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Resistance Report — 20 May 2024

How Hizballah’s guided missile strikes defeat Israeli defenses, with Jon Elmer

Jon Elmer covers the fierce fighting on the northern front.

Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley, Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer of The Electronic Intifada were joined by Dr. Khaled Dawas who has traveled to Gaza with Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) to provide essential medical care at al-Aqsa Hospital, on the day 222 livestream. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW1XN9lz1Zg

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Full transcript
now I want to take a look at some Hezbollah operations there was a bunch of them and uh I I didn't know how long to go but I wanted to show you a couple of these this is a a double cornet um hasbalah has made a thala a twin anti-tank guided missile system it's a twin cornet um and it is designed to defeat um the Israeli active protection systems on their tanks that I was talking about before the uh trophy system that sends out uh a missile to try to intercept the incoming missile so you send these double you can see the double cornet there you send them out one after another in less than one and a half seconds and it's too fast for um the Israeli tank to reload its trophy system we're not seeing that used on a tank here but like all of these Hezbollah operations there are s they're a sign of what can come Israel has moved their tanks off the Border in the North North as people I'm sure are aware at this point there's a buffer zone of uh for soldiers uh for armored vehicles of about 10 kilometers sometimes even more um because they want to be out of range of this coronate anti-tank missile fire um and so we're seeing these uh devices used against buildings but they could be used against tanks and they will be used against tanks if the war escalates and we've seen um Hezbollah put these double corn and mount them on the back of alter like ATVs like four-wheel four-wheelers um and so they basically made like a miniature open uh light infantry vehicle that has uh anti-tank weapons attached to it it's pretty cool way to move around in the forested mountain Hills of South Lebanon a completely different military environment than the Gaza Strip where if you had a device like that it would just be blown up IM immediately because of the Drone because of the flat land um but Hezbollah is able to have these kind of devices um because of the forest well go let's go to the next one um 22 this is a rocket launch uh system this is a pH uh two that that's a katucha grad rocket launcher that's a 30 rocket launcher um and the after this uh this is a symbol of what Hezbollah could do if the war opened up um these the frequency U the speed the caliber the whole deal about these rocket systems they overflood they flood the Iron Dome and Israel even admitted after this attack that they only got 15 Iron Dome only got 15 of the Rockets we're watching more than 40 be fired um and um you know nesa said in a speech the other day he said that uh there's 200,000 th people evacuated in the communities in the north Israelis evacuated from the north but he said if we want this war to expand we could make it two million in minutes because they have rocket systems that will drive people out this these are Rockets targeting the northernmost part of Israel this is an attack on kirat Shimona um the northernmost part of Israel but um as Nala said they can go from kirona to aat in the south and if the war opens up if Israelis are prepared are talking about opening up a war um their entire uh state is going to be within rocket fire um and just a note about this as well um you can see this is footage of of the fires in kirat Shona um the Israeli government yesterday notified the hotels where the people who have Evac evacuated their communities in the north are living the government told those hotels that they should expect to continue hosting people until the end at least through the end of 2024 um so the Israelis don't see a scenario where they're going to have their people move back to the north so we're seeing the Strategic depth of Israel the restricted there's the fires from the rocket attacks um Burning uh non-native trees that were planted by the Israelis famously um that burn like Tinder um yeah so the Israeli government said that uh announced quietly to the hotels that they should expect to be hosting people for the rest of the year and school starts in September uh in in Israel and so the school year is not going to start the country is going to be 10 kilometers smaller than it was on October 6th there's no indication that they're rebuilding the Gaza envelope anytime soon um that war in Gaza is dragging on too and so we have an Israel that's considerably smaller than it was on October 6th um and its strategic depth is really in question and and that has been one outcome of the War um let's look at 23 tomorrow this is uh hasbalah versus an Iron Dome system and I've been following these just try to bring you some of these same attacks to show you how we've been tracking them throughout this war um I showed you a few weeks ago them targeting um the Iron Dome uh system in the same place B halel this is guarding a base of the idf's 91st division which has um soldiers included from the galani Brigade and command posts um and we see footage they're going to show us footage here of the Iron Dome Interceptor site there you see it there um the the four launchers for the uh the site and then they're going to show us some Israeli footage of um the iron domes being launched so they're act so there you go there's the outgoing Iron Dome system um and so they're showing you that they know they have this uh surveillance like literally from the ground and now we're seeing them rigging up an ababel cassif attack drone a one-way loitering uh some people call them suicide drones kamakazi drones one-way attack drones loitering Munitions um it's a fiberglass um drone we've talked about him a number of times um it makes that buzzing lawnmower noise and it's fiberglass its propeller it has a low heat signature it flies below the radar and and hits as you can see there um because the Iron Dome can't catch it um because of the heat signature and because of the height that it flies at um and it's able to hit precisely um with a a small Warhead but big enough to do damage to these sites and now they're hitting these Iron Dome platforms regularly and there's only a dozen or so of these unless there's some secret stash um that nobody including the Americans don't know know about the Americans gave at the beginning of the war two iron domes that they had to Israel um to help them but we've now seen multiple be taken out here so let's go to 24 tomorrow before we don't need to go back around for this yeah let's go to 24 this is a triple anti-tank gu a missile strike and it's interesting here we're seeing an RPG 29 and you can see the fighter in his uniform moving through the terrain in Lebanon and he's barely visible his camo uh is is and you can see the RPG 29 hitting the corner there and that's uh it looks like a cornet I think that might be a concourse it's a a a similar uh anti-tank we to a cornet I think that was a concourse um but any case they have cornets conquor RPG 29s and that's an Almas that's what I've been following this is the weapon system that was captured by Hezbollah from the Israelis in the 2006 war was reverse engineered it's a top attack uh anti-tank missile which means it can be driven from a separate location then it's fired um and you see it there go right through the grill of this car and I I queued up the next video when this video ends tomorrow you can just skip to it because I queued it up uh in isolation because I wanted to show you the capability and again this is something that could be used on tanks um but we're watching it be used on um on on network uh connectivity equipment spying equipment um Israel bases that was the Jeep I don't know it' be interesting to find out whose jeep that was maybe it was one of the base commander Jeep but let's watch it here so you can see the beautiful spring in South Lebanon and you can watch the trajectory of this this Almas anti-tank guided missile is going to go inside a garage if you're listening to the program we're watching it on we're watching a camera on the missile fly over inside a garage and hit right through the grill of the car that they were aiming for so um we've been tracking this on this show I bring these Almas in because um it's a qualitative increase in capability of the resistance and um if the war were to break out in a more uh concent ated or if the escalation ladder is to be climbed all of these weapons will be deployed in different ways right now they're shaping the battlefield with these weapons but these weapons can be used um to great effect in a ground war against Israeli tanks that are going to attempt like they do every time to cross the Wades and come up the mountains uh and fight uphill like sunu told you not to do um that's what the Israelis do and now these increased weapons will make that even harder and we know in 2006 uh it was a humiliating defeat for the Israelis Israelis spent most of the 2006 July War um most of their fighting in that war was recovery it was recovering troops that had gotten smoked that were trapped that were isolated that needed to be saved by other units um and most of the logic of that war was other units coming to save the units that uh failed in their objectives their objectives to capture Benes baale uh famously um and required a two- week battle just to extract the Israeli soldiers out of that situation and that's when they called for a ceasefire so that is the resistance report from the very southern tip of the Gaza Strip to the northern tip of Israel from South Lebanon um and the resistance is just increasing um at this point 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