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You are watching and listening to the electronic inifatada. I am John Elmer. This is the resistance report for day 923 of Israel's genocide in Gaza, day 48 of the USIsraeli war against Iran, and day 45 of Hezbollah's defense uh of South Lebanon.
Let's take a look first at the Straight of Hormuz, and then we'll get to Hezbollah's combat videos shortly. Just a a new view here for the Straight of Hormuz. Obviously the center of the uh world economy right now uh hanging on by a thread. The International Monetary Fund said there would be a global recession. They described it as the biggest supply disruption in world history. Uh and we're only just beginning it.
Um, there's a good shot on the screen there of the area in question. And it also shows the depths uh of the water and just how shallow the straight is. Um, how shallow the Gulf is. Um, and at this current point, the blockade went into effect, the US blockade went into effect uh on Sunday. Um, ironically, just before um the American blockade went into effect, more ships had exited the Gulf than at any point since the war had begun. Um, and so the US blockade um is attempting to snuff that out uh at the expense of the world's oil uh gas um and then all the derivatives that come from those uh petroleum products that are all basically made in the Gulf that you see there. Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, uh Kuwait, and of course Saudi Arabia.
And the US is talking about interdicting ships. That's the way that they're planning to do it. And they talked about some of that happening in Iranian waters. We'll see about that. They have not been coming anywhere near Iranian waters. Um, partially because of um something Trump admitted to the other day that more than 110 missiles and drones were fired at the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier uh which keeps it more than a thousand kilometers um from Iran in the Arabian Sea. Um, there is a second uh there's a third aircraft carrier. The second aircraft carrier the um USS Gerald Ford is in dry dock in Europe and the um George HW Bush is on route. We'll get to that in a moment.
But this is Iran uh flexing a capability that they have always had but they have not used um to control the straight of Hormuz which overwhelmingly runs through Iranian waters. And as Iran has said, there are wartime conditions in that strait, namely the enemies that are attacking Iran um are not going to be able to travel. And because of that, there's more than 3,200 ships stuck in uh the Gulf right now. We can look at the next slide. You can see the blockade. Um, you can see the ships stacked up on either side. Those are the ships that are waiting to cross. The red ships are waiting to cross. Um, but the ships that are just stuck in the Gulf are not uh lit up in this map from Maritime Tracker. Um, as I said, 3,200 ships, that was as of March 18th, and we know that only a small trickle have gotten out uh since then.
Um, we hear a lot about 20% of the oil, 20% of the natural gas, but um it's significant what uh derivatives um are also go through the straight including um helium, sulfur um and those are key. The helium supply is key in um medical um machines and a lot of chip making. Um, these are core um products that the world uses that are being broken in the supply chain. Um, and also some of the largest uh ports like the port in the UAE which is um the Jebel Ali port is one of the busiest container terminals in the world. They are effectively shut down.
So the blockade that Trump has put in place, the people that it stands to hurt the most are the Gulf countries, the Gulf allies of the United States, so-called allies who have been uh definitely gotten short shrift in this uh war as allies. Um, of course, they've been uh hit pretty hard. Um, and Iran threatens to hit their actual infrastructure um if this war escalates. Um, so that map gives you a good sense.
Let's take a look at the traffic scheme because this is the way that Iran has um um asserted control over the strait. So the restricted area that they have created um just off the coast of Oman there and the uh inbound and outbound traffic is passing through Iranian water in between Keshum Island and Larak Island. Um, you can see there and then outgoing traffic is on the um southern side of Larak Island as well. So they have moved the um shipping corridors that were through that area uh into Iranian waters. Um, and you can see it's such a small amount of space, but also this map shows the depth of the water and you can see how quickly along the shorelines um the water it's too shallow water for um for major ships. Um, and so um this is a significant development and it's very difficult to see how what the circumstances would be for Iran to give up this asset, this capability that it has asserted over the strait after um decades of sanctions have crippled um growth in the country and forced it to be completely essentially self-sufficient.
