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00:00:00when an army needs months of preparation and overwhelming firep to claim
00:00:04a tactical objective, the question is no longer simply whether a hill has
00:00:07fallen. the question is, what that tells us about the
00:00:11resilience of those defending it? zyinus Israel may
00:00:14of declare operation
00:00:16of in control, netan yaho may present it as another achievement, but these declarations
00:00:19also serve a political purpose, particularly for a government under enormous
00:00:23domestic pressure to demonstrate military
00:00:26of success, and there is a larger danger here: is not
00:00:30an isolated hill, it can become part of a wider network
00:00:33of of Israeli entity positions designed
00:00:35of to create security belt inside Lebanon, a
00:00:40of of
00:00:41a of reality that could transform temporary military positions into a permanent security architecture, yet
00:00:45history
00:00:46of
00:00:46of warns against confusion, because occupation with victory is a
00:00:49confusion. in 1982, zinus Israel reached Beirout itself, Lebanon
00:00:53nevertheless demonstrated that even the most powerful occupying army cannot
00:00:57permanently dictate the destiny of another people. and today's
00:01:01regional battlefield tells another story: resistance in Palestine has survived an
00:01:05extraordinary Israeli entity genocidal campaign in Gaza.
00:01:09Resistance in Yemen continues to exert pressure against the enemy despite
00:01:13immense military pressure
00:01:14of against their own people. And resistance in Lebanon presented by
00:01:18Hisbollah's tactical
00:01:19of contraction in
00:01:20of Lebanon does not really automatically translate into the collapse
00:01:23of the wider resistance paradigm. The central lesson is
00:01:26simple: military power can sease to rain but it cannot.
00:01:30manufacture legitimacy. Ali Tahir may be height a map, but for
00:01:34Lebanon it has become a
00:01:35in question of of dignity, sovereignty and the refusal to accept occupation as a
00:01:39permanent reality. The heights can be bombed, the
00:01:42ground can be contested, but the will
00:01:45of the people that refuses to bow cannot be measured by the
00:01:48of number of bombs dropped upon it. China people, it's not
00:01:51over until we, the natives of this land say it is,
00:01:55and we say, never will an occupier be safe in our
00:01:59land, never. will an occupier remain in
00:02:11more than five months, Ali Tahir has been at the center of
00:02:14intense and costly
00:02:16of confrontation with Zinus Israel launching 19 major attacks in an
00:02:20effort to impose
00:02:21of control over a strategically important height and its underground
00:02:25network. But if overwhelming firepower and prolonged operations
00:02:29have not produced. contested control, what does that tell us about the
00:02:32resilience
00:02:33of the defenders and what could come next on the military
00:02:37map of southern Lebanon? to
00:02:47general, now starting with uh what is happening at the moment in
00:02:51in Ali Tahir, Zionist Israel has announced complete control
00:02:54of the heights after five months of operations, 19 major
00:02:58offensives, yet are indicating that Israeli occupation
00:03:02of troops have relied heavily on bombardment, they have relied on bunker buster
00:03:06munitions, engineering units, robotic
00:03:09of systems, they even conducted also a
00:03:11straightforward bombing with cluster bombs, but
00:03:15never an actual military
00:03:17of presence by soldiers, they didn't allow the soldiers to get there, from purely
00:03:21in military perspective, from your experience, brigadier general, what does the
00:03:25length, the intensity and the method of this operation tell us
00:03:29about the tactical difficulties that zinis Israel actually faced
00:03:33and encountered at Ali Tahir, and should the announcement of operational
00:03:37control be understood as genuine battlefield
00:03:39of breakthrough, or is it just a more limited tactical possibly
00:03:43achievement by the Israeli occupation
00:03:58announcement of control over the... Hill, particularly its
00:04:02use
00:04:02of the term operational control, is significant in terms of military
00:04:06of terminology. In military doctrine, operational control generally implies that a
00:04:10military sector or force has
00:04:12of been placed under the authority of a particular command structure and is able to
00:04:15operate freely within a defined geographical area. In practical
