1,307 attacks, so more than 40 a day um versus July, which was 1,000 1,100, so 200 increase um from August to July, 200 increase from June to July. Um May had 1,000, April 755, March 755. So they're turning up the gas. Um double the rocket fire from uh from April to August. Um and so that's what we're seeing here uh hitting settlements. They say they've hit 40 422 settlements, 198 military sites, 391 military barracks, 102 bases, 59 uh uh sorry, no, that's for drones. So uh and 1,328 border posts that they hit. Um so yeah, these are using um, weapons that are uh, Soviet-era weapons. That looks like the heavy, that's the Burkan heavy rocket, sometimes called the Falak 2. Um, rocket. And the settlement committee, the settlement councils, that's like their mayors uh, in the north, they were told uh, to prepare for 6 more months of fighting in Lebanon. That uh, that you know, people who are out of their homes cuz there's 50 villages um, and settlements that are completely abandoned in the north. The buffer zone is inside Israel. Um, and so people are being told to prepare for 6 more months. And um, Yoav Gallant again, he said that uh, he was just up on the border the other day um, saying that the center of gravity is moving to the north. We are nearing completion of our mission in the south, but we have a task here that has been been that has to be carried out. And our mission is to change the security situation for the residents in the north. Um, we are finishing training uh, an entire order of battle for a ground operation in Lebanon in all its respects, Gallant said. Um, I've already seen in many circumstances where I stood next to soldiers who told me, "You are just talking." After a week, I met with them on the ground. So, he's telling them that soldiers are just talking to them. He thinks it's all talk. The soldiers don't believe there's going to be an invasion um, of Lebanon. The United States Central Command chief, who's responsible for the Middle East, uh, Michael Kurilla, he was in Israel this week, the last 2 days. Um, and they're talking about focusing on current threats, planning the war for Lebanon, and what to do with um, Iran and Lebanon on the northern border. Um, so it sounds like they're at least talking about pushing war in Lebanon. Um, we've noted on this program before that that's uh, uh, probably an extremely bad idea for Israel to do. I'm not going to give Israel military advice. So, I won't press that too heavy. But, Hezbollah has the capacity that they're not showing us here. They're just showing us This is just medium-range rockets, rocket fire that could go on. They can fire rockets like this. They Hezbollah committed to to supporting Gaza until there's a ceasefire. When there's a ceasefire, Hezbollah will stop. They've said it straightforward. But, Hezbollah has the capacity, 200,000 rockets. When you're firing a thousand in a month, there's a long time, 20 years, that you could be firing if that math was right. That you could be firing and carrying on this level of of war of attrition, of dialing up the escalation ladder, one by one. And we know these hit They also set off the alarms that we see. So, lots of interesting footage here. So, this is all footage from since the beginning of September. And I stitched them together. The bases aren't Actually, I might have Did I skip the maps? Maybe after this we could go to the maps. Yeah. Yeah, thanks, nice tomorrow. So, this is where the the If you see the Hezbollah Israel is blue, Hezbollah is red. You can see that the attacks are spread out pretty much right across the border. They're heavier in the Galilee Panhandle, where Kiryat Shmona sticks up in the top there that you can see on the map. And if you do the one before it, tomorrow, you can just see who's actually attacking who. I think these numbers are a little off. Hezbollah claims 2,500 attacks, and the Israelis, I think it's more like 8,000, but it's roughly the same. What you're looking at is 80% of the attacks are Israeli attacks. They're dropping American bombs all over Lebanon. Mostly in the south. Um but the preponderance of violence is always on the Israeli side. They have the un you know, as Matt said, they have the unlimited number of shipments coming to them multiple a day ships uh every week or two. Um and so they're able to carry out these attacks bombing uh South Lebanon. So, let's look at 21. 