hello and welcome to new episode of the creative news roundup, we one stop shop for all news west asia, my name is stevan carrillo, i am the head of news for the cradle, as usual i'm joined by my colleagues, content creator and social media manager. for the cradle, simon and columnist and editor for the cradle sharmin narwani. we are three days removed from the assassination of hisbollah chief hassan lasralla in a brutal attack in a heavily populated area of beirot in which israely jets dropped anywhere between 80 and 100 heavy bombs provided by the united states destroyed several buildings and um killed aassan killed uh. official and

uh well leveled this this area of the city, where does lebanon go from here? where does cuz b from here and uh what do we make of these? i think more than one thing is true at the same time, we've discussed all of us before that um you know israel's assassination policy doesn't ultimately uh you know strategically make a difference on on the ground on the ground, but you know it doesn't make the blow any easier. when it's somebody like hassanlah which is you know a man larger than life really and we're not of here to do an obituary for him buse i think if people know or want to know more it's very easy for them to know more but so we we know this we know this from you know from the time when secretary general abbaswi was assassinated and and nasalah took his place and at the time analysts and media were saying that it's the end of hazballah after abbas was assassinated and now the media is

doing the same thing, you know, and it's simply not true, but that doesn't make the blow easier, and and we know this, we know this from hamas, you know, ahmad yasin, abdul aziz, we know this from the pij, people were always felt to be irreplaceable, the resistance is not built in that way, we don't need a report or an analysis to tell us that he was at this time assassinated because he refused to separate the lebanese front from the gaza front, and you know we don't need a report. for that, the abc news came out and said israely officials said that they had to assassinate him because he refused to separate the two fronts and we israelies were trying for very long time to reach diplomatic solution, he refused, i believe that. of course there are many benefits, perceived benefits for israel to assassinate him, but at this time when his in his last speech he challenged them directly and said he will not be able to return the south to the north and we will the fronts will not be separated. yeah, you know, back to netanyahu's decision.

when he was at the un, it was, the israelis put out a um photo of him making the phone in call to kill nasralah, and here he was at the un, not just any time and not just any place, this was this is the the body where international law is made, this is the you know where the un charter was devised um, you know to to underpin ' sovereinity and territorial integrity as an absolute um, you know, foundation of the new order, but he did this photo off and it showed that netanyahu, um, who was there at the time where all world leaders had congregated was above them, here he is sitting in the seat where international law is created, with every world leader there, and he, the chosen one, decides to do something, this ob's and in violation of all

treaties and conventions and law, um, it is again, man strategy, israel going to friends and foes alike and and showing them that there's nothing they can't get away with, but in terms of what's changed, i think the most important thing that will have changed and that we will see in the days ahead is until now, so until 11 months into this war, the the entire resistance saxes. had sought to uh get israel to stop its war on gaza at the same time seeking to um halt any escalation into racial war. that has changed, there is no longer any attempt going to be made as israel comes like raging bull its neighboring of countries. um, so that uh that strategy while it worked for a long time, you know, as israel was slow. taking incremental hits

during these 11 ons, israel decided that it needed to take the initiative, it needed to take the lead to change the dynamic of this war, which it did, it did very successful. um, although entirely illegally, um, but the outcome of this will actually release the axess from that hard strategy that they cleave to for 11 months, which was um, do what you must, but don't let this escalate. now, now that's off the table, um, and israel, really in two weeks took the lead entirely, they were being led before, you know, now they took the lead, but like others have said in the... texas, you win some, you lose some, it's the important thing is who comes up victorious at the end of the war, and they have calculated from the beginning that this going to be a long protracted war, a war of attrition, which israel cannot sustain, because that is the nature of israel's military strategy from day one of