00:04:19terms, it
00:04:20of means being able to manage and conduct military operations within that area after
00:04:24a a neutralizing what is perceived as the primary threat. However, the
00:04:28Israeli occupation army did not. say that it had physically occupied the hill or
00:04:32established full tangible control over it. there is an important distinction
00:04:36between operational control and actual physical control on the
00:04:39ground. but the Israeli enemy has carried out appears to have unfolded
00:04:43of across three military levels: the first was extensive fire preparation and
00:04:47bombardment. ali thahir was subjected to repeated attacks from drones
00:04:50and intermittent bombardment over the proceeding six months. during the last three
00:04:54months in particular, these attacks intensified considerably, involving
00:04:58heavy missiles with substantial destructive capacity. The second aspect
00:05:02involved attempts to locate and target suspected entrances to underground
00:05:05facilities. The Israeli enemy commanders believe that they have prior knowledge
00:05:09of the area because they were present on this hill before the year 2000. and are familiar
00:05:13with its geographical layout, their particular focus was on openings
00:05:16connected to the wooden areas of Alid and the route linking them to
00:05:20the Al-Dupsha Hill. From their perspective, this route could
00:05:24potentially serve as passage for entry and exit, the rotation of
00:05:27personel or logistical support for the underground tunnels, assuming
00:05:31such tunnels exist in the area. Therefore, their approach was
00:05:35to destroy these suspected entrances. They detonated number them and
00:05:39deployed robotic systems to enter or investigate certain opening. and establish
00:05:43contact with whoever whatever might be present inside these underground
00:05:47facilities, however they were repeatedly surprised to discover that
00:05:50several the entrances were merely decoys and did not lead to actual
00:05:54underground positions. in response, the resistance also employed drones
00:05:58against some these operations targeting enemy activity in the
00:06:01area.
00:06:07i wanted to ask about this because what is perhaps most striking is simply not
00:06:11actually attack. king Ali Tahir, but how it's defenders
00:06:15endured, repeated and massive massive assaults
00:06:19over such an extended period of time, we're talking about a period of time that
00:06:23extends to seven or eight months, given the enormous disparity the
00:06:27Israeli enemy firepower, intelligence and the technology capabilities,
00:06:31how do you explain the ability of resistance fighters (precate
00:06:34general) to withstand 19
00:06:38enormous attacks within a very short period of time, because these attacks happened
00:06:42in the...
00:07:12looking and commanding the surrounding terrain, including the adjacent
00:07:15elevations. For this reason, the Israeli enemy army resorted to
00:07:19intermittent and indirect methods of fighting. It knew that a direct battle
00:07:23would likely turn into close quarters combat, and that under such
00:07:26circumstances it might not be able to achieve its objectives. What
00:07:30hazbullah or the resistance has demonstrated through its methods and combat tactics
00:07:33inside Ali Tahir, points to the capabilities of its fighters.
00:07:37These capabilities are not limited merely to holding their ground and enduring the
00:07:41attack, rather. the resistance appears to have moved beyond the phase of simple
00:07:45resilience into a phase of actively confronting and countering every tactic
00:07:49employed by the Israeli enemy. for example, rather than launching a direct
00:07:52assault, the Israeli enemy turned to technology and artificial
00:07:56intelligence, using them to survey and probe suspected entrances and
00:07:59openings across the hill an attempt to gain access to what they insist on
00:08:03describing as tactical installation rather than a strategic
00:08:06one. yet the resistance was able to adapt to and circumvent these measures.
00:08:10it was able to maneuver around the... advancing forces in the wooded areas
00:08:14surrounding, infiltrating their vicinity or operating
00:08:18under the cover of fire and bombardment. It then deployed drones against the
00:08:21advancing forces, targeting tanks and forward units. These units
00:08:25included armored and robotic formations as well as manned forces
00:08:29operating at the front the Israeli occupation army's 36th division.
