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tv   Documentary Hajj Radwan 1  PRESSTV  December 24, 2023 8:02am-8:31am IRST

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across the southern lebanese borders. of on thursday, january 29th, 2004, a plane carrying lebanese prisoners landed at beirut's airport. four years of indirect negotiations between israel and hezbolah had reached a conclusion. the prisoner exchange had taken place and hesbollah had been able to free more than 400 arab and lebanese detainees from israeli prisons. this was a great victory for hizbollah. all regional media outlets were covering every single moment of the celebration. but at the event there was an empty chair. the chair... belong
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to the only libanese prisoner who had not been released, the only lebanese prisoner who of the israelis had explicitly refused to release. هم حمقى لانهم احتفظوا بالاخ سميه شهر اثنين تلاته شو بصير ببين كان يجب ان يطلق سراحه الان وان يكون على هذا الكرسي. ' in the future only meant one thing, taking israeli prisoners again. it was a difficult and complex operation which the secretary general had announced to his jihadi forces in front of the cameras of different news
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outlets and not in secret, the operation would be directly planned and executed by his jihadi deputy a man who very few people knew, secret named haj radwan. he was born in 1962 in beirot's shiah neighborhood. his father owned a small restaurant and his mother who was pious woman would hold religious studies classes for the ladies in the neighborhood. he was the first child of their small family. he grew up and went to school in the same neighborhood. he was 13 year. years old when their normal life
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was suddenly turned upside down. 197. 75, a civil war broke out between left and right-wing parties. the war tore beirot apart in two sections. many of the people who lived in the neighborhoods where the war was being fought, left their homes and took refuge in the villages. he, along with his family, was forced to move to his father's ancestoral village in the south. this unwanted migration made him more familiar with palestinian groups. he underwent initial. military trainings in
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palestinian camps and became an official member of the fatah organization. upon his return to bayrut, because of his intelligence and courage, he made great progress in fatah and became member of the elite forces 17, an intelligence force at the heart of the fatah organization, which was responsible for the personal security of the leaders of the organization and combatting mosad's activities. he became familiar with imam komaini with the victory of the islamic revolution of iran. he, like many other muslim youths slowly became captivated by amaja who had defeated the shaw of iran with empty hands. his concerned was the liberation of palestine and had made islam the basis of his government. on june the 6th, 1982, when
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ariel sheron gave the orders to attack lebanon, he had traveled to iran as the bodyguard of sayed muhammad hussein fazlah. they had come to tehran to take part in the conferences of liberation movements, but he also had a personal motivation, meeting among komeini. it was a dream that many lebanese muslim youths had in those days, but word of the israeli attack on lebanon cut the conferences short and the participants quickly returned to lebanon. he also went back to lebanon after meeting with imam komaini. when they arrived, the east of beirot had been occupied and neighborhoods were besieged by the israeli forces. in their first attack, he and a group of his friends were able to destroy an israeli tank and personnel carrier. word of this attack caused the lebanese army to open up case against him accusing him of fighting israel. the case was
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filed under his real name imad faiz mugh. after the occupation, lebanon had become another country. palestinian fighters had been expelled, a pro israeli government was in place and the massacres of sabra and shatila had wiped away the courage of the people to resist. the days of absolute hopelessness and fear had begun, but in the fall of that year, an important event took place in the south. it was rainy morning. when a white pojo 504 sped its way into the israeli military headquarters in the city of tyre, there was a huge explosion and few seconds later the building housing the israeli forces came crashing down on them. in one day, in one attack, more than 100 israeli
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officers and soldiers were killed. the attack became the biggest anti-israeli operation in the history of the resistance. it was after this attack which imad. as one of the main planners began living in hiding, the 1980s were a difficult time for western forces in lebanon, and the name imad was word of mouth as the cause of these difficult days. even though during these days he had his own independent group and organization, he used all his power to establish, shape and strengthen hezbollah, and his preference was
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to fight israel with his own group, his own way and with a free hand. intelligence services from different countries were after his arrest or assassination. a ghost who would easily pass the borders of different countries, but they were never able to pinpoint his location. he had dedicated his life to the struggle with israel. when sayid hassan nasrollah became secretary general, imad became the leader of hezbollah's intelligence apparatus and used all his experience for heizbollah to have the upper hand when it came to the information warfare with israel. this upper hand proved
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itself with the successful assassinations of israeli commanders and the leaders of the lahad army, but the more... significant event happened in 1997 when he was able to decode the imagery of israeli drones and with that he was able to cause the defeat of the israeli special forces unit in ansaria village. the ansaria operation was the first time in israeli history that its special forces unit had been defeated. year after the ansaria operation, hajamad became sayyad nasrolah's jihadi deputy and chose the name haj radwan for himself, while maintaining his previous role in the intelligence apparatus, he also took over command of hezbollah's military. it didn't take long before operations against israel became more extensive and goal oriented. he used the
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years of experience he had in the intelligence fight against israel in military operations. he was a commander who would count on all financial and material facilities, but would never الامكانات اصل البرامج اصل التكتيك اصل صياغه الاهداف اصلا وضع السياسات اصل. وضع الاساليب والطرائق للعمل الاصل لكن الاصل الرئيسي هو الروحي الروح. "this was the first time that israel was forced to leave the areas it had occupied
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because of resistance operations, and again haj radwan's name was registered as a leading role in israel's historic withdrawal. but the story didn't end. there were still many lebanese prisoners in israeli jails, something hisbollah could not ignore. even though taking israeli hostages was difficult and impossible, it seemed to be the only way to get the prisoners released. haj radwan was the commander of this impossible mission in the shebha farms.