Um, but also the key ships that are getting the oil from Iran are Chinese vessels. So, are the Americans planning on stopping Chinese vessels uh in the open water? So, that's uh obviously a major escalation should it happen? Um, it's very difficult to tell by the Americans u what's bluster and what's not because a lot of it is bluster.
Let's take a look at the next uh map because you can see the overlay of the straight. There's Iranian territorial waters. You can see those two um green lines there are the inbound and outbound. Previously, we're looking at a map here of the straight zoomed in um with Iranian territorial waters being shown here. Um, and Iran and Oman's territorial waters overlap, but also anywhere through that straight, you are right up against uh Iranian shoreline. And Trump has made a big uh thing about destroying the Iranian Navy because he has no concept of what the Iranian Navy actually is. Um, sinking uh 70-year-old vessels that are tied up on the docks did not destroy Iran's Navy. Iran's Navy is a a fleet of thousands of fast boats. Um, there are missile um missile-mounted fastboats that can um shut down the straight in minutes with um swarms uh on the warships that carry anti-ship cruise um and anti-ship uh ballistic missiles. Um, and so the uh that's the part of the navy that we haven't seen. It's the part of the navy that is um underground largely in believed to be based on Iranian television reports believed to be embedded in um the sharp mountain sides um the cliffsides along the straight and of course the entire Persian Gulf um the northern side of the Persian Gulf is uh Iranian uh coastal waters and the Iranian coast.
So e any way of the Americans handling this if they're going to do it with escorts um escorts are extremely cumbersome and difficult to run and they only carry five or six ships at a time um compared to the 120 plus that normally uh transited through this area on any given day. And each day that the strait is like this, it's going to take more than a week to recover. And we're currently on day 48. So, we're already talking about if the war ended today, the strait opened completely, there was a full um you know, peace deal that allowed the Gulf to function as it was, you're a year away from fixing this. So, and every day it gets worse as well along that um along that vector.
So um this is really a global issue and Iran uh flexing this capability um using its geography flexing its geography um is something that we're going to be watching um and people will be watching in countries all over the world because it's going to affect everybody everything from fertilizer to jet fuel and everything in between.
Now let's take a look at what um Iran has done on the next map. You can see this is overlaid. Salmer Kaglaniano overlaid this uh map which I think is really helpful. Um, this is the the inset that you see there is from the IGR IRGC Navy. They released this um for mariners to understand the um traffic scheme and you can see it pretty clearly there going between Kasham and Laric Islands um and the area in the middle there there was a there was threatened to be uh mines. I don't think that it has been mined, but the threat is enough to stop shipping because the main thing that is stopping shipping is insurance. Insurance companies do not want to insure these vessels uh under this um circumstance right now. And we've seen that in the Red Sea where they still don't sail through the Red Sea even uh two years removed from the um Ansurella threat in the Red Sea. Um, shipping has gone around Africa since then. And so these are long-term um impacts.
The Americans say that there's 10,000 soldiers, 100 plus fighter jets and surveillance aircraft uh over the strait guiding this. Not sure that's going to help much. Um, they say there's between 12 and 15 warships. Doesn't sound like enough for any kind of serious blockade. Um, but this US blockade is obviously uh illegal. Um, you can't uh blockade and selectively allow ships through. Um, and that is what the US is doing.
Let's look at the next map here. You can see what the US has done during the ceasefire and we can know that the Iranians are doing the same thing. This is C17 heavy cargo plane traffic and this is a visual representation from skyglass um that shows the routes and you know we call it uh uh figuratively a an airbridge of weapons from the US to the Middle East. Um, but this map shows it as a bridge and and I think that's a useful way to see it. You can see from uh the continental United States into bases in Europe um particularly in the UK. You can see that sharp uh drop in the UK um and then into the Middle East. They're restocking their weaponry that have been depleted. And Iran is doing the same thing.