the existence of the state. um, there is, there are several narratives that are emerge, one is the narrative that hamas and hizbullah are now defeated, please folks, don't even... do this for second, i say this because here at the cradle we reported in you know um numerous podcasts since we got this think tank report, several think tanks which cnn reported on that hamases 24 for battalions and 21 operational and yeah and the other three are um are in the process of regrouping so hamas has a leader yah sanwar as you saw very swiftly after the killing of the... i mean we we have heard that the entire leadership of hisbullah has already been replaced and decided upon um though that has

not yet been confirmed by hisbullah but this is what we've heard from closest allies this is the nature of institution this is not a red tag group, this is not the asymmetrical warfare of the 1980s and the 1990s, this is a whole different era, so you know, as israel says, we cut off the head, um, yeah, and there's a thousand people waiting for these positions. interestingly, um, people who are more qualified than ever before because of the syrian theater and what that did in hisbollah's organizational and military transformation, i mean, operationally, 'in terms of being battle tested in in terms of reconnaissance, in terms of communications, the syrian battle brought up an entire generation of fighters um into a potential leadership roles, but you know there's too many of them and too few seats, so the seats

will never remain empty, anyone who says isbul hamas have been defeated is you know should wait few weeks and there was also you know to what you were saying about the syrian theater which is very true'. and i mean i'm we are none of us here know exactly what happened, we may not know for a long time, but uh this idea also of uh you know the communications being infiltrated and to what extent that is true and uh how long that's been going on and you know the pager attacks and walkie talky attacks up until today and months prior to that uh there's a peal reports now been going around that uh you know hazballah's involvement in the syrian war which you know was well justified, as we all agree, was what made them vulnerable to this infiltration, and i'd like to know what you know your thoughts are on that. yeah, i know the bigger reunization gets, right, the more facilities it occupies, the more production lines it has, the more um ranking

file that are doing basically civil civil types of jobs for the organization, the more opportunity there is for infiltration, i think when when the pager attack happened, that was the first thought then..." came no is technology. i think all of these things are combined. i don't think anymore that there is like some super mole, because it's very clear that even a super maul would not know the locations of each and everyone of these people uh, you know, all times of the day and night. um, do think that since october 8th, uh, when hisballan israel got into direct confrontation that israel has been able to use the facilities and technology of how many. countries, i mean at least 59 intelligence agencies around the world at israel's disposal, so that's why this this narrative that one guy gave them up when it's like you said this combined effort, and because this is elevanon is still a small country and because there's been very accelerated activity since october 8th, um,

it's harder to hide the movements right, so if you if you manage to identify one and then very carefully follow one who is now in way more meetings right, because they don't communicate in traditional ways anymore, the certainly the commanders of the organization, then you are going to lead to another one and another one, another one, so i believe that through um, not some sci-fi technological device that we've never heard of, but rathers through intense reconnaissance with the help of pretty much everybody, um, you the most technologically advanced countries, that they were able to slowly map out all these commanders, all the places they went, when the most important ones were coming together in one place, therefore identifying the way, way way, way deep ground um command setters etc., but as we've also seen, hisbolla hasn't

missed to beat it, it does continue at the same level prior to this assassination to hit israel in sensitive areas, but here's the thing, about israel's intelligence gathering capabilities that uh they've displayed over the past couple of weeks that uh there nothing to be scofted first of all, you think the paasures attack was more than enough evidence, giving nasrala i think also serves as evidence that they you know... where you're this report that you're referring to see about the syrian theater kind of opening up as well to um to be infiltrated guess, they talk specifically about the amount of of of data that israel has collected over the years, they talk about unit 9900 saying that they have uh that this is um programmers i guess writing algorithms that seat to terabytes and visual images that are collected by the tr of israel of the intelligence agencies that are just constantly being. uh so they know right, like all of sudden they identify on operative, could be a low level operative, could be mid

