Yemenis down US drone as Hizballah presses Israel in support of Gaza, with Jon Elmer

I'm going to take a quick look at the other fronts here because obviously Lebanon has been in the news consistently particularly since the assassination of Fuad Shukr who is um by all accounts including Nasrallah's the top commander of Hezbollah and this is the first time we've seen him. We don't see these commanders until they're killed. Um they're and you can see the faces blurred out of the next group that haven't been killed. Um and you can see this is the first footage we've ever seen. This is from Hezbollah this footage of them battling Fuad Shukr um was a founding commander. He was involved in Islamic Jihad the pre Hezbollah formation that was famous for targeting the Israeli military base in Tyre and Sour in South Lebanon uh in 1981 I believe that one was in 1983 in 1982 and 83 they wiped out the CIA station. They took out the Marine barracks in Beirut. Um you can see him there with Nasrallah. You can see him down there in Hezbollah's tunnel system. Um you can see him speaking to his fighters and Nasrallah talked about him twice this week in speeches and said that he was always the commander. He was the founding commander that he was always involved in the most important operations. They put him Nasrallah put him in the same category as Imad Mughniyah and Mustafa Badr al-Din who are the two previous commanders that people knew almost nothing about until they were assassinated and then this is showing us here Nasrallah credits Shukr for the long range and precision missile guided systems rocket artillery and missile systems that are what are threatened on Israel. Israel expects according to their intelligence estimates that 3,000 rockets a day is how the war would start with uh with Hezbollah. 3,000 rockets a day with an arsenal of more than 150,000 uh rockets and precision-guided munitions that can hit all over Israel uh with precision. So, um that was interesting just That's the first ever video that we've seen of Fuad Shukr. So, I wanted to just show you that. And also this week, number 20, uh Hezbollah released their 300 days mixtape uh which they do. I don't know if we have volume in this one, but um it's the volume is a is a part of these. You can You can hear it a little bit. You In any case, it's part of the production value of these Hezbollah videos. You can see the days counting uh in the bottom right-hand corner and various different attacks that have been carried out over that time. 2,500 operations have been carried out, and then there's a voiceover on this that has Fuad Shukr saying to his to his men uh man your posts and be at the ready. Essentially, uh remain at your base, stay in your military uniform. And keep your weapons in your hand. And then it's Nasrallah uh saying his famous line, "Between us and you are the battlefields, the nights, and the days." Which is the the threat "When will they respond?" Um that's Nasrallah's response to that. So, we're seeing here uh in these operations um part of the uh the litany of operations. I'll just give you some of them. 1,050 settlement units targeted, 180 command and control posts, 450 technical equipment. That's when they blow up the Iron Dome uh radars. And these radars that you're seeing, um those are anti-drone operations. They said 160 air defense operations um targeting 125 military vehicles. That's mostly armored vehicles, tanks, troop carriers, um, a lot of jeeps. We've seen a number of jeeps. There's been attacks on 61 artillery posts, um, 12 Iron Dome systems. They've downed six drones, three Hermes 900, three Hermes 450s, uh, in the 300 days. Um, so Hezbollah has been busy this week with the psychological operations. Um, and then that's the red for revenge that they were putting up. We've seen the red flag be flown, uh, in Tehran. And Nasrallah gave the speeches this week for Shukra, uh, with this red background that's being interpreted as, uh, that the response is coming. And Nasrallah said that there will be a response, um, and it's coming. So, um, also this week, um, Hezbollah released these videos. Uh, this is a Burkan heavy rocket fired here. They could see this is from a week and a half ago. Um, this is one of seven, uh, sorry, one one of 1,000 one of 1,000 rocket operations, um, that have fired more than 7,500 rockets, according to the IDF. Um, there's also been, uh, we're going to see here coming up an anti-tank guided missile strike from their Toufan missile system they call. This is a reverse engineered, uh, of the, uh, US TOW anti-tank guided missile system. So, multiple reverse engineered systems that Hezbollah has been using to great effect, uh, during this war. So, this is one of 750 anti-tank guided missile operations, um, that have been carried out against these settlement positions, um, that are abandoned. There's more than 40 abandoned settlements, uh, in the north, um, that have been abandoned by the Israelis. They just announced, uh, this week that there's not going back to school in northern Israel in the fall. This is the tow system that