We could look at the next one is also a similar view of uh the same thing. This is more of a global view. And this is just the C17s from the US to um to the Middle East. It's not all flight. So you're just looking at cargo ship uh cargo uh aircraft the largest um cargo aircraft in the world or second largest I guess after the uh Russian one but 520 plus individual flights and that is the bare minimum because many don't have transponder traces for this traffic and this is only as of earlier this week. So the US is restocking but so is Iran. Iran uses this time to um dig out missile silos that were buried. The Americans think that when they bury a missile silo that it's gone, but it's not because there's a blast door at the end of the silo. You simply open the blast door, you dig out the launch um silo and you continue to feed those various silos through railway tracks underneath the ground and those are completely uh unimpacted. So the time um is used by both militaries um to prepare for the next stage of the battle.
If we look at number eight here, you can see um the USS Bush um sailing. You can see it down at the bottom of Africa there. SCA u going around the Cape of Good Hope. Um, there was a lot of talk about that this was happening because the bush might be afraid to travel through the Red Sea. Um, which is possible although the Ford traveled through the Suez and into the Red Sea before it had its um laundry fire in the Red Sea. Um, but the I think that the simple explanation is that when those ships are in the Suez Canal, they're completely trapped in the canal. They could be attacked. Their uh GPS transponders are on. They're completely trackable. Whereas when they're uh going overseas um they're less so. They could also train when they're on their way over to deploy. Um, but still gives you a sense that they're willing more willing to spend three extra days um to get to the theater um by traveling all the way around Africa, which is what ships are doing now that previously used to travel through um the Suez and through the Red Sea. And you can see that happening already with tanker traffic. Tanker traffic is moving to the US to fill up with um US crude at this point um right now. So there's some uh belief that there's some benefit to the US to this blockade, but it's uh not true. It's not going to be at all true and it's going to impact households all across the world, what we're dealing with right now and going forward. So the US blockade um adds stupidity onto an already idiotic war that they have launched uh against Iran.
Let's look at the next slide here. You can see um I wanted to show you this. These are the uh this is also bare minimum because we know that SenCom has been lying every single day of this war um and hiding its casualties, hiding its physical casualties and hiding its hardware casualties as well. But you could see this from the uh the war zone. They put together this graphic of lost um acknowledged lost um aircraft assets. Dozens of Reaper drones. I think that's um again a light number. Um, but still they're talking about uh you know $30 million drones times dozens lost. You could see the four F uh F-15E Strike Eagles. Three of them were shot down in Kuwait by friendly fire and the one that was shot down by Iranian air defenses uh a couple weeks back, the uh the Awoks, the advanced uh early warning and command aircraft, the E G the E3G centuries. And that second one, it says it's damaged. We know that that one is damaged. So, um two one was completely destroyed and one at least one more damaged on the runway. And then on the right hand side, that's from the uh so-called rescue operation where they lost um two um cargo planes. They were HC130 cargo planes. They lost a pair of those. They lost four um of their little birds and they lost an A-10 Warthog that crash landed in Kuwait. And they also lost two uh combat search and rescue versions of Blackhawk attack helicopters. And that shinook that you see there I showed you on last week's show. Just wanted to uh keep the tally up about uh lost aircraft.
We look on the next slide here 9B. Um, they also lost um the Navy's um MQ4 Triton, which is a uh $240 million um sea surveillance drone. Um, and one of only 20 that they have. This went down on April the 9th. Um, it crashed um and lo its transponder disappeared um over the um over the straight just uh just outside of the straight in the Gulf um of Oman. But uh another significant loss for uh the US.
Let's look at the next slide cuz the uh KC135s were also on that. These are the strategic air refueling planes. And you can see this one pockm marked like it got hit by um a shotgun. Um, except the shotgun was a ballistic missile presumably. Um, and that's shrapnel hitting it from when it was on the runway. This is one of 10 that were lost. And this is uh we can go to the next one because you can see it again on these. These are taken by uh aviation photographers that are in the UK that um you know the hobbyists that are showing this this these shots are by Andrew McKel McKelvie um who is an aviation photographer and he got these shots. These were um the planes that were uh hit on the runway at uh the Prince Sultan air base. So you can see they had to patch it up and these are the ones that are flying. So, um, we can count probably, uh, how many don't arrive back, uh, that were destroyed. Again, we're going completely off SENCOM. All the damage on US bases has all been kept secret. Um, but that will all come out there. It's impossible to keep that secret. Um, with the number of soldiers that are deployed, um, it's just I I don't believe that they're going to be able to hide these losses um permanently, but we will, um, we will follow it.