level, could it be you senior level, the moment you know that they change the routine, what does that mean, where is it going uh, they are constantly looking at lemon, they are constantly looking at everywhere, right they listen, they're listening to devices, they're listening to phones, through smart tvs, through car radios, again now they put bounds into people's pockets without them even knowing if you remember and in 2006 they actually tried to assassinate uh said hassan like uh at least two or three times and failed and it was actually since then that they uh changed their approach to intelligence gathering and so then the syrian war started and we went through that time and that was when they had changed their approach and lot of things in that report about how you know their televis gathering was uh boosted you know there's there's this attempt in western media since the assassination of hasas at first uh trying to saw division we're all like uh kind of um we all saw the... of course talking about an iranian maul that we hear about it was a syrian, it was the lebanise, it was somebody called and

said hasing something his way etc etc. but that while that may apply absolutely to its um success and assassinating most of the main hands of hezbullah, it doesn't apply to their the the hezbolah's military capabilities again because hisb has not shown um the most of its newer stuff that it has. it's the israelies are unable yet to identify those, and you lot of things will change within the access now, um, and we don't know what any of those things are, but you know, naim gasim, the deputy secretary general spoke just an hour or so ago, and he he made clear that what we are doing on the battlefield today, okay, is still the minimum of our capabilities, it's part of the reason why when people were saying why don't escalate against israel, along these 11 months, they understood that they did, they didn't want to show those, they didn't want to show the

launch pants for these things, they didn't want to provide the heat detection and the signals, that recon can capture on these things, they're saving it for when they needed to do, and we have to, you know, israel is winning in terms of with the loss in the battle scene only, israel in the last two weeks is winning the pr war, but israel is all about. public relations and its warfare, whereas the access is all about strategy, once you really once that locks into your brain, you will understand so many things working backward from new information. um, so now the question is, what is hisbololl waiting for? if it's only using its minimal capabilities as so much more capabilities, it's re, it's re established its command, its top command, it's um, ready to go, what is it waiting for? one of the things it's possibly waiting for is a ground invasion. okay, in which they can, the the hamas and the palesine resistance took um israeli prisoners

in which to exchange, but we're you know for for policy prisoners in israeli detention, but in this case you could have up to 10,000 israeli soldiers in lebanon, which gives hisbulle a massive massive hand um and and and that maybe what it's waiting for and and maybe keeping things a low boil unt because the israel are just bursting with confidence right now, bursting with brabado, which may in fact, and they're talking about today about, um, some have already said the ground war has a... ready started, they started to infiltrate the border, we don't know if that's true, we're not hearing, they're saying they've entered as well as well, whatever they're saying, the point is the more the marrier, in hasas last speech he said, you want to launch a ground war, please come, you have no idea for that, so that this would be maybe part of the low boil, i want

to go into something, um, there's a lot of propaganda here, so israel's thing, don't forget is... was a pr war, it's not just for its domestic constituents, it's to um amplify and power project in this region that it considers so dangerous for it, and globally, so nobody questions israel's action or takes steps against it. um, so seeding propaganda, for sure, dividing the lebanese population um by seading paranoia, by seading um, about spies, about who is working in... position about security, these are going to be absolutely the kinds of things we're going to be hearing, we are going to see revs of you, us articles where they seem to have the intimate details of every israeli operation in the commandos came in, they snuck in at 12:04 from this, you're going to see that kind of detail that basically is handed to

these stenographer journalists by intelligence assets of western agencies and is... you've got to take these with a pinch of salt, it is part of the pr war, it is part the you know, we're we're in the driver seat right now that israel wants to um keep going for as long as possible because the response is coming, and one of these now news is and that we've even heard of lebanon is that the iranians sold hizbullah out, okay, they sold them out and exchange for some nuclear deer, for some from sanctions relief, it's... let me just say something, okay, i'm just going to give you an example that is rock solid, 100% proven, so was the mastermind of lot of israel's, sorry's military strategies, in his lifetime and after he was assassinated, was killed a car bomb in damascus in february 2008, in the immediate aftermath of that

