Israeli Castle Takeover BACKFIRES As Hezbollah FPV Drones SWARM

We can move to Israel.We had this news earlier this week that there was this tense call between Netanyahu and Trump.

Joe Biden?Oh, Trump.

Yeah.I think a lot of people have a very hard time hearing a word about angry phone calls between an American president and an Israeli prime minister.nothing seems to ever change.

Even though they almost certainly, this is part of what's so pathetic about it, the reports I actually think are very credible, whether it's Barack Ravid 10 different times on Joe Biden being mad at Netanyahu when he was awake, or now Donald Trump, that's what's so pathetic about this.I think they actually are frustrated with Netanyahu and continue to make decisions in his benefit.

And Trump does flex his muscles on Netanyahu sometimes, famously, remember he made Netanyahu apologized to the Emir of Qatar when he bombed the Hamas building in Doha.Netanyahu then denied it, and then the White House produced a photo of Netanyahu reading the apology onto the phone.Remember that?Yeah, it was humiliating.Utter humiliation.

But also kind of for us, too.

So these things do happen, but then that's the end of it.Netanyahu knows, like, okay, I'm going to, like, take a little spanking here.But then he's gonna back off me and I'm gonna be able to do whatever I want.So Itamar Ben -Gavir, I guess we can put this, put B1 up on the screen here, posted, Mr. Prime Minister, you said that a strong PM tells the President of the United States yes when possible and no when necessary.This is the time to tell our friend, President Trump, no.Now is the time to do what is required and necessary to strike Hezbollah, to unleash the hands of our fighters and to restore security to the north.

You can put up B2.This is Ben Gvir.He goes and visits the settlement and says,in all honesty, the suburbs of Beirut need to be flattened.They need to be flattened.I opposed the previous ceasefire, and today I'm also saying the suburbs must be flattened.

So this is the kind of range of debate going on within Israel right now.

It's the defense minister.

The national security advisor, yeah.And Lebanon is the sticking point.In a war between Iran and the United States, where we're trying to reach a deal, the sticking point is Israel wanting to go to war with Lebanon.

Right.And you all at DropSight, Jeremy, and your whole team has been reporting on how this is factoring into the negotiations as a sticking point.So what we're seeing play out, right?here in Israel and in Lebanon is really critical to when the war may actually end, contra the claims of Secretary Rubin that it's already over.

Yeah, and we put up B3.This is also a VO.This is footage from Courtney Bonneau, a courageous reporter in southern Lebanon who's been reporting on the endless violence and ethnic cleansing going on there.

And you're at the site of a hospital, Obaida, which has been attacked several times by Israel.Talk to us about what the scene is like there.

That's right.This is the third time that there has been a strike in the vicinity of Jabal Amil Hospital.The doctors and medical workers here are describing them as proximity strikes.The hospitals here, you see the facade of the hospital has been heavily damaged.We were able to go inside the ICU as well as the critical care unit and several of the other floors.It's been significantly damaged inside.

Some of the operating rooms are not usable.Some of the treatment rooms are no longer usable.A lot of damage to the equipment.We met a mother who had an infant child in the premature care unit, prenatal birth care unit, and she actually came to the hospital after the strike.She was happy to find that her baby was alive, but a lot of damage around the place that the baby was, too close for comfort for her.You see this extensive damage all throughout this neighborhood.

This is the parking lot.

And so meanwhile, the Israeli military conquered the Beaufort Castle.This is a Crusader castle that was, we can put up this video here before, it's a Crusader castle that was very important in the 12th century.And we can talk about the last time the Israelis captured it.Immediately after capturing it, they put up a celebratory video with a bunch of IDF soldiers showing off that they took this Crusader castle.Hezbollah then watched that video, saw where the Israeli troops were, and immediately launched a drone swarm at them, and at least three IDF soldiers were fatal casualties, others injured.A tank was destroyed.

I think two ATCs were destroyed.And so, I don't know if you saw this, but the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations went to the UN and delivered what is, to me, one of the most, like, eyebrow -raising, like, I don't even know what to say.It's like, I was kind of left speechless at it.Let's roll this.

This is an example of a drone used by Hezbollah.This is what we are dealing with.Now Hezbollah are using different kinds of drones.Few of them with fiber optic.These drones weigh less than two kilograms.It flies low.

It is very difficult to detect.And by the time you hear it above your head,it's too late.It can fly undetected for tens of miles.And all of a sudden, you see it above your head.A thin cable is what makes this drone different.

It does not rely on a radio signal.It cannot be easily jammed, unfortunately.It gives the operator a live video feed and direct control until impact.This is a modern warfare, cheap, precise, deadly.

Yeah, so Emily, what you just saw there was the representative of an invading army, invading an occupying army, complaining that the people he's invading, of which they have killed 3 ,000 civilians in recent months, that they're fighting back.

And the 3 ,000, it's since the war broke out?Since the ceasefire.Right, right.Unbelievable.

And they want the UN to condemn that Hezbollah is fighting back?Yeah, of course.It's a very strange...I feel like that is, it's so divorced from reality.Meanwhile, the effort to annex this greater Israel, particularly when it comes to the West Bank, continues apace.And so let's bring in Josh Paul to talk about the legal mechanisms underway there.

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