00:08:33Reports indicate that an officer, deputy battalion commander and
00:08:37several other personnel were killed or hit during these operations.
00:08:40It is also believed that to this... day there may still be Israeli entity
00:08:44military personnel unaccounted for in the vicinity of Alir.
00:08:48This in itself, is an indication of what took place there.
00:08:52The Israeli Entity Army's announcement of operational control does not necessarily
00:08:56mean that it achieved complete physical control over Ali. The
00:08:59resistance's ability to hold its ground and actively engage Israeli occupation
00:09:03forces appears to have prevented such a declaration of full and tangible
00:09:07control and a resistance movement. Despite what it
00:09:10endured in 2024, Resistance has regrouped, and drawing on the
00:09:14developments that followed the war on Iran in 2026, has begune redefining
00:09:18both its political role and its role as a resistance and military
00:09:22force.
00:09:23Ali Tahir has become one the starting points for that redefinition. It reflects a
00:09:27shift in the resistances military posture. Rather than remaining fixed to a
00:09:31single geographical line south the Liutani, it has demonstrated
00:09:34ability to move from the first line of defense to second defensive line,
00:09:38with Ali Tahir emerging as one of its key points of operation in defense.
00:09:43well uh the major question is what happens next uh
00:09:47because we've seen how zinus Israel have completely demolished
00:09:51uh devastated gaza, how uh bombs are falling
00:09:55again on Yemen, so if Zinos Israel attempts to consolidate these
00:09:59positions in south Lebanon, establish some sort of a connected security
00:10:02belt if you will with the larger occupied territories inside or
00:10:06use them maybe as leverage in the negotiations with the officials in
00:10:10Lebanon, what are the most likely
00:10:25appears to be seeking, is centered a fundamental objective. It does not
00:10:28intend merely to focus on controlling geographical territory for its own
00:10:32sake. Rather, it seeks to use that geographical space to
00:10:36reshape the military reality on the ground and the broader security
00:10:40environment a way that according to its strategic calculations, could
00:10:43ultimately influence Lebanon's political reality. Zianist Israel believes that
00:10:47there are political forces and points of leverage within Lebanon on which it can
00:10:51rely. Yet, from its perspective, these internal political...
00:10:55factors have so far failed to alter Lebanon's political balance in favor the
00:10:58American Israeli entity camp. This is why the political and negotiating
00:11:02avenues that had hoped for, have not produced the desired outcome.
00:11:06As result, it is now increasing pressure and an effort to create a more hostile
00:11:10internal environment in Lebanon, one directed against the resistance and aimed at
00:11:13pushing forward the issue of disarming it. This is the broader context in which the
00:11:17potential scenarios ahead should be understood. In my assessment, there are
00:11:21two possible scenarios for southern Lebanon. The first is that these... enemy
00:11:25continues along the path that has already begun following its declaration of operational
00:11:29control over Ali. It may attempt as much as possible to
00:11:33establish operational control over additional areas through intelligence dominance,
00:11:37ariel fire control, the extensive use of technology and sustained
00:11:41pressure on the strategically commanding hilltops and geographical axes the
00:11:44region. One possible, and in my view, plausible scenario
00:11:48is an expansion towards the strategic highlands around and
00:11:52rihan. This area includes a network of commanding. elevations in strategic
00:11:56terrain, including jabal safi, jabal sujud,
00:11:59rihan, jabal rafiah, and other
00:12:03dominant hilltops that form part of a wider geographical spine.
00:12:07These elevations are connected to another network of strategically commanding
00:12:10terrain, extending through areas including south the litani
00:12:13region, Zautar, Arnon and Ali
00:12:17Tahir. From Zionist Israel's perspective, controlling or dominating this
00:12:21geographical access could create a strategic corridor linking these areas.