So that is the situation in the strait. Um, let's move to Lebanon where we are covering uh Israel's invasion of South Lebanon. Again you are watching and listening to the electronic inifat. I am John Elmer and this is the resistance report uh Lebanon version here.
Let's take a look at the map. We have six currently six um Israeli military divisions participating in this war that would match the invasion of Gaza. But as I've been saying on this show for um years now, the complement of a full division is not happening in the Israeli military because of the reservists who don't report back. Um, the numbers are not full complements. So they're not the same number of troops that were in Gaza, but it is six divisions and six divisions fighting for 48 days in Lebanon um have not been able to move more than a few kilometers. Um, the main battle right now that is happening in uh apparently there's a ceasefire just before we went on air or believe it when I see it. Um, but uh Bintage Bale in the south in the central there um that you can see that is um a long symbolic um heart of the resistance in after the Israelis drove after the Israelis were driven out of South Lebanon and literally ran away down the hill in the year 2000. Um, and Nasalla gave a speech um in the stadium in Bintage Bale and he called um the uh Israelis a spiderweb. Um, and that has been stuck in the Israelis craw for a generation. Um, and they wanted to go back in and take vintage bail. They have been unable to do that um at this point. Fierce resistance um casualties on the Israeli side again u sketchy casualty reporting from the Israelis but um dozens um are wounded a day um in these battles face-to-face battles these battles um the they take time because of operational security in order to get the videos out so we haven't seen videos from the battle in Vintage Bale yet but we will um as the um operational security allows calls for it.
Again, Israel is carrying out um heinous massacres in Lebanon, targeting civilians. Um, Norah talked about it um uh and Raquaya Shamsadim talked about it on our earlier report at the beginning um about the massacre on Black Wednesday when more than 300 people were killed in according to the Israeli Air Force a 60-second window of time. Um, they're killing paramedics um at a prodigious rate like they did in Gaza. And not just paramedics from one particular agency being targeted, but all the different paramedics agencies, including the Red Cross, are being targeted. Last night um there was a quadruple tap um massacre of three sets of paramedics going to um another massacre. Um, more than 90 paramedics have been killed.
So even with the um assistance of five forward bases that Israel established inside Lebanon and six divisions all on the ground fighting um there is no sign that the Israelis are advancing beyond even the first few kilometers from those um points and you can see where Bentage Bale is um on this map. It's near the border. There's also heavy fighting up in the top of the Galilee panhandle um in the Hoola Valley um and that's where the Israelis are trying to reach the Latani River by um the shortest possible distance and then they take pictures on the Latani and say we made it to the Latani. But you can look at this map and see how far they are from actually doing that um on the eve of the ceasefire which apparently is a 10-day ceasefire going into effect today.
All right. Let's take a look at the first videos. Again, there's a little bit of a delay on these videos. So, we're looking at videos um right now from the um from the fourth week of the battle in um late March. And again, these FPV firsterson view drones where the pilot is um viewing through the video and we can see what the pilot sees. Um, and you can see this first operation here. This is in T Bay. This is in the north of the just on the other side of the Galilee panhandle. And every one of these drone shots, you could see the destruction in Lebanon, which is Israel's primary military objective. They said they want to turn um South Lebanon into Bethan. But look at the destruction there that you can see. We're looking um I mean it's really remarkable views and that's why these FPV drones are so potent. There you can see the Hummer coming up the hill. The the pilot spots it, circles around here, and he's going to meet him as he comes up the road. Remember that there's an anti-tank um warhead attached to these drones. I broke these drones down last week. So if you didn't catch last week's show, you should go back and get it because um go back and watch. You can get that on the resistance report um playlist on our YouTube channel. Um, because the Hezbollah build is brilliant how they have done it. There you go. Direct hit on a Humvey with an anti-tank missile. That is a devastating hit.