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it was after this operation that negotiations to exchange prisoners sped up. four years of indirect negotiations between hizbollah and israel came to fruition on thursday, january 29, 2004. 439 prisoners and 59 marters were exchanged with mosad officer and the bodies of three israeli soldiers. this left only one lebanese prisoner in israely custody. this was why hezbollah's secretary general promised more hostage takings in. the ceremony to welcome the prisoners. it was obvious that he was counting on the
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capability and power of a commander who had spend his entire life fighting israel. haj radwan had to carry out the operation a time when the enemy had put its forces total standby. he chose an elite group of hezbollah's best forces and held difficult and clear cut training sessions for them. he was present for the trainings because he wanted to personally make sure that the operation would succeed حدا بس يرمي عليها وطبعا ميله وحده م يعني اذا اثنين نزلوا رمي بس بال on the morning
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of july the 12th, 2006, hezbollah forces were able to pass through the border barriers and take two israeli soldiers hostage. كل اسرى الموجودين عننا لن يعودوا الى الديار الا بوسيله واحده تفاوض غير المباشر والتبادل. in an unprecedented event, the israeli prime minister ordered attacks on lebanon. israeli
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fighter jets bombed lebanese cities and villages from the south to the north. then, by relying on their spies, they targeted hisbollah's missile launchpads, not knowing that they had once again been tricked and fallen in the trap of haj radhawan. in the previous years he had allowed israel to identify centers where hizbollah had its missil so that israeli intelligence capable. abilities would focus on these unreal targets. the general staff of the israeli military directly informed the prime minister the destruction of these targets and congratulated him on winning the war. but exactly the next day more than 100 missiles were launched at israeli settlements. after
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that and for weeks the israeli air force was bombing lebanon in discriminately only with the hope of destroying hezbollah's launchpads, and on the other side, hezbolah missiles were targeting occupied palestine, including hifa. this caused the commander of the israeli forces to decide to launch a ground attack on lebanon by counting on their merkava tanks. badhaj radwan and the other resistance commanders had already predicted the attack. hezbollah fighters. used cornet missiles and roadside bombs to block the path the israeli attack. hisbollah's launch pads and this was how the longest war israel had fought ended in its defeat.
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two years after the 33-day war, the israelis were forced to release samir qantar and other prisoners that hizbullah wanted. haj radhowan was not present on that day, but he had planned the hostage taking operation in such a way that the israelis were not able to know whether their hostages were dead or alive even after he was gone. on july the 16th, 2008, the prisoner exchange deal was implemented, an operation which was adorned by the name of murder haj radhwan, a man whose name is registered in history alongside israel's greatest defeats, 2000,
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اصحى مع بعض.
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it speaks with me, the saint of the soil, from the blood and the ashes, it speaks with
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me the sound of the rain from the battle and the victory, victory. oh palestine, i free you, oh palestine i feel. you, oh palestine, i free you, oh palestine, i free you, my every breath is a
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cry to my enemy, and i cry out, cry out, cry out to the evil enemy, the flame within my heart. will burn you, i cry out, and the thunder in my voice will defen you, i cry out, and the tornado within my soul, will will you away. "my bleeding wound once felt those on forgotten, but the aching
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sorrow in me, never gone, i raise it with my anger and love, love of my land, anger..." that your dead, raise it with my anger and love, love of my land, anger at your d, wounded by hatred, i'm breathing, breathing. breathing the magic perfume of my homeland palestine, wounded in love, my hands turn
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around the branches of the olive tree, seeking peace, seeking peace, but as long as the pillows of our children are drinch in blood. as long as you have the thorn crown of evil force, i'm a flame and thunder and tornado, and i cry out, i cry out, oh my god, i pray you, s you, my son, i pray you,
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صدام على كل قرارات الامم المتحده وعلى كل ما تريده الولايات المتحده لكان قد اطيح به وبدات عمليه انهيار للعراق تماما وسط فوظه having destroyed saddam's regime they don't want to see an independent regime and worst of all with close relations with tehran, close relations with damascus. بدا الحجي ابو مهدي مع حجي قاسم بترتيب ل انشاء فصائل جهاديه تقاوم
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الامريكان. شهر السابع من عام 2007 بدات عمليه التهيئه لصاروخ الاشتر وهو الذي قلب المعادله كم هائل من الصواريخ المدمره الكبيره قلبت هذه القاعده راسا على عقد هم ظنوا ان اغتيال المهندس في العراق وقاسم سليماني من ايران.
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the headlines to sarary: iran's leader slams the us for shamelessly vedoing a un resolution on the gaza ceasefire and says the us, the uk and the israel regime are the same. the number of lost palestinian lives is now nearly 20,300 as israeli onslot on gaza approaches this 80th days. hamas official vows the movement will not allow israel to achieve any of his goals in gaza, calling fts to eliminate the palestinian resistance, empty.