21 here is anti-tank guided missile strikes. So, we're seeing conquerors um systems being used here to to hit these surveillance towers. And these surveillance towers are part of the electronic warfare system um and jamming system that's trying to deal with the drones. It's also the systems are systems that uh make it dangerous to work in um in an anti-tank missile unit. Um because they track you. These these systems track you, and then Israel's able to return fire uh before you can pack up your gear and get away. And we remember early in the war, Nasrallah was saying that these were martyrdom missions. These tank anti-tank missile attacks were martyrdom missions um because of the way the technology along this border um allowed the drone integration taking the uh information provided by these towers, feeding it into the drones, and then the drones being able to strike the anti-tank crew. Well, that's all changed. And at one point, Nasrallah joked about how he said, "People People said that they're just towers." And he kind of gave his like wry, you know, half smile. He said, "They're not towers." Um and they're not towers. They're very important um electronic warfare positions that allow that shape the battlefield. That allow um these fighters to carry out these operations without dying. Um and so you can have your forces become skilled, trained uh anti-tank fire. And the reason why one of the reasons why they're firing on these uh surveillance equipment and electronic warfare equipment is because the Israelis have moved their military 15 km off the border because earlier in the war when I was showing you these videos, I was showing you videos of the tanks getting hit by these weapons. Um and so they're using their lesser uh lesser quality uh if they were to choose their their their packing order, these um the these ones you're seeing here, these Concours, they're ones that they have in large numbers and they're perfect for just picking off uh all of these uh sites. And you can see they're because they're wire guided um or optical guided, they hit their targets. And so you can hit very specific targets that Hezbollah is hitting these bases repeat repeatedly, over and over again hitting these bases. Um there you see, blows the top off of it. You can see the shape charge here expelling. That's That's the same way that the the Yasin works. Um that that footage there where you see that needle po- uh fly out from the explosion. In Gaza, we see the explosion on the tank. Um we don't see the needle cuz the needle goes through um you know, the sharp copper um projectile goes through the tank. Um and that's what you're seeing when you see that um when you see that system blow and there's a line on the other side of it. That line Um that line's the deadly part. In any case, we'll see more of those uh in Gaza as well. So, number of anti-tank guided missile strikes, 850 we've been seeing uh along this area. Uh 850 of these strikes targeting bunkers, technical equipment, settlement units, military factories, artillery positions, Iron Dome platforms. We We We saw them hit the two balloons. They had balloon Hezbollah put balloon uh for their airship. We saw them down the airship with a drone. Uh so, yeah. Is that a loop? Are we looping here? We don't need to loop tomorrow. We will go to 22 is uh an Almas. And as I always tell you every time, the Almas is a top attack top-of-the-line uh top-shelf uh but it's called top attack because it comes um it comes down from the top. It could be flown um you're going to watch it here come down on a on a poli- on a mili- on a military mustering point. So, this is where a checkpoint at a base and they drop that missile right on top of that base. Um and the Almas is a copy of a Spike system that was a state-of-the-art system in 2000 that was captured in its entirety uh by Hezbollah in uh Ayta ash-Shab in during the battle um in the July war. And they took that system to uh Iran, and Iran reverse engineered it, popped it back over to Hezbollah, and Hezbollah now has this uh severe capability that the Israelis have been worried about for a long time. And just before we launch 23 tomorrow, give me 1 second here because I want people to just pay attention to this video right away because we're going to see three launches very quickly right at the beginning and these launches are interesting because it's the first time we've seen on video the launch of Shahed 101 drones and I'll get into what those are but just watch the launch. They're rocket launched and then they're electric engine and and plastic propeller that are totally vexing the Israelis. So watch these three get launched right away here. There goes one. There goes two. And there goes the third. So I thought you would miss that if I didn't point that out but and then we have a little shot of them flying um and you can see they have a a different uh wing shape on the back um than the Ababil. The ones we've been showing you um on this program are Ababil drones. Um and so these are Shahed 101s. They have increased capabilities and as you can see here, some of them have cameras to add to make them a first-person view drone, FPV drone that you that are popular in Ukraine by both fighting forces in Ukraine um and you can um with these these uh 101s have excellent tracking systems. You can control them all the way