We can see the next um video as well. Um, this is over on the coast number we're on 14B over on the coast north of Nura. Um, this operation came through um on video yesterday. Um, you can see them marking their positions here and you can see the coast to the right. Um, that is the western coast. We're just north of Nakura. Um, and this is in Alba. Um, and the, uh, quadcopter here is going to seek out a tank. There you see it in the bottom right hand corner encircled. And as these pilots get better week in and week out, and there's another tank and an uh, an Nom troop carrier there that is identifying. Previously, we had seen them dive right down onto that target. Um, but the development of the uh operations has grown significantly just in the time that we've been watching. Now, we're watching that drone from a second camera. And you see how at the bottom of that drone, it's what it's carrying. It's carrying an RPG warhead. Um, and so it's essentially carrying this RPG warhead right down onto the target. Um, and the pilot sees through his uh headset how to do that. And we're watching it here from a second camera. It's going to meet this tank and drop right now um out of the sky and hit this tank. You can see the tank um you can see the strike on the tank there. And then the tank is going to put up a smoke screen right here in order to try to hide its position thinking that it's a one-off attack. But here we're going to move to the tank killer teams using anti-tank guided missile strikes. Presumably this is a cornet strike because we don't see um the onboard camera that the Almas would have. But there you're about to see um the anti-tank missile hit that tank that was attempting to cover itself. Uh, another direct hit. So this is a complex ambush using FPV drones.
This is civilian footage showing from um probably from Ty from Seur um just up the coast um from south of of there. Um, and you can see um once they get the Israeli troops moving to these targeted vehicles now you're going to see um heavy rocket fire on the position that they established. So complex operations being executed across all the fronts. This is one of the fronts, the coastal front. Um, there's two Israeli divisions moving up the coast here. Um, and this operation is in that area of operations. Um, that's a pretty significant strike.
Um, we can go to the next one is another FPV drone strike. This is now um on the eastern um battlefront which is at the top of the Galilee panhandle in where Israel's Kirat Shimmona is and this is a new Israeli base that they have established um for these operations in South Lebanon in um again in a civilian community as always. Um, using the civilians um as a human shield and of course then any kind of damage or destruction in the town is considered um targeting civilians. But we watch um through these videos and if we didn't have these videos we wouldn't be able to prove these things that's showing the Israeli settlement and the new position there. Um, these these drones can travel tens of kilometers um you know at the farthest reach maybe 30 um plus kilometers but um well within range um in the 20 to 30 kilometers um and that's why we see the distance traveled and I I left these videos um for the whole flight that they showed so you can see them moving across the terrain. It gives you a really good idea of what the battle space is like, how challenging it is. uh an area to fight in here. The drone is coming down on the base. You can see their cars. You can see the Humvey. And if you look to the left, you're going to see a soldier um just um off to the side there. There you see him um off to the side of this Humvey that gets hit with an anti-tank missile, which would destroy that Humvey. Um, unclear about that soldier. Um, so that's another significant operation.
Let's look at 16. Uh oh. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, let's look at 16. This is going to be a pair of anti-tank guided missile strikes. That was just going to repeat in that previous video. Um, but I think we got a good view of it. Um, there you can see the soldiers using houses again, occupying houses as soon as they come across the border. There's the anti-tank missile. You can watch it drop out of the sky and hit directly on that Israeli troop position. Um, this is southwest of Bintage Bale. Um, the Israelis are trying to move up towards and surround Bintage Bale. Um, but they're in a fierce battle um with the resistance um in Bintage Bale um to prevent that. Although that is not the resistance strategy. Um, there's going to be a second anti-tank strike here. The the video that we're watching, we're watching smoke um billowing from the first target. Um, and you're going to see um movement of troops for the evacuation of the wounded here. The Israelis have claimed hundreds of wounded. Um, but their casualty counts are as sketchy as always. And you're going to see a second strike here um on that same position. So complex coordinated strikes all across the battle space from the furthest western point to the furthest eastern point in um in Lebanon in south Lebanon. Um, and Hezbollah is able to carry out these operations. They use the red circle um in the way that Kasam used the um red triangle.
