How Hizballah hits concealed targets from above, with Jon Elmer

Um, to switch from from Gaza, we I I just brought a couple clips again from the resistance and the other front uh on the other fronts. Um, so we have a a video from Hezbollah that we've been following Hezbollah's use of this new weapon that they have, a top attack anti-tank missile um that can be fired and then controlled while it's in flight from a separate location. Um, it can um be controlled while the shooters can then move themselves out um and get away safely. Um, but then the missile is controlled while it's in air and it can raise its height and then it can attack down onto a concealed target. So, if we show number eight here, um, tomorrow we saw this is the third video that Hezbollah has shown um of this Almas Iranian anti-tank guided missile that the Israelis um had in 2006 before anybody else. Um, and they had a unit captured by um Hezbollah in the war in the July war. So, what we're watching here is the missile and you can see how it's coming from above. And that tank that we're looking at, that's a Merkava 4 um, he- hidden behind a a high berm, behind a wall, behind two buildings. Um, but they can drive the missile in flight over top of that concealed area um, and hit and hit the vehicle. This weapon is a qualitative increase in the capacity of the resistance and should their fighting in the north increase, it'll be something that we see more and more of. But that tank previously um was unhittable unless you were lucky and you fluked out and hit and your rocket landed in that exact spot. But this capability, this Almas um anti-tank guided missile um, for Hezbollah to have it in their in their um in their quiver um is a considerable upgrade. And after we watch this um watch this missile hit one more time. We're watching um again the tank is is concealed um and so you're watching a strike from across the border hit a concealed target who believes that he is safe in that spot. Um and then it's it's being hit from above. So we're really seeing which we showed the first two videos of that and I was talking about how they were hitting surveillance technology. Um but that they could hit tanks. Um and then a couple days later Hezbollah showed us hitting the tanks. And after this this strike tomorrow if we can show the article from 2006. Um so this is a report from 2006 after the war that says Israeli This is on Israeli state-owned television. Um it says Israeli military sources that said that the ground forces command has determined that Hezbollah seized the Spike anti-tank guided missile system. The sources said Hezbollah captured the Israeli system during the war in Lebanon in the summer of 2006. This is an article from November of 2006. Um and the IDF source says, "We know that one of the Spike systems has gone missing in the area where Hezbollah operated." Um and the Spike system was then uh the Israeli media military commentator said, "It obviously went to Iran." Um so that was 2006. Here we are 2024 um and that uh has come to pass uh for the Israelis. Um so that's the northern front. Um again, we should do a whole show on the northern front because um so much is happening um on the north. Um constant escalation um and and tactical achievements by Hezbollah um and Israel stig- sticking largely within the the rules of engagement in the north not uh escalating. Nasrallah pointed out the other day that that that's proof of Hezbollah deterrence because previously these kind of attacks that we've watched on these videos would lead Israel to to to bomb civilian areas in their Dahiya doctrine as a response to these types of attacks which we haven't seen. So let's just 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 electronicintifada.net and clicking on donate now. Thank you.