I was talking about that you can see being used there. That's the reverse engineered Iran reverse engineered the US tow system. They the Hezbollah calls it the Toufan system. So we've been seeing this all week and again, Nasrallah in his speech this week pointed out that there's chemical factories worth $31 billion technology factories worth $76 billion power plants worth $9 billion food factories worth $12 billion and he said Nasrallah said these factories took 34 years to build and can be destroyed in half an hour. And Hezbollah has been striking deeper inside of Israel in response to the assassinations of their of their fighters on the ground. But Nasrallah has said these are not the response for Fuad Shukra and that when the response for Shukra happens, we will all know it and these are not those operations. So number 22 here is Ansar Allah doing their thing downing another MQ-9 Reaper drone 35 plus million dollar drone down over Saada governorate in Yemen just a couple days ago. This is the 10th Reaper US Reaper drone United States Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone down by the Yemeni since 2017 and the seventh 10th since 2017 and the seventh since the battle in the Red Sea began in solidarity with Gaza. We'll remember back in May they got three in in three weeks and you can see the missile system is still intact on this one and if we remember the previous one we showed I showed you on the show it looked like the drone the Reaper drone was downed maybe by electronic warfare because it wasn't blown up. It was only in it was a crash landing. Um electronic warfare jamming is the suspect for that one. Yemeni armed forces using electronic warfare to bring that down. In any case, they have all the pieces um articulated pieces of the MQ-9 Reaper drone, which will surely end up in Iran. And you can see there the missile systems, the Hellfire missiles, and the JDAM kits on a 500-lb bomb. And those are going to end up in Iran and be reverse engineered. And when we're reporting on the next war, I'll tell you about that. Um in the same way that I talked about the Almas antitank guided missile system that came from the uh Hezbollah capturing the Spike system in South Lebanon during the July war in 2006. So, these Yemenis are standing on this and the the the dialogue is is essentially um them standing on this saying um that the the the pride of US manufacturing is under our feet. Um and as you can see, they're celebrating this. Previously, a couple of the drones they burned, but they've stopped doing that. They're now holding them, collecting them, and they know the value of them. Um we speculated about what kind of missile this is. We believe that these are being taken down by a Yemeni-built Iranian engineered uh 358 missile. I've talked about that on previous shows, but Hezbollah cuts out just before they uh down the Hermes drones, which is similar class to this MQ-9 Reaper. Um and we've seen the missile fired from the ground, but it was dark um in the previous Yemeni downings of these drones, but it looked like um the the consensus seems to be that these are 358 item 358. These were missiles that were have been interdicted before and parts were found of them and this is the missile system that the Israelis have been worried about because they knew that this system could hit their their Hermes drones. So yeah, so the speaker says this plane was down by the air defenses today of uh the Yemeni armed forces in the skies of the Sa'dah governorate while it was engaged in espionage activities. And also this week Ansar Allah commander Sayyid Abdul Malik al-Houthi delivered a speech almost immediately over the martyrdom of Ishmael Haniyeh and Fuad Shukr. So and sent millions of people into the streets on the Friday after that assassination as a response to that that the Yemenis have been doing every Friday but there was a massive demonstration last Friday. So the resistance axis powers are on side um understanding that this is a a group battle and as Nasrallah said, they might respond on their own, Iran or it might be all of the resistance axis fronts, the seven fronts might respond all at the same time and the psychological warfare of waiting for that is is part of the cost as Nora said that Nasrallah said and so the psychological operations are deep. A lot of people in Israel in the north it's basically a ghost town. People are in their shelters. And there's panic in Israel and the response as Helena said is almost certain to be larger than what we saw the first time when Iran struck which was kind of a demonstrative test Um of Israel's air defenses. Um the Americans are trying to get them to make this one a demonstrative one as well and rather than a uh a painful one, but we'll see what the response is cuz everybody has promised Iran and Hezbollah has promised there will be a response for this. So, the clock is ticking on that. And that is the resistance report for this week, day 306 of the genocide. Um the fighting and the fighters are still in their bases um as they were on the first day confronting the Israelis.