So, let's look at the next one. We've got drone strikes on Israeli troop positions. And this is how you reach them. The Israelis um are being reached by these drones, both the FPV quadcopters that we're calling drones. Um, but these drones are um the fixed wing drones, the SIAD 107s that they fire. Um, and they are they don't make as much noise. They have an electric propeller. Here we're watching the fighters entering the location, the targeting data. And again, it's GPS targeting data. you can basically put what window you want to put the drone into. Um, and it can hit. We're going to see here they're compressed air launchers, which is also smart because it leaves a lighter um, uh, heat signature from the launches. So, these fighters are we're looking at these fighters um completely shrouded um in the um foliage in the bush um in Lebanon here. um completely um concealing the launch and then um aiming them at their targets u that are miles away. And that's the asset of these drones that are built in Lebanon, built by Hezbala. Um, of course sharing Iranian technology and insight, but built in um but built by Hezbollah. And you can see that they even made the drones camouflage. So when you're mounting the drones, they hide within the trees. And there you see um the strike there on an Israeli position. Uh, again, you can see the evacuation of apparently wounded troops um which we're hearing about dozens a day. Um, but we haven't gotten full tallies in the same way that um they hid those casualties during the war in Gaza.
Let's look a look at take a look at number 18 here. This is a stitch I made of a bunch of um drone ops. um here targeting an IDF barracks. You can see they put it on a map handy for us so we can see where they're targeting. And again, look at just those two small rails. Um, it's easy to move, easy to put into place. You can see the camouflage there. They plug in the coordinates for the strike and they launch with the air compressor and these are actually pretty safe operations to um execute for the fighters and it has made the drones a significant part of this stage of the battle. And again what I to repeat we are a week behind um or or so in getting the battle videos. So, these operations are taking place when the Israelis are at a distance um at a distance that they're not reachable through um through other weapons. They're being hit with these drone strikes. And as this is going on, I'll talk a little bit more about this um towards the end, but rocket attacks are happening constantly during these operations. This is a stitch of three separate operations that targeted u two three IDF bases and barracks um in the north. Um, and you can see those operations are very difficult to find the launch site of Hzbollah carried out more than 230 drone operations of this style um in the first month um of the battle. So you know you're seeing dozens of these a day. Um, and they will continue because they will fire these drones on the rear guard um of the Israelis which they do. They're constantly firing rockets and drones at the back positions of Israeli troops that are mustering to come into um into Lebanon. So, it's really a multi- um a multifaceted resistance that's happening all across the territory and all across the types of weapons um and units within Hzbollah.
Here you can see a night launch. And again, that's the air compressor. I've shown you guys lots of drone launches at night where you see the long red um tail of the um rocket boost. Um, but the air compressor just leaves that little bit of um friction that you see. Um, it's more it's not a flame so much as it is the friction of the launch from the um metal railings. Um, so that's these are these are all Hezbollah built this and they have presumably um as many of them as they need for this battle. Um, because we didn't see them used that much in the first um in the first major battle in 23 and 24. Although there were a couple of um very high-profile operations, including putting two of these SID 107s into the Golani Brigade base um while they were um all mustering to go to Lebanon um that killed and wounded something like 60 Israeli soldiers in that single attack. So there's the um there's the side 107 going out.
And if we look at the next slide, I just gave you a little freeze frame so that you could see what it looks like on its exit. And then now let's watch in the next one. Watch it arriving in Israel. And there it is um on the Israeli side shown by civilians camera. This is going to be shot out of the air by an Apache attack helicopter. The helicopters chase them all around. Um, and we don't see a ton of these getting shot out of the air. uh they would for sure want everyone that they do to be shown. Um, and I think that they're pretty rare. They they we saw them in those previous videos. They have a very small heat signature. They're battery powered. Some of them have wooden propellers. Um, their radar cross-section is very minimal and it's very difficult to see them. We saw in the first battle in 2024 that Israel had people literally eyeballing them um on the other side of the border. Their job was to literally watch to see them flying and then radio them in. And that was again for Israel. That was civilians doing that work um for Israel that we watched. I showed you guys a 60 minutes clip of that um the way that the civilians were integrated into the military to do this kind of observation of these drones um because they're very difficult to find with the traditional um military radars.