through. You're not just plugging a GPS coordinate in like some of the more lower quality drones. You plug a GPS coordinate in and it flies to whatever that coordinate is. They're they're manning these vehicles. They're changing its flight in the flight path. You can watch it happen on this one um which makes them significantly more uh a capable uh weapon. The key to this is the key to Iran's missile and drone sharing program. They're made with commercial parts. So they get the the drawings come from Iran on how to make the drones. Um it's the same for the rockets in Gaza. They'll show you how to make them. And you make them with off-the-shelf parts. Um and so this drone here weighs seven times uh less than the uh Ababil drone that has a wooden propeller. But because it's a fiberglass drone, because it's being um because it's got an electric motor, you don't hear the the buzz like you know like the the lawnmower buzz of drones. And so these drones have been vexing Israel. They don't know how to get them down. Um they they missed the cutoff. Hezbollah missed the 2:00 p.m. cutoff for the resistance report every week, but uh they after 2:00 they dropped three videos that'll be on the show next week um showing the use of the uh Shahed 101 hitting bases in northern Israel. Um and and injuring soldiers. Again, Israel lies, covers up its casualties, obfuscates its casualties. It it admits them. Um but it doesn't admit them in the way that um you know Hezbollah does immediately. Hezbollah immediately admits their casualties, puts their name, puts their picture. They're proud of their fighters. Nasrallah always says that. Israel's um a little less forthcoming. Sometimes in the larger operations like there was a drone strike um where 17 soldiers were wounded. Um and that required like a mass casualty event at a hospital that's more difficult to cover up, so that kind of information got out. Um but generally they don't uh they don't do their casualties very much. Um but Hezbollah's paid a heavy price to in support of uh Gaza. More twice as many fighters have died in Hezbollah's support for Gaza than died in the July 2006 war. So, the fighters are committed to this struggle and they're paying for this struggle. 250 civilians in Lebanon have been killed in this cross-border Lebanon-Israel fight. and so they're paying the price. And the number in Israel, if you if you remove the 12 teenagers that were killed in Majdal Shams, which is absolutely not clear Hezbollah did, um you have uh you have six Israeli civilians have been killed and they're killed on bases. They they work on bases cuz Hezbollah's hitting military targets. Um and the other 10 were soldiers, so uh Israel claims um those 16. So, interesting interesting developments uh on the northern border. More drones, more drones, more high-quality drones, more attacks, um and more qualitative attacks. So, and then just one more just a shout-out to uh Srail could sent a shout-out to the Yemeni armed forces. Here, Yemeni armed forces in a tunnel. The Yemenis have a tunnel, too. Um they've been building their tunnel networks. Um and then this is Islamic Jihad in their tunnel networks. Um and this is a video uh that's called from Gaza to Sanaa. It'd probably be from Sanaa to Gaza to Jerusalem. And just uh just in the same way that the PFLP fighters were shouting out their leaders, you see people in Gaza saluting uh Yemen for their support, for the blockade of the Red Sea, for the ballistic missile, the Palestine ballistic missile that you just saw there that hasn't been launched but appears to be uh a long-range uh ballistic missile um we haven't seen used but the Yafa drone was shown their Yafa drone strike in July hit Tel Aviv. Messages of solidarity between the two forces. Of course, the Red Sea blockade has been very successful. Suez shipping is down 50%. The Eilat port is bankrupt and closed. That's the launch the test launch of the of the Palestine ballistic missile. The Yafa drone strike was 2500 km. It traveled undetected, flew in over the sea and hit downtown the US aimed at the US Embassy in downtown. But it's just a this is just a video of both of their operations Saraya al-Quds operations Yemeni armed forces and Saraya al-Quds operations and the fighters in the middle of a genocide taking the time out to salute to salute their comrades who are fighting and as Ali said there's been multiple air strikes against there at these massive demonstrations for Palestine that they have in Sanaa every week every Friday that get bigger every week. They started at a million and now I don't even know how you could count how many there are there. It's just remarkable. So the I just wanted to bring you that one cuz it's a nice shout out from Saraya al-Quds. But that is the resistance report. We went from Gaza to the West Bank to Lebanon. And uh Yeah, they're fighting on all fronts still.