assassination of, the most senior. within potentially syria. seven years later, a series of orchestrated leaks to newsweek magazine, washington post on the same day, articles revealed that the milnia car bombing came courtesy of a joint operation by the cia and musad, okay, confirmed by the us government and the israeli government, so

eight years prior, they had said, it could have been his, it could have been syria. it's the same thing with the south asia. it could have been syria, then it could have been hisbullah, they did this all right, so now this information that an iranian mall provided this in intelligence on on how to kill nasralla and the top command is now being seated, so you got to disregard that immediately, the us always blames things it does itself on others, um, you know, for instance the assassination. attempt which killed 80 people on lebanon, which was organized by ca cia director william casey. um, he gave an interview on his death bed basically to the washington post, um, where he said that the that he arranged for saudi funding for the covert operation using lepanese militias to do the dirty work, okay,

but of course it wasn't the americans for for decades, it wasn't the americans, this is the... us um motus operandi, mean even you know the americans talk about his being the biggest terrorist organization blaming hisb for the bombing of the marine barracks in lebanon in 1982 and then the us embassy bombing in 1983, the us secretary of defense the time of the bombings casper weinberger told pbs almost two decades later in 2001, quote, we still do not have the actual knowledge of good. bombing of the marine barracks, the beirot airport, and we certainly didn't that, so it's all part of propaganda to lay the ground for justifying what they do, and it's it's a... lie, it's a big fat lie, just keep this in mind as events develop, so going into what comes next, then this is an emotional time, and everyone needs an emotional response, but you have to

remember if if niin asan just said that we are going to continue has plans, we all want to see hell rain down on uh, you know the israelis right, but the thing is we have to remember what the goal of this war is, which is to thort israel goals and which is to make sure the settlers don't go back to the north that comes before, and just to be clear, you know, the revenge for the assassination of this larger than life man, hassan is the end of israel and no less, so don't expect to see a contained response or a specific operation that is the official response to the assassination of the man that is hasan nasal, which is not just the military strategist, not just a political commentator, a spiritual leader and father figure and and and source of security and safety for. the whole region actually and not just this country, so that's you know, we are going to feel a lot of people feel very defeated right now, others are trying to keep the world high because the reality does not change, and i still say

israel and the us will fail at this new middle east project, no matter how big these blows are, so whatever is coming, if it's not to the people's desire doesn't mean that it's not to our benefit, so just to go back quickly to what we're discussing, which is what's next right in this uh in this war in the terms of the racist. says axis i believe following the assassination of hasan nazrada we already started to see a bit of the response first of all from lebanon that over the weekend launch as it has been doing over the past months uh heavy rocket barrages towards the north of israel one of which a reportedly caused a security incident a serious security incident among military leaders in israel we don't have the information because israel it's very good at censoring what goes out we also had a yemen launcher but missile that they say was aimed at the bengurion airport as netanyahu was going back from the un, it was shut down, overnight there was also a lebanese ballistic

missile fire towards israel that was also shut down, you have the islamic resistance in iraq that has also been intensifying his attacks against thisron, hitting the port of hyfat, hitting certain settlements, but also apparently heating the konoko. oil field, the us occupation base and oil field in northeast syria, so this is kind of uh, not more than what we've seen so far for the past year, but also it's obviously that it's um, they're coming together, these are the support fronts, they will do what they can, and they are all paying the price for standing with gaza, and lebanon is under attack with hundreds dead and 1 million displaced and people having lost their homes and people under severe. psychological pressure and severe psychological warfare, all of this is the price at the moment for standing with gaza, just like yemons the port was bombed, this is the price. israel has not defeated

hamas, israel has not recovered all the mis captives, israel has not regained the terrance, mean yes gaza is flat and i feel like i say this every week, we have to like gaza is flat and the civilian population is in under extreme dress, this is not a military achievement right to? against cibilians, to cause terror, to kill children, to you starve the entire population of of of the strip, it's not a military achievement. israel over the past year has managed to do all of this in gaza with complete impunity, okay, some countries are cut relations, the international court of justice, international criminal court, blah blah blah, all of these things, people walk out of speech, it has meaning up to point, you know, like it has a significance. but it it doesn't change anything either, so israel just has been doing it with full impunity, now they are coming with the very same strategy at lebanon right, a un member state, a country that is