Let's take a look at this pretty remarkable operation number 21 we're on now. This is a Gdder anti-ship cruise missile that was launched um two weeks back um launched at the sea. It's a pretty significant um weapon that you'll see here. I always Amen. Amen. Maybe we can loop that one more time without audio. And I can just uh point out a couple of things in this. So this is a pretty significant missile. This is the first time we saw this um in this battle. Um, this is an Iranian anti-ship cruise missile. There you see Immad McNeia who is the founder, the builder, the architect of the Islamic resistance, the military wing um who was assassinated um in Syria back in 2008 I believe. Um, but his um forces Haj Radwan is his nickname and the Radwan forces are named after him, the shock troops, the um the most elite fighters in Hezbollah who are fighting right now in the south. Um, so they're saluting to Mugnia. They also dedicate this to Nasra. Um, there you can see um Ham and um Nasra, Ali Ham, and then his son along with um Naim Kasum. Um, and they saluted them with the launch of that missile. So, a pretty significant operation. Um, Hezbollah said in the field report that they were tracking an Israeli warship off the coast that was carrying out offensive operations. Um, there was some talk at the time that it may have been a British ship that was targeted. But according to the field report, they had been tracking that vessel for hours before launching um this attack. And you can see um the way here that they are canister launched. Um, and Hezbollah has a number of these and it's the reason why ships are not off the coast and it's the reason why the um aircraft carriers that were coming ostensibly to defend Israel had to stay so far off the Israeli coast that they actually weren't much use in the um in the missile defense array because their radars were set back too far um because of missiles like this. You can see the size of it there. Um, and these are capabilities that Hzbala has. Um, and they the writing on um know this next, let's go to the next one.
There you see it launch. It's a ski seping missile. So, it flies just above um the sea and it got it flies below radar, most radar. Um, and here you see them launching a Pava cruise missile. This is an Iranian cruise missile and written on it says, "We will never accept humiliation and our banner will never fall." We're watching it here be launched um from its rail launch. And we saw these um I broke these down during True Promise one and True Promise 2. The Iranians used these cruise missiles in um staggered attacks with ballistic missiles and with drones. Um, the cruise missiles are faster than drones, slower than ballistic missiles, and so they make a layered um um a layered attack that we haven't seen in this round so much. Um, but we definitely saw it in the demonstration battles of True Promise One and True Promise 2. So this was an operation um targeting Israeli troops in the Galilee panhandle. And again, we're still in late March with these videos. We're getting them um about a week to 10 days later again because it's very difficult to get these um footages through South Lebanon. Um, but still every single day um on the minute of the operations, there is clearly command and control because the field reports are filed within minutes of the operations. The field reports go all 24 hours around the clock. Um, and many days we're seeing 80 um more than 70 up to 95 operations in a day. Um, so a remarkable tempo of operations still by Hezbollah.
Let's take a look at 23. Um, these are FATA class. Um, that's Hifa there they're showing you and an Israeli um position south of Hifa targeting the industrial base. Um, uh this these are FATA um they're either FATA 110s or FATA 360s. We didn't know that Hzbollah had FATA 360s which are smaller versions of FATA 110s. Um, but we're we have seemingly seen these um launched several times during the war um that are by appearance uh FATA 360s. They're shorter range. Um, but the FATA 110s we have seen launched and the Fata 110s are what um Iran has been using to um batter the Gulf. So you can see the launch of it there. Precisiong guided um heavy warhead um you know real really accurate missiles um that Hezbollah is using here against um an Israeli base that is west of Hideera. You could see a good shot of that missile there. So, these are heavy um and precise missiles and we've been seeing apparently no shortage of these either. Hezbollah has promised to fight an existential battle. Naim Kasam, the secretary general, spoke the other day and said that they're willing to fight till their last breath. Um, and that their banner will never fall. Um, and so they're treating this as an existential battle, which I think is a an appropriate way to look at um the fight when um Israel is promising to turn um south Lebanon into Beth Hanoon, which was the sort of um you know, the centerpiece of the genocide. Um, so yeah, this does seem to be an existential fight for Hezbollah and they have been fighting this battle um very significantly because we can remember people We heard that Hezbollah was defeated. Um, Israel said that because they blew up some pagers and assassinated um some senior generals and um of course Nasallah that um Hezbollah was defeated. But we know watching this program um that we tracked the ground battle in South Lebanon um right up to the point of the ceasefire and and Hezbollah was not defeated. They repelled the ground invasion at that time. Um, and they're doing it again this time, um, in even more significant ways. Um, using even more of their fighters.