00:12:29This remains one possible scenario, it cannot be stated with certainty that
00:12:33it will happen, but
00:12:35it is a plausible and potential trajectory. The second scenario concerns what
00:12:38zionist Israel is already doing through its bombardment the Nabati
00:12:42region and the areas behind Alir, areas that serve
00:12:46as part the geographical and logistical depth, supporting the
00:12:50front. Combined with developments on the political level, Zionist
00:12:53Israel has spoken about. its security reach deeper towards what is being
00:12:57described as a gray zone extending between the yellow line and the blue line. the
00:13:01apparent objective
00:13:02in this scenario would
00:13:03be to establish effective control through fire power over this entire area
00:13:07to maintain constant military pressure,
00:13:10dominate the region from distance and thereby deny the
00:13:13resistance Israel views as its second line of defense.
00:13:17in other words, the effort to take control of strategically commanding
00:13:21hilltops and maintain sustained pressure on the surrounding areas is... simply
00:13:25a military objective, it is also intended to produce political
00:13:29consequences by reshaping the military and security reality on the
00:13:33ground, Israel would seek to increase political pressure inside
00:13:36Lebanon and create conditions in which the Lebanese army could be compelled by the
00:13:40political authorities implement decision aimed at disarming the
00:14:01time stay
00:14:01your with and us because next we're going to talk about how Ali Tahir is
00:14:05victory or a
00:14:06mirage.
00:14:39Zinius Israel is rushing to package Ali Tahir as
00:14:42decisive victory, even
00:14:44as questions remain over the extent of its actual control on the
00:14:47ground, and that raises crucial question about whether this is
00:14:51a military breakthrough or a political narrative. factured under
00:14:55pressure, but beyond the battlefield lies equally consequential
00:14:59struggle inside Lebanon, where the Lebanese government's official approach to
00:15:03Israeli enemy demands is increasingly being challenged by the
00:15:07people who argue that Lebanon cannot surrender its sovereign
00:15:10right to confront and end occupation. More
00:15:14details in the following
00:15:15report.
00:15:19Ali Tahir is being presented by Zinius Israel as a battlefield
00:15:23achievement, but beneath the... Manfit headlines lies in much
00:15:27more complicated military and political reality. For more than five months,
00:15:30sinus Israel has spored enormous firepower, intelligence
00:15:34resources, engineering capabilities and... repeated assaults
00:15:38into securing this strategically important height.
00:15:4219 major attacks, sustained bombardment and bunger
00:15:45busting munitions have still not produced the kind of swift and
00:15:49uncontested ground operation normally associated with
00:15:52decisive military breakthrough, and this is where the strategic
00:15:56principle attributed to former Israeli entity chief of staff
00:16:00yigalyadin becomes relevant. the speed with which an
00:16:03object is captured should correspond to its importance and
00:16:07impact on the final outcome, if a strategically important height
00:16:11requires months of operations and extraordinary
00:16:14firepower, the timeline itself becomes part the
00:16:18military story. the Israeli entity announcement also comes intense
00:16:22political pressure on menjamin Netanyahu's government, making every
00:16:26claimed military achievement politically valuable. the battlefield is
00:16:30therefore being fought not only with weapons, but also with
00:16:33narratives. israeli occupation forces have reportedly relied heavily
00:16:37on stand-up firepower and specialized engineering and
00:16:41robotic systems to confront the underground network rather than
00:16:45exposing large numbers of soldiers to direct
00:16:48combat. reports have also confirmed the use of white
00:16:52phosphorus and cluster munitions, which speaks volume
00:16:56about the intensity the zionist offensive. yet
00:17:00holding a position is one thing, turning it into a sustainable
00:17:04military foothold inside southern Lebanon is another.
