to just submit it to them, when hazbullah is strictly determined its condition, its one condition, that is seas fire in ghazza, which basically means israel's admission to uh to their defeat in the war in ghazza, of course israel wouldn't do that, but hazbullah is determined on this one condition, that is why when israel and america approached hizbullah in in a manner that they estimated would make hazbullah surrender to their conditions faster and give and give up their own conditions, they they um used two means, two main means that they thought would make hizbullah actually surrender. the two means are to kill the leaders of hizbullah and to terrorize the hazbullah popular base with their infamous massacres and war crimes. that was very obvious in the in the in the pajor attack that aimed to kill thousands in one minute leaders of... among them and the the follow the the operations that followed like the uh walky talky attack and the assassination of of leaders one after the the other. now the question arises here, after israel is using those me, israel and america are using those tw

raining down over the heads of the israeli settlers and not hazbullah's rockets, it's important to point that out, because hizbullah up until now seems to be more if we may say disciplined when it comes to the issue of military strikes um than anyone than any any force in the world. i have not seen, maybe i've not been an observer for that long, but think any observer in the military field whether throughout the world war 1, world war 2 all the wars in the world, there has not been a single um military force or national army or even resistance groups like for example in the french resistance or the french revolutions, there were always mistakes, there were always striking, even areas that could probably re lead to the killing of civilians. hezbollah has been extremely meticulous in that regard, focusing only on military sights, and so any news from the israelies coming out to try to say, that there was a israeli settler that was hit or israeli civilian car vehicle that was struck or kiput um settlement that was struck we know now from hazballah's words that hazbullah has the ability to k

had drawn from the beginning of the confrontation, then hazbullah would launch their attacks against even settlements that were not evacuated. we saw one of the instances where hazballah targeted the baracks in one of the areas in naharaya and and safad, we saw how the settlers had run to their shelters uh in less than five to 10 minutes and so um although hazbullah has done that, they have targeted those areas, but they have not come close to these settlers or the so-called civilian settlers, they have only targeted military barracks and military sites um in those settlements and all the rockets that have actually reached perhaps uh the settlement houses or the buildings were all the inter interceptor rockets from the iron dome system or the david sling system and the... israel defenses, but the israelis have not added to that issue, as we've seen they have not addered to that in ghazza or in the west bank, targeting civilians uh is something that is a um, it goes a long way with the israelis, it's part of their history, we saw it in 2006, we saw it in 1996 how they targeted a unite

, but they are within the civilian society of hazbullah, and of course once you listen to the members of or the families of the murders, we've spoken to the the children, the wives, the mothers, the brothers and they all consider themselves as hizbullah fighters since they are defending their land in this issue and what they are doing to support the palestinian resistance, to stand by the people of ghazza they believe is a humane duty and a religious duty, and i think that we will hear that statement more and more from many of the members of the parliament of the of hazballah and the families of those who were killed today in hisballah. we do not have anything new from the lebanese ministry yet on whether we have additional injuries, we know that up until now we have eight people that were killed as a result of... this attack, we are waiting of course to get more information from the ministry of health and hisballah issue, thank you very much for that elaborate update, our correspondent mariam saleh from beirot, so back to our guest from ramala, professor sad nimara, if you could plea

already has that system of governments and that framework which would allow hazbullah as association, which is not, it's not in only in day one, it's not a new organization, this is a this is a group or a foundation that is very very strong, it has it's over 40 years old, they know they they have, they're very well organized, it's known to have a certain framework of cutter which every every commander has deputy and every area is can be really filled quickly and every uh place and position uh can directly take role even if one of them is lost uh and we understood also from him that there will be a um an election of secretary general he said he said it was based on how hazbullah works and how they uh usually um put in or choose the secretary general he is usually chosen by the jihadi uh committee uh and if that is if of course it seems that we we have not lost this jihadi ' the committee, the main um, the ruling ground, even at the time of secretary general, it was not on the secretary general on alone who was making the grand decisions, it was them in. and this also proves that the b

targeted launched long-range missiles we're waiting of course to see if there's confirmation from hazbullah on that issue specifically we do not know but we're expecting to see that hazballah can easily turn the tables or will be working towards turning the tables on the israeli objectives or israeli plan for trying to return the israeli settlers and the main question here is how can a war on lebanon return the israeli settlers and how can they realize that objective? it seems definitely farfetched and as long as there is one single rocket being fired from lebanon the israel are saying to continue with this war, but hezballah says it has lot in store still for the israeli, so what type of strategy might be working on, but it's very important to mention that in hazbullah's statements they're using new term, in the beginning it was always support for gaza, support for the palestinian people and their resistance, and then later on they added sometimes retaliation for the strike and that strike, now hazbullah has mentioned in their statements that this is in defense of lebanon. and its people,

, as you know hazbullah is very large body, they have associations that are medical associations, civil associations, charity associations, agriculture, even so in every single sector, hizbullah has these these uh in all of the sectors they have personnel who work and they use these pageers in order to make sure that their movement is safe since the israelis have been targeting uh any member of even if they are a civil member, we not we notice how we had one school teacher, we had another university professor and chemistry expert who were all targeted by the israeli drones, now the latest that we have, of course we don't have lot of details concerning the investigations, but there are a lot of speculations and contradiction on whether this was only cyber attack or whether there was any way that they were manipulated before. reaching hazbullah uh us media spoke about some sort of a swap operation that was conducted in order to bring about these uh these pagers that were brought into five months ago um and we had i'm going to come back to you really quick mirim let me just welcome daniel

the attacks on the civilians and they only used it for that purpose specifically. now we see that hazbullah is launching those rockets despite the targeting of civilians or not, they're going. to definitely transfer the confrontation, not to keep it as it had been for decades, only on the ground, which is outside of the israeli regime's home front, the confrontations, the targeting, the destruction and everything was always done on lebanon as it was with other arab states, it was always outside of the occupied the occupation regime, now we see things have really changed in. to the fact that's resistance as a resistance faction has is no longer a humble grassroots movement, it is now a force to be reckoned with, it's much more must popular and much stronger than your resistance in palestine or any other force perhaps in the region, it has the israelies know that it has the capabilities that it needs to be able to strike anywhere um and although we're hearing from the israeli still the spokesperson or the the officials is still using that same narrative or saying that hizbullah needs to use t

and that they would not hesitate to support uh hazbullah and also hamas has expressed their support for the lebanese people and condemned the israeli regime in this latest aggression against the lebanese people. at the bottom of your screen also, you can see that hamas holds the united states government fully responsible for the continual genocidal massacers that's taking place inside of gaza, we also reported earlier on more israeli aggression on the west bank, and here you're looking at the regimes attacks, the results of their attacks. on the lebanese people, so the aggression of the zionist regime continues to expand, killing civilians across the region, whether we're talking about palestinians or lebanese or syrians, we have seen throughout the last few months and especially the last year, unbelievable terrorism by the regime, and today is just one more example, looking at the results of bombardment now of lebanon, again viewers, if you just joining us, you're looking at these uh live images there coming out of uh south lebanon, um, we've been looking at similar images uh throu

hazbullah said that they used fad one, fadi2 as well as katusia rockets to target. that and the reason why they have reached them we know from the israelis at the beginning of first strike they said that they were able to intercept most of the rockets and this is why perhaps hazbillah launched a second barrage of rockets in order to make sure that at least some of those rockets or many of them have seemingly reach their target. the israelies are talking about 85 rockets at least, i think we can probably be seeing 100 because anything that comes out from the israeli media or the israeli military is something that can be multiplied perhaps - by two or three um we know that the israelies are also enforcing some sort of a blockout except for very specific uh very limited areas uh where are which are being filmed but we have for example these military sites have not been there's been they've been cordoned off they've not allowed anything to be filmed surrounding them and and it seems that there's a lot of the rockets that are interceptor rockets. that were launched by the iron dome system o

towards the settlement of shamir, now shamir has not only has not always been targeted by hazbullah, we did not see hizbillah targeting new settlements, however the number of rockets that hit uh the galili region yesterday, excuse me, was really heavy, we heard from the israeli media saying that it is was very difficult night for the israelis as a result of the the the launching of some 100% rockets um from lebanon and that is a big number, it seems that it is not only limited to retaliation, for example for sayid, it was also every time there is fall of marters, especially among the civilian population, we see h definitely launching that retaliation and that number of rockets, this time using frockets perhaps to hit areas that are more precise, we also saw from videos that hazbillah released that hazbullah. using rocket more often um and we notice how of course this is very heavy uh rocket to create perhaps more destruction and this and damages among the military posts, but hazbullah has of course so far only targeted military post and this is what we heard also were able to confirm

we know that hazbullah's attack on elited was very accurate and there was even explosions and damages to... military base in that area as well now of course on the lebanese side uh as there were paramedics attempting to remove to stop the fires there are civil of course civil workers uh attempted to stop the fires in fron and israeli drone once more came and attacked them and we know from the libanese health ministry that three have been murdered in addition to two others injured and so i think we'll be expecting another retaliation from hazbullah in addition to the el operation we had earlier also very significant operation towards the military the headquarters excuse me of the intelligence in the area of misar which is of course very important base for the israelis in that area and that was through catusha rockets has launch ketusia rockets towards that base inmishar specifically saying that there were also areas where there were soldiers and officers and this is in addition to the other operations like rahib, misca farm where they destroyed devices, they also targeted the shabar fa

what seemed to be a preliminary defense of lebanon, but when it comes to specific operations that hazbullah will be targeting, this is another issue that we probably will be watching and observing in the upcoming days or weeks. marza, okay, all right, thank you, that's mariam sal's correspondent there in lebanon and beirot, of course, it's been a very busy day for her in. lebonon today just to bring everyone up to date, you can see at the bottom of your screen, the latest figures said that we have at least 274 lebanese civilians been killed including 21 children, 21 children, 39 women who've been murdered today, and unfortunately we expect the figure to increase, as mariam had told us earlier about the situation. with the hospitals and that there are a lot of wounded in the hospitals, you have heard about the israeli regime attacking ambulances, paramedics, hospital, seeing a similar version of course of what we have been watching for almost a year coming out of gaza, at least the reports we had, i think at least 4ous home. had been attacked by the iof today, homes of people inside of leban

