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Resistance Report — 3 Aug 2024

Hizballah showcases anti-tank weapons after Israel admits to tank shortage, with Jon Elmer

Jon Elmer covers the latest resistance news across multiple fronts in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.

Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley, Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer of The Electronic Intifada were joined by journalist Donya Abu Sitta live from the Gaza Strip, and Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, on the day 299 livestream. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkWFq_Wu2Us

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Full transcript
let's look at Lebanon now because also steady resistance uh on the Lebanon front we just found out when we were on air that Hezbollah has um claimed um has acknowledged the assassination of fuad Shakur Hajj Mosen uh who was uh historic leader uh of the uh of Hezbollah going back before Hezbollah to Islamic Jihad um operations in 1983 against the Marine Corps Barracks United States Marine Corps barracks and operation that wiped out the cia's Middle East station uh in an operation he was shuker was a uh commander of the Golan Heights which is an important position in Hezbollah it's a strategic territory of course related to the Syria War especially um and Russian positions in the Golan and of course Israeli occupied Golan uh as was a Target so I just wanted to throw that in because that was acknowledged just while we've been uh on air um but this week um Hezbollah released the third scop deep scop uh psychological operation against the Israelis publishing Drone footage here I've shortened this up but this was a 9 minute video of Hezbollah Drone footage flying over um the Ramat David Air Base in Northern Israel the two previous ones we saw them for nine and a half minutes flying over hia and showing us all of hi's important installations they also Flew Over the Golan Heights earlier this month and this one is over the Ramat day David Airbase um and as you can see it's a significant Air Base it's code named Wing one it's the only air base in Northern Israel it's 45 kilometers from the border halfway between Nazareth and hia uh it's the only base in the north and you can see it has has serious um capabilities it's got um uh which includes fighter jets Attack Helicopters transport uh and Rescue helicopters Naval surveillance helicopters electronic warfare offensive systems um they're going to show us here flying over you can see flying over the Airfield there um but there's three fighter squadrons that are based here you can see they're showing us hangers um three fighter squadrons uh an intelligence Squadron uh a naval surveillance Squadron an electronic warfare Squadron um and then a maintenance and support Squadron here you're showing Iron Dome batteries um they know where everything is ammunition storage they're not just flying over the base they're inter they're showing us every single there's the one squadron's command post they're going to show us all the Squadron command posts all the refuel areas all the radar domes all the Iron Dome air defense systems uh ammo storage the the Squadron commands and maintenance areas for each of the squadrons um that are here near the end of the video you can see their Attack Helicopters all lined up um so this is the 193rd Squadron one of the uh command centers and here they're showing us who the commanders are they know the base commanders they know their previous positions um identified by the israelies just by calling them Colonel a but they show exactly where his building is where his Barracks is they show where the soldiers Barracks are uh in general there's the officer Barracks um so they have intelligence Beyond just uh they're showing command and control reinforcement based buildings um just really remarkable um f-16s uh F-16 repair facility F-15 f-16s her Hermes and Heron and Heron drones um are here they Blackhawk and Apache attack helicopter squadrons there you can see the helicopters on the ground um so these are targets for hasbalah they could wipe these helicopters out with Precision guided missiles you can see the entire helicopter Squadron is just sitting there uh on the border and they showed this at the end to show that this had been the day before so they actually were going on multiple days which is something that nasala said about the previous two scop videos as well was that they were filmed over multiple days over many hours um and so this breach of Israeli um uh defense systems is something that covers days hours and gets us these long videos that uh really are uh Peak psychological operations something that um shows the vulnerability of Israel and after the assassination in the dahia of Hajj Mosen I think there's a lot of people on edge uh about the regional dynamics of this uh and what it could portend and Israel is uh being shown here by Hezbollah to be extremely vulnerable um let's look at number 21 here one of the reasons they are vulnerable is because of 750 anti-tank guided missile strikes some on tanks and Troop carriers but a lot on uh here we're seeing the Drone Dome the anti uh the Raphael uh system that's supposed to detect drones um being blown up here by uh by a Maz uh anti-tank guided missile and that's one of 500 operations against technical gear um if we go to number 22 tomorrow we can see the anti-tank weapon Arsenal hasola put out this mixtape with all of their anti-tank weapons and this was a response to when um the Israelis uh the Israeli Supreme Court last week we talked about it on the show maybe two weeks ago uh said they didn't have enough tanks the the Israeli military spoke to Supreme Court and said they couldn't train the women's uh tank Battalion because they didn't have enough tanks and trainers um left to to to do that and so this is nasala interacting with the Israeli media um and saying uh if you come to Lebanon you won't just have a tank shortage you'll have no tank uh is what Abu Hadi said and so we can see here uh interacting with the news Hezbollah interacting with the news the same way that uh Kasam interacts with the news hasbalah showing us uh their weapon systems here um and saying you won't have any tanks left so with this last video Let's do 23 um tomorrow because this is remarkable because Kasam sent a message to Hezbollah this week uh with a mix tank with a mixtape um that every single just a note it said the tank will this is uh y of Galant um saying that the tanks that will leave Rafa can go to the Lani saying that they'll leave Rafa and go and invade uh Lebanon um and this is a Kasam video of tanks from Rafa was specifically what uh Galant was talking about that these are the tanks from Rafa so Kasam said these are your tanks leaving Rafa um and they say to Hezbollah we are sure you can complete the mission um and it's interesting to note that every single video in here is from Rafa each of the videos they didn't just put illustrative videos in that showed other battle sites those were all tanks from Rafa being destroyed uh by Kasam and they sent a message to uh hasbalah uh in that message saying that these are galant's armored vehicles leaving Rafa and we are certain that you will complete the mission so Communications between the fronts between the West Bank and Gaza between Gaza and Lebanon uh and between Lebanon and Gaza as we've seen throughout the war um so that's the resistance report for this week those uh three major fronts in Gaza multiple battles in Gaza multiple fronts in the West Bank and uh everybody's on edge about uh the northern border uh with uh Hezbollah in Lebanon so uh just a remarkable week of operation thanks for watching this video please subscribe to our YouTube channel hit like leave a comment these engagements help us with the YouTube algorithm and it helps us to get around Silicon Valley censorship as much as possible it does make a difference you can also support our journalism by going to electronic in.net and clicking on donate now thank you