00:17:08Zionist Israel would have to protect its troops, maintain supply
00:17:11lines, with stand pressure across multiple fronts, and
00:17:15confront the political and environmental complications of a prolonged
00:17:19deployment, and Lebanon faces another battlefield, the
00:17:23political one, a moment when Israeli enemy demands increasingly
00:17:27seek to redefine the security arrangements of southern Lebanon,
00:17:31parts of Lebanon's political establishment are effectively
00:17:34advancing positions that serve Israeli and enemy demands
00:17:38at the expense of Lebanese sovereignty and the interests of
00:17:42its own people. As such, the Lebanese resistance is
00:17:46being forced to confront pressure from outside and from
00:17:50within simultaneously. Ali Tahir therefore is not
00:17:53simply about who controls a hill. It is a test of whether
00:17:57overwhelming military power can be converted into lasting
00:18:01control. Zionist Israel may declare a victory, but
00:18:05the battlefield and history. still has the final
00:18:25now starting with the most important issue happening at the moment in South
00:18:28Lebanon, Netanyahu appears to uh be very
00:18:32anxious to declare victory at Ali Tahir, despite the fact that there are
00:18:36reports that say that maybe they haven't reached the entirety
00:18:39the um mountain there of what's beneath that
00:18:43mountain there uh and they haven't secured really the entire position they're still
00:18:47bombing it from the air from your political and strategic perspective
00:18:51here what is driving this rush to announce this
00:19:04there is a study ascending trend in the israeli. media in the
00:19:08Israeli politics and the Israeli military as well to
00:19:11build narrative of victory, decisive victory just like what you
00:19:15said in in your introduction about Ali Tahir, what's
00:19:19Ali Tahir? Ali Tahir is a position, a military position, my I am not a
00:19:23military person, but I know and we've been following the
00:19:26resistance in Lebanon has always had positions,
00:19:30military positions, highly fortified positions wherever in Lebanon
00:19:34in order to defend. and in order
00:19:38to liberate and in order to deter the Israeli attacks
00:19:41against Lebanon. Ali Tahir is one them, so you're talking about one
00:19:45position out of many series in different regions.
00:19:49What's so important of
00:19:53Litani, this is one thing that we have always to keep in mind,
00:19:56because the agreement and the understanding and the
00:20:00agreement that has been reached to by the Lebanese government, it
00:20:04says that Hisballah has to... hand
00:20:08the positions south of litani and not north
00:20:12of Litani to the Lebanese authorities, this is very well known,
00:20:15Hisbollah has respected highly the
00:20:19ceasefire for more than
00:20:22one year and the three months while the Israelis continued to bombard and
00:20:26kill and whatever. now they want to maximize the prophet about Ali Tahir,
00:20:30they want to show it as
00:20:31the size of victory as a humiliating defeat to the resistance,
00:20:35while it's one military position. just like any other
00:20:38military position and it's not the most important one and it's not
00:20:42that legendary thing. one important issue that
00:20:46we have to highlight as well about Ali Tahir is that...
00:20:50Since the Israelis when they started actually all this propaganda, they
00:20:54want to use it in the coming elections. Nathanyah want to
00:20:58reach peak where the say
00:21:02what he says about the defeat the resistance, about the victory
00:21:06the Israelis would like send
00:21:09a very a very decisive ballot to the casting
00:21:13boxes, here I think the
00:21:16Israelis are pinning hope.
00:21:21that will not come true hopefully, this actually aligns with something that was
00:21:25said by the former Israeli entity chief of
00:21:27staffyadin who argued at the time that speed of capturing
00:21:31any military position is related to its importance and the
00:21:35impact the final outcome from taking that, but ali thaher
00:21:39reportedly required months of operations, repeated
00:21:42very massive overwhelming fire
00:21:45power, extensive engineering capabilities, everything
00:21:49was... put into that height, how should we read that timeline? you
00:21:58talking about the Israelis using their high tech weaponry,
00:22:01their high capabilities in engineering and whatever in order to reach, and
00:22:05there had been more than 17 direct attacks against, they said that
00:22:09they have infused the kind of gases,
00:22:13toxic gases into the region, they were not able to capture it,
00:22:17they were not able to capture any... captive
00:22:21or to take any the resistance fighters, they were not
00:22:25able any way to show any any footage
00:22:29or any ceremonial activity that
00:22:32shows that they have captured it, there's some dark footage inside of a dark space that
00:22:36isn't really and they don