well we have been on the ground on the... battlefield from day one of the al flood operation and hazbullah stance of support, of course this is path that goes a long way, it's not, it did not just start on the 8th of october 2023, this is very long path, and hazbullah secretary general was the main throne of the crown of this, and as they mentioned the statement of hazballah, he was the jewel of the hazbillah of the resistance leaders at. today we recall his words as we are heartbroken and we seem to be incapable of perhaps going on with our lives, but this we when we recall his words, for example, after the marterdom of former secretary general sayid abbas musawi, he said that if we are were all killed, if we all were marders and all of our houses were destroyed over our heads, we will continue on this path, we will continue on the path of resistance, will not stop and another also other speeches and words that were very paramount and significant, especially after the martterdom of prominent leaders like uh top military commander and head of al-quds and qasim sulaymani and then later on a

once again, as i said today, we we saw that hazbullah targeted musad in tel aviv. tel aviv looked like a ghost town, and as of the start of this. program we had gotten information about the iraqi resistance and hitting a lot and uh even the regimes admitting at least two people were injured bause we know they usually deny um having any type of casualties, your thoughts about that? yes the irakis sent to drones uh which is the zinted said one of them slept the net and exploded and the other one they anticipated the resistance in lebanon. today's central command showed how calm and sophisticated it is, which the as ali was loaded there, they wanted to claim after the bajor terror attack which is directed at the civilians of lebanon, they want to say it's hit some of the central command of lebanon, but it wasn't, they showed today how they when they unleashed the the sophisticated 'qadr won this ballistic missiles and attack the musa, this repeat the the same story when in 25th of august uh they attacked the uh galilot, which is just one mile out of tel aviv as well,

this was footage which was apparently released by hazbullah. itself, so you have a clear um intent on the part of hazballah to showcase its military capabilities, and hence this further, i think tarnishes the credibility and makes netanyahu or pushes netanyahu into a very difficult position uh, because when netanyahu speaks about weakening hazballah etc. or dealing strong blows to hazballah, and you see that footage like we saw with those missiles being launched, that doesn't that doesn't... make netanyahu appear in a very good light, in fact it makes him appear weak, so you have this, i think psychological perspective with the with hazballah deliberately showcasing these capabilities and releasing uh footage of it. regarding your question about a possible ground invasion, i think that's a bit farfetched for the time being, i don't think that israel would go ahead and launch such an operation, i don't see that happening in the foreseeable future, for the simple fact that it's going to be just too costly and israel has some very... has some very bitter memories regarding military infil

could also use uh the hospitals as a pretext to uh target them and say that there is presence of hazbullah members and and so on and target the hospital so the lebanese ministry of health has taken a decision to evacuate all the hospitals in the southern suburbs of beirot which would cause of course lot of uh pressure on the other hospitals, but he called on the other hospitals that are in areas which are not affected by the israeli aggression uh to delay all those the light cases perhaps that can be delayed to later and to be ready to accept all the cases that are in those hospitals and so this is additional humanitarian crisis that lebanon will be living through as a result of the israeli aggressions and crimes against lebanon and it would be very difficult to be able to mention all the shelling that occurred today and the... possible number of murders because of the number that they have, we have for example more than 20, we have dozens of shelling in the beqa, in the north, in casewan, in south lebanon, in all the areas, all the towns and villages seemingly a daily basis pounded uh by

well, the lebanese resistance movement, hazbullah, has entered new phase in its retaliation against the israeli regime. that's according to the hazbullah deputy secretary general sheikh naim qassem. uh, the israeli regime committed terrorism against thousands of hezbollah members and ordinary citizens in lebanon, last week, and now hazbullah has answered with the blast hitting many barracks and other areas, including inside of the city of haifa. well, stay with us as we take a look at the latest situation between the resistance movement hezbullah and the zionist regime. i'd like to welcome. my guess to the program out of radan rizg, political analysts and out of belfast, author, commentator and west asia expert, saib shaf, welcome both of you to the program, i'd like to start off in beirot, mean your thoughtswan when the hez. deputy chief says that the war or the uh retaliation has entered new phase, what do you think this means? well, i rather call it a return of ahead or operation, because now we we know that we all know and we understand that we are in a state of war, either we admit

hazbullah has also considered and declared that they believe it is the mosad that has rick those pagers and the walkie talkies, or at least it was, it is issue of the batteries that were rigged and in some way or the other were put within that batch of pages that came into lebanon that were used, perhaps maybe by than other people, this is why we saw that, there was a lot of people within the hospitals and other medical sectors that are not within the associations of hazballah directly got rid of their their pager. and their walkie talkies in that fear of the fact that these can also uh detonate any moment. the israelies were talking about the fact that they launched they hit some 250 strikes yesterday uh of course they believe that or they are saying that it is either it was hazballah target or area where hizbillah is launching their rockets of course with the number the high number of civilians that we have this is evidently not it is not accurate, we also know yesterday that the israelis went cross several red lines, as we know the israelies launch in area on the area of kissarwan an

out the iof wounded, but we are let you know in the latest information that we have, and of course hazbullahaifa and also hitting gatherings of israeli forces in bet asada, yefter kabuts, zor bases and other places, so we're... trying to keep up on the latest right now, i'd like to cross over to rimala, the professor of political science beers at university, welcome sat to the program, thanks so much for being with us, i let me start off with the west bank itself, and the deteriorating situation, because as the the genocide continues and as the aggression continues and the murders continue in lebanon, i also don't want to lose sight on the con continue oppression that's happening in the west bank, we have seen since october thousands of palestinians who have been uh kidnapped and captured, and of course, unbelievable, the amount of people who have been killed, i liked you to talk about that side of things side and the overall situation of feel in the west bank, good evening to you, mr. hashimi and all your viewers. well, in fact, yes, what's going on in the west bank is really, you know, hor

the israeli regime is after killing, indiscriminately, bombing and killing civilians who supports hazbullah, civilians civilians who supports any faction as matter of fact that is anti the israel regime anti-occupation, anti-colonization, so there you have it, that was my memory from 2006, the memory is being relived right now and in far worse ways than then, and i think the israeli regime will not stop continuing its um genocide in lebanon, and if the world really wants to see an end to this chaos, the united states will have to stop funding the israeli regime, it will have to stop uh arming the israeli regime with more... weapons and military capabilities, say goodbye to uh mohammed uh from beirot, thank you mohammed obaid, political commentator for your thoughts on this uh sad day, looking forward to the future, however and writer and political analyst from beirout, ellie risk joins us now, ellie risk, welcome uh so here we are uh sad day indeed for the loss of such a big tall figure uh that really made an impact um just because of who he was, not because he was a leader of the resistanc

the towns, but this morning we have direct challing towardskila, itarun, jabal as well as yarun, hazbullah also declared in one of the statements that this morning they targeted the mutili settlement where there was localization of soldiers in a certain area, they said they used guided missiles to target those soldiers, but yesterday, like i said, there was a heavy night and even throughout the day has launched several operations all within the same framework of support front for the palestinian resistance and in in retaliation for the aggressions on south lebanon has focused lot in there and several attacks on the mitule settlement where they targeted soldiers as well as buildings and houses used by soldiers, we know from the israeli media that at least 50 um residents in that area were almost damaged or or completely destroyed as a result of hazballah's rockets um we know that the hazbullah used fall up rockets which also caused a lot of fires in mutali as well. hisbullah also used a lot of drones yesterday, but kutusha rockets were definitely pounding many of the barracks that the israe

the main method that the israelis were able to target and assassinate hazbolah members, why did hazbullah use the word assassination? we're using word assassination, uh, if a soldier is killed in the frontlines or he is killed while he is fighting uh or on the confrontation zone or in the area of confrontation, that changes the matter, he is killed while doing his job as a soldier, as fighter, but we had perhaps hundreds of hazbullah members who were not killed in the confrontation zone, that proves that the israelis have not been able to be superior in the intelligence to be able to know the whereabouts of the hazballah fighters, since hazballah up until now have played it smart, however there are those members that still use those pages and perhaps some of them are not using their cell phones, we're not or actually were not using their cell phones, but still they were detected, and it it was also another... speculation whether the israelis, in the last uh week or so we noticed how there were two, at least two or three examples of how they targeted vehicles and motorbike, and they were c

secretary general sheikh naim qasim, the israeli regime committed terrorism against thousands of hazbullah members and ordinary citizens in lebanon last week, and now hazbullah has answered with the blast hitting many barracks and other areas, including inside of the city of haifa. well, stay with us as we take a look at the latest situation between the resistance movement. bullah and the zianist regime. i'd like to welcome my guests to the program. out of bayrut radhan rizg, political analyst, and out of belfast, author, commentator and west asia expert saib shaf, welcome both of you to the program. i'd like to start it off in beirut. i mean your thoughts r one, when the hezbollah deputy chief says that the war or the retaliation has intered a new phase, what do you think this means? well, i rather call it a return of ahead or operation, because now we we know that we all know and we understand that we are in a state of war, either we admit that or not, since the 8th of october in order to support the gaza resistance, palestinian resistance in gaza, so now the lebanese resistance are invo

we also have other reports from the israeli media, we don't have statement from hazbullah, but we have another report from the israeli media from the sufat officials, the local authorities there and the israelies have said that they were able to detect that hazbullah was rounching a rocket towards a strategic site near the electricity factory in... electricity company of the sofat uh and whether that is correct and whether this is rocket that was launched from lebanon or was it from someplace else it's it's also not clear and the target was the electric main electricity um uh areas of the the israelies is also still not clear but we can see that there is focus uh lot on city of safah specifically today now hazbillah also mentioned that they targeted the base ilania base also with a salvo of fadi one rocket and those were of course the after midnight operations but yesterday there were at least operations towards more than one military base and more than one area whichball considered to be very strategic, of course we are following up uh on all of the details that are happening, we're w

rockets um we know that the hazbullah used fall up rockets which also caused lot of fires in mutalli as well hazbullah also used a lot of drones yesterday but kitusha rockets were definitely pounding many of the barracks that the israelies use and here we're talking about the significant baracks and even recent baracks, like in admit, in yara, as well as metat, shamera and mitat, where hazballah said they were able to strike direct hits. reports from syria say the israeli regime has carried out a drone strike in the capital damascus, killing at least one person and severely injuring another. the attack targeted vehicle on road leading to damascus international airport. there have been no further details. the strike, israel frequently conducts air strikes on syria prompting damascus to repeatedly urge the un security council to halt the attacks. syria says these acts of aggression are a clear violation of its sovereignty and territorial integrity. and that's going to do it for this hour's world news and my time today here at the studio. many thanks for watching. bardio will join us ne

is launching its attacks on areas that are perhaps not always constantly targeted by hazbullah areas reaching close to safad and so that in itself is significant basically telling the israelis and the in a message that they are not going to sit idly by as the israelis go further in their attacks in areas where there there are there's mass populations lot of those populations and for example are displaced from the border towns, they came to live in those towns in as well, we have a high number of displaced as well, the hazbullah also said they targeted alamaka and which are in the occupied lebanese shipon farms, we also know that the lebanese brigades for the for resistance against israeli occupation which is separate group from hazbollah also launch one of its operations and mainly focusing on lebanese occupied territories, every now and then they do launch an operation, this is not what we have recently, the last operation that they have launched was in the occupied chabah farms, we also know that hezbolah uh attempted to stop one of the uh the israeli uavs in the over the skies of

uh barracks uh this is in addition to another attack that targeted directly the mali golan area hazbullah there said they launched an air attack using uav and bomb laid in uav and in that you have the 810th division of haramun where they said there were soldiers and officers localized and that area and so they said they were able to strike precise hits among the israeli soldiers and officers. hisbullah also launched another attack on the artillery and precise rockets units battalions 282 um using kechusha rockets as well and so that also is an important strike. we noticed how hizbullah depending on the strike that we see or the israeli aggressions in south lebanon. they either take it a higher level or launch attacks only on the bases that are on the border, hazbillah, although they they they said they targeted the alam post and azabdin post, but this time they said they targeted a mirakava tank that was between both of these posts going from one to to another perhaps and hizballah was able to spot that markava tank and target it directly, they said that even caused uh either destruction

the world as well. and so that also makes a difference with 2006 and now the type of support that hazbullah has, and so being the backbone of the resistance front, hezbulah has a duty now, and we notice how that duty played out on the 8th of october 2023. in the past there were wars against gaza, there were many uh wars and invasions and the continuous siege and so on. hasbullah was giving assistance to ghazza, also giving assistance to the west bank, and we know that also from the support that... it hadden through lot of officials in hamas and even islamic jihad, they were doing their best to arm the resistance inside palestine, give it logistic support, training and so on so forth, that is no longer secret, um, but so with that said, hazbullah had a duty to go for a supportive ground, and now also this is at stake, but not to say that it is risky, hazbullah needs to prove now that it is not only just deterrence for the israeli attacks on lebanon and even its confidence, for some are saying the confident the fact that we need to see how the um how... honest hazbollah is with their talks an

will be launching attacks on highphone, we saw that yesterday and yesterday hazbullah deputy secretary general clearly outlay the new phase which he called the open account and the yesterday's variations he said were just a down payment for that account and there's more to come and this will also include this the separate path of resistance operations in support of the resistance in hazza and the people of hazza. thank you very much for that. myan sol there from beirots we do appreciate amor. moving on, the islamic resistance in iraq says it is carried out new operations against israely positions in the occupied palestinian territories. the umbrella group of the resistance factions. said the first operation hit several israeli military targets in the jordan valley using drones. group said most of the drones hit their targets as israely defense systems, failed to intercept many of them. for the first time since the onset of the gaza of war, sirens were sounded in the occupied city of bisan, signifying the intensity of the attack. the second operation targeted the observation base of isr

justify the genocide as they've been doing in gaza, but that won't take away the beauty of what hazbullah has done, what the resistance has done, and for those of us who are who haven't closed our eyes, we see that beauty, those who are better than the likes of me will understand it with greater depth. so so uh professor, you of course did mention something about religion and what it has, with that culture uh derived from religion, how it influences the political views of the people, particularly those in the resistance front, uh, could you please tell us about the significance of martterdom and uh what it this concept holds? well, it's interesting, you say that, one of the sky news reporters uh, because the they went from one reporter to another, they're all terrible, but one of the sky news reporters was saying that these people, meaning the resistance people, their culture is different from us, they they death is not a problem, it doesn't bother them, they move on, they they celebrate the martidom, and i was, as i was listening to him, i was saying, the israelis have just massacred hun

, it reminds me of the beginning of this latest genocide in gaza, and we saw um hazbullah building up its attacks, it started off by destroying uh various cameras that was facing, for example, lebanon are very sec various security uh fences that had been set up and little by little it increased uh the distance and the type of weapons that it was using. now what we're seeing coming out of lebanon towards the occupied territories, we're seeing more and more introduction of new weapons, new rockets, more powerful rockets um um with heavy. warheads and again, very, very strategic locations, whether it's uh where arms and arms manufacturer that we have seen that was hit a couple of times recently, or various bases, whether it's an intelligence base or military base, very strategic in their retaliatory response, let's talk about that, maria, well, "you they're still not going to unleash their best weapons, so this is going to be step-by-step, they're going to basically show as much as necessary just to prove to the israeli regime that they have what it takes to flatten out the place, you kn

as we saw this new war is focused on assassinations, they're assassinating members of hazbullah, they're assassinating the main negotiator for the palestinian ismail hani, they assassinated for once they were getting able to get hold of him even if that led to the murder them and the killing of innocent civilians and children uh they also they continued with that assassination and this is why now they would not stop anything to try to weaken hazbullah and to assassinate specific figures, but now that they have failed with this, um, still they will be getting a retaliation from hazballah, but what type of actions they might take in south lebanon is also not clear, they might launch a bigger aggression, but keeping it limited to south lebanon, this is something that we can probably see in the coming days, however, let me just mention that there was a another another statement by hazballah saying they targeted a military base in one of the main bases uh in region they targeted the uh byad blida post and that and we can see that through this the normal course of resistance operations continu

of ha well stay with us as we take a look at the latest situation between the resistance movement hazbullah and the zientist regime. i'd like to welcome my guests to the program. out of bayrut, radwan rizg, political analyst and out of belfast, author, commentator and west asia expert cyib shaf, welcome both of you to the program, i'd like to start it off in beirot, i mean your thoughtswan, when the hezbollah deputy chief says that the war or the uh retaliation has enter new phase, what do you think this means? well, i rather call it a return of ahead or operation, because now we we know that we all know and we understand that we are in a state of war, either we admit that or not, since the 8th of october in order to support the gaz resistance, senior resistance in gaza, so uh now the lebanese resistance are involved since the 8th of october and it's legit. for the lebanese to support their allies or their the their you know the the the palestinian fighters in in palestine because after all we are fighting the same enemy for the same cause and the uh we all know understand that the israelis

won't be done in one day or two as they are planning and they are saying that they want to push hazbullah to the north of the latani, that is their plan. hisbollah has said that in addition to being ready always to deter the israeli forces, they are definitely still ready to launch their rockets and we've seen that happening, but in addition to the rockets, we also see the launching of suicide drones and bomb laden drones and that has been the biggest challenge for the israelies, i think will still be able to launch rockets and drones towards specific military sites, and this is why you see lot of the israel storts hype up either leaving the areal together or going to their shelter, but the main upper hand the resistance can have will be by a ground invasion, a ground invasion will be something which is to the interest of hazballah and it might take some time to able to see that, like in 2006, it was not until after the end of the war till we saw what really happened, it was all the attempts by the israelis to enter were stopped by hazbullah groups, sometimes even the civilians were takin

has major challenge as we heard from hazbullah's secretary general said hasan musalah also, saying thatave put forth, saying that as long as the genocidal war on ghazza and the occupation of the israels in gaza and their aggressive aggressions on the west bank continue, hisbollah will continue its supportive operations as well in south lebanon. thank you very much for that, marian, we do appreciate it, maria there from, thank you. "well, as mentioned before a week before the general elections in austria, protesters have marched through the capital vienna to demand peace in ukraine, peace in palestine and lebanon. they're also calling for an end to their country's cooperation with nato. dita ranish is our correspondent from vienna who joins us now for the latest updates. dito, what do you have for us? hello, i'm i'm here in the city center of vienna behind me, as uh, there is the final rally of the demonstration, as you mentioned before, there were..." thousands of people were marching through the streets of vienana to demand peace in ukraine, in russia, in palestine and in libanon. a la

has also targeted the the majidon airport, which is also a military airport, so we can see that hazbullah has maintained that boundary for now, we can say that up until now hazballah has maintained that boundary of keeping to military strikes, since usually hazbullah's is very constructive and efficient when it comes to how they target, how they use their their rockets and despite... the fact that we can see that there are probably some rockets that are being intercepted by the defenses uh, but also hasbullah has that in mind, definitely now hisballah's attack on the on the majidun, excuse me, military airport in the west of afula, which is very close to the center and close to the west bank to the occupied west bank, hasbullah said they used fadi one and fadi two rockets to... that area, we also know that the israeli media is talking about the fact that they are attempting to stop those attacks afula, definitely were not capable and not successful in stopping all the rockets, as you know there is always a fault in the iron done system, they are incapable of stopping 100% of the rockets,

our top story leader of the hazbullah resistance movement, said han says he's asserted israel's plan to return display settlers to northern occupied territories will fail. there were three war aims which were declared, which were related to gazza. now there's a fourth goal to return the occupied settlers of northern occupied palestine to... the border region with south lebanon, that is the goal. now can you achieve this goal? you netanyahu, yesterday, he was, he seemed a bit happy. okay, you, gallant, and all of your army, government and your entity, here in lies the challenge. we accepted this challenge since october 8, and today we also accept the challenge, and to... yahu and to gallant and to the enemy's army and to the enemy entity, i say you won't be able to return the inhabitants of the north to the north, you won't be able to return the occuping userpa settlers to the settlements in the north, said that has made strategic achievements in northern occupied territories as the israel regime has resorted to criminal practices to... survive, he stressed deadly wireless device expl

course we saw that even during the day there were attacks and of course launching of rockets by uh hazbullah if we may just notice something that in many of it uh statements did not mention the type of rockets that they were using uh on many of the military sites they only said in general rockets and so this is why we are waiting to see if hezballah will be using or has used already new type of rocket uh they definitely have used longer range rockets that reach 120 kilometers as the israeli media saying they have reached that far um also hazballah local media has spoken about this but "there is no official statement from hazballah's resistance, we know that there was a uh sort of fatwa issued or call from the uh marja and the muslim, the prominent muslim cleric sayistani in iraq stressing that in light of the massacre and the humanitarian crisis and the aggression from israel against lebanon, there is required to be assistance from anyone who can provide." assistance to the lebanese people and palestinian people in order to face this arrogant barbaric um massacres taking place against the pe

concerning has statements and their resistance operations, the last statement that was issued by hazbullah was the announcement of the marderdom of ali khaki was one of the top commanders and there was a previous assassination attempt against him in one of the israel strikes in the southern suburbs of beirot in the area of the as well just before that second attack in which led to the marterdom of now we know has declared that ali karaki who was the commander of all the hizball forces in all of south lebanon especially since after the al flood operations and the resistance front support front. in south lebanon and he was someone who began of course his path of resistance and struggle with the resistance of lebanon since 1982 a very early age seemingly and declared that he was murdered along with the secretary general said hassan nasrallah in the very first massive strike in the southern suburbs of the beirot uh the other uh statements included details on casballah's operations today, which also seem to be message saying that the resistance is still launching rockets from south. going on uh

and the israelies don't back down as well and so if we do not see that then we will also see that hazbullah uh or if we do go for a trust excuse me finish that point. go for truth and hasballah goes back to its support front operations, just as so specific operations on the border uh and leaves the that buffer zone which they have enforced in the galile region, not allowing the israeli settlers to return, that in itself is huge achievement. first of all, hizballah would have not accepted and backed down to break any link with the palestinian resistance and also continued to present itself as the main defender of the palestinian. cause and the palestinian people as opposed to what we are seeing from the greater global powers with all the sophisticated assistance which they are giving to israel as the main protectors of israel and so here this is how it's playing out the massive international global forces supporting the um the occupation the only occupation perhaps in the world in this region versus a resistance movement which is not letting go of supporting the palestinian. and going all th

has already begone, or this is also the same method of dealing with matters from hazbullah that we can probably see normal operations, but then there will... will be of course the issue of the retaliation which is usually delayed uh for some other time and as we know of course there is still no direct retaliation uh for the terror attacks of the pagers and the the explosion of the pagers and the walkie talkies they only said it was a preliminary or a first retaliation there is no retaliation yet for the assassination of the top military commanders especially ibrahim aqil and now we have to other commanders also that were killed, but the most prominent was muhammad sur yesterday, and so we have lot of, if we may say there's a lot of death from hazballah to the israelis when it comes to retaliation, and there will be many rounds of retaliations, it seems. now we also know that there are a lot of fears from the israeli media and monitoring the israely media can get some help us get some insight on what they're trying to do, there's been a lot of. ological warfare from the beginning and th

know right now as the most recent development is that the walkie talkies uh used by members of the hazbullahithium batteries or other source that has led to these explosions, how these communication devices have been hacked is another important issue that needs to be discussed, we are trying to... we get hold of experts in the field to give us more details and of course our correspondent mariam salle who was in beirot on the ground uh will be with us shortly. to give us more information as we uh go forward and trying to find out more details regarding these explosions, so as you can see the streets in beirot, these streets were just packed with people uh with um mourners actually who took part in the funeral procession for four of those were killed yesterday, among them a young girl, about 10 or nine years old and an 11-year-old boy. um, many of the casualties are ordinary people, civilians, and this has made the situation even more uh tragic, let's say, in order to uh, bring israel to justice labanese, the lebanese government will definitely take its measures and of course the... internatio

example, hazballah said they targeted the settlement of with with 50 rockets as we learned, and hazbullah said in their statement that this is in response, of course they always begin their statement in support of the palestinian people in their resistance and in defense of lebanon and its people, which is new, and today they added and in response and retaliation for the barbaric targeting of civilians and all the lebanese towns, the meaning specifically the towns and the uh cities that are civilian, hazbillah targeted, like i said, kariyat, which is considered one of the bigger settlements in that area in the north in the galili pand handle, specifically, we also have the city of safad being targeted for the very first time, we've heard before several settlements within the district of safat or within that area. and and now we have for the very first time, and this is also a historic development, a significant development that we need to note, hazbillah targeted the city of safat itself, which is the heart of the city, after they had already targeted hyfa, now they targeted the safa city

speculation this is why now i believe there will be new type of procedures that will be taken by hazbullahbut there was also speculations or news that has not been verified yet that even in civilian houses where there is router wi-fi router.

it just a way for netanyahu to prove his security credentials to show that he is not weak towards hazbullah, or is this indeed part of a broader strategy in the next phase of much bigger escalation on this front? okay, so if there is escalation between hazbillah and israel, what could that mean for israel, how many wars can it fight at the same time? it's already... fighting a war in gaza, so zakar, what is your opinion? well, the war in in gaza has been a complete failure if we look at the israeli military sources, they are admitting that none of the objectives have been completed or achieved. in fact if we look at what was stated initially that they were going to uproot hamas, were going to completely remove the resistance from the ghaza strip, this objective moved into something else, moved into the degrading of the capabilities of the resistance, and even that is assumption when you look at israeli military statements, they say they have degraded the capability of hamas of islamic jihad of the various factions, and yet you see consistently ambushes, you have video footage bearing testam

truce, but then we will go back to the war, we will go back to killing and destruction, and but hazbullah is not allowed to launch its support for the resistance, and so that issue always talking about israel's right uh, then the people do not have the right to to defend themselves trying to turn the tables, actually the victim, trying to make the victim into these side that is the oppressor. of course, the people of lebanon and the resistance are very much aware of that, they are educated and knowledgeable about the us role in the the region, and that all the talk that we heard from the us up until now was only been empty promises to try to say that the... want to go for a truth and a cease fire now, the us president joe biden has said that one of his main objectives uh, just before he leaves office is to make sure that there will be a cease fire in gazza. um, he has been saying this of course throughout the past year, but nothing has happened, and everyone knows for fact that if the us wants to, it could just with one uh, with one single word, with one press of a button, stop this entir

on many occasions did not strike one single bullet uh from lebanon into the israeli posts and so hazbullah kept to their word and they were very clear on this what... what they wanted was a prisoner swap to make sure that the palestinian prisoners, the women, the children, the adolescents who were in prison, were talking about thousands of prisoners in the israeli jails, um, that they were brought back home safely, and that let the the israeli prisoners also return, but it seems that now it is clear that the israeli regime, especially the israeli regime's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has absolutely no concern for the israeli prisoners, um, that are in gassa and his main concern is just of course the continuation of this war in order to try to see how much he can buy time to win this uh what he's calling the new the new historic stance for for him of course as a an israeli leader uh and and the israelis had a choice has could have stopped its operations once they go for deal and the deal was always in the state where it was very close to being achieved even hamas. hamas met the israeli

believes they can be superior on the land, and hazbullah has also still, despite that the fact that they know that in when it comes to ground combat, they can have the upper hand, they were still advancing their capabilities, their rocket capabilities and their uav capabilities, which now seem to be very very clearly a challenge for the israeli military, as you know lot. lot of the hizballah drones and the uavs were able to strike their targets very precisely, the iron dome system could not stop them, the israeli interceptor rockets, all the defenses that they had, in addition to the warplanes that were being used by the israelis to try to stop those uavs, also failed at stopping them from reaching their target, and it was the commander who is being laid to rest today, muhammad srud who had pivotal role to play in that issue, in that... advancement uh and as we know he has trained not hundreds but perhaps thousands of uh young men to take on that role and be able to also go on with the advancement of more of the weaponry of hizballah and so now hazballah in 2024 is definitely much m

of course, i don't want it to appear that every lebanese supports hazbullah, because of course we have all kinds of perspectives uh in that country like in other countries, but they have major part of the population supporting them. well, in no country, i don't think uh, does everyone? i mean, maybe something different about gaza, was that almost it seemed that every single person in gaza, men, women, children were pro hamas and that was actually. one reason that uh the zianist media constantly stated the you know on on israeli tv they're constantly saying that you know they voted in this group, they voted in uh hamas and they support hamas and they basically therefore they all deserve to die, whatever their age, whatever they condition, pregnant women, whatever, because they all support it, and it would be extremely easy for designist regime to uh basically uh get a handful of people, get 20 people who are, uh talking against hamas, 20 people in gaza and be like, you know, these people made us so miserable, we want to get out of the situation, we denounce hamas and they couldn't even