online with the united states, just dropping bombs, just causing terror, kinging leaders right, hasant a fixture of lebanese society for the past 30 years, love him or hating, even the people that that never that i have known that never night asramam even they... said this is not how we should have ended the frame, this was not right, because it's neutral you, you cannot just go and bomb a residential neighborhood and attempt to kill one person, but that's the israeli strategy right, what they call the hundred to long, we can kill up to 100 civilians if it means we we kill one commander in this case, we still don't even know how many civilians they killed in that attack - the goal here in lebanon as we're saying is to return the the setters to the north and well that's what they claim, but they actually want to... disable hezballah and now in the media they say oh they only have 10% firing capability left and we know that's not true, they are committing massacres in the in the bakar in the in hermel in in the south in in beirot,

so no, and you know, just like i said, you can't separate leban, lebanon from gaza, you can't separate lebanon from hazmall, they are trying to disentangle lebanon from hezball, oh we're not, we're not in a war against lebanese people, we're just in a war against lebanon, hezballah is integral part of lebanon and is found all across lebanon, you cannot disentangle them, and no they are not a terrorist organization, so this is a war on lebanon, no the terrorist, the terrorists are the ones that are like blowing up you communicate. devices and people spoke is no matter if they're in a car, no matter in a place, no matter with their children, that's terrorism, and and what we have seen over the past year is that uh, there's only very few who would stand up against the actual terrorism, against the actual genociders, guess you know the mass murderers and it is hezbollah and it is hamas and it is on saraalah and it is the iraki resistance and it is you know iran to a maybe not an inactive role but obviously not support role

right because of factions, they wouldn't be what they, they would have happy communities that they have if it wasn't for the islamic republic, but the world was a work like that right, everyone everyone is a terrorist, you even the crad was accused of of supporting terrorism just to silence us, why? because we stood on the we stand on the side of gaza, we stand on the side of lebanon, we stand on the side of truth, well hasan nasal stood up not only to israelian us terrorism but to the agenda they want to impose on the region, and you this um like you said "a lot of people said this isn't how it should have ended for him and lot of people feel like he was stolen from us too soon, but the fact is there's a very spiritual dimension to all of this and you cannot understand without understanding that, but the fact is it is an honor to be murdered in support of gaza and being one of the only ones who refused to stand down, and that is really you know one day people aren't capable of seeing it from that perspective will see it, it is an honor, okay, because

that is the whole..." path for the colonizing mind is impossible to understand right, they think they can just come kill the leader and then the movements going to crumble, it's not because it's an idea, is is is part of your life, let's not forget that the escalation, despite you know what you always see in western media when they talk about the escalation now, you know if iran retaliates is there is because they're escalating, if lebanon retaliat is because they're escalating, but when israel comes and bombs you the capital of of another country of a neighboring country and kills hundreds of people, that's not escalation, that's self-defense, this is what... but uh we've been thought and this is where we will end it for this week, thank you so much for joining us,

firstly i want to tell the journalists who... want to report from the frontlines that they shouldn't go there in search of fame, instead they should bear a message and have a cost to defend. the media warfare is essential because the camera has become a weapon aiking to the rifle and the missile used by the resistance fighters. media is double edge sword and we should wield it carefully, indeed, rifles and cameras have become complementary weapons, we can't separate them. our message is to support the truth against the falsehood.

ristvy headlines: hezbullah's rocket barrages strike israel's bases and settlements including major military intelligence base iran's primer minister once again warns of a harshcial response of the israel regime carries out any future attack on the islamic republic. and a new report says the us has spent nearly $8 billion on military aid to israel since the regime's genocide started in gaza.