Let's look at 24. Um, because one of the things that Israel, um, so this is actually, sorry, I was one ahead of myself. This is correct, 24. Um, they're, you're going to watch um the Fowl one um heavy rockets be here, the 60 kilo warhead. And again, we're seeing that Hezbala military media is giving cameras to the fighters um in a way that we never saw before. So, we see the setup um of these operations, what goes into them, um how many men it takes um qualified fighters to execute these operations. And this is a pickupmounted um fail um phallic um rocket launcher. So, you're seeing a um pickup truck that the fighters say have no brakes. Um, they're talking to each other um as they're driving and he's saying, "I don't want to be filmed." He says, "Don't film me. Delete it." And the other guy says to him, "What message do you send?" And he says, "The resistance is just fine." And we remember back in 2024, um Hezbollah released a video when Israel said that they had destroyed all of Israel's all of Hezbollah's drones. Uh Hezbollah re released a video showing a a bunker full of like thousands of drones that said our drones are just fine. Um, so that's what the fighter says here. And when they park here, they say the truck has no brakes, so they got to put a stone behind it. There you see the fighter putting the stone behind it. Um, I guess the parking brakes blown on this one, but you see them raise the the launcher. Um, and you can see the fighters here. Um, oftentimes we've been seeing the fighters that are doing these um, manning the control, the launch controllers um, have fingers missing from the pager operations. I think you'll see that in the next video. Um, we've seen it in a few other videos as well. And Hezbollah has wanted to show those um because Israel thought that that was the end of the war. if you blew some hands off some fighters and killed a bunch of children um with the pagers um that Hezbollah would somehow collapse.
Let's look at the next one. 25. This is another one of these remarkable um fadi launchers here. We're seeing in the underground that preparation for it. Um, Israel said that they have destroyed um 200 um launchers and guaranteed they've counted this um FODI launcher multiple times because when you see it um it's in pretty rough shape but they still are able to use it. Um, and so just puts further lie to Israel's statistics of I mean I don't know where they get these numbers anyway but um you know they've been bragging about number of barrels. So if a if a multiple launch rocket system has 16 barrels, they're they're saying we took out 16 rocket launchers, which is just not a very accurate way of describing um your hits. And even still, when hit these launchers, multiple launchers here, you can see the fad launcher here. Um, watch when the truck comes around the corner, you'll see that it's been hit multiple times. Um, the fighters say um they quote from um the Quran a couple times, "Permission to fight has been given to those who are being fought." Um, this is a defensive war for Hezbollah. We see them in the trucks. We never we've never seen this before in their videos. They were so tight about this kind of stuff. Um, but in this round they've shown us this video and it's just given us a remarkable ed um edge into understanding what goes into all these operations, the um professionalism of these different units that are normally um we only see the rockets being launched. We don't see the crew behind it, but you can see um the way that they camouflage their trucks. They conceal the launchers using the u the trees there. We'll get a shot before. There's the fighters giving the um victory sign as we see their personalities. All of this stuff is just um it's just that's what happened. There's a fighter with who had his fingers blown off showing you them. He wants you to see them as he carries out um these operations. And this is another fatty launcher. The fatty is a heavy warhead rocket. It has precisiong guided capabilities that had been added onto them by Hezbollah. Um, and these part these play a significant part in attacking Israel's um industrial base but also its troops behind um the backline um where they're trying to muster to um enter South Lebanon.
So that has been this has been the resistance report for day 923 of Israel's genocide and day 45 of Hezbollah's defense of South Lebanon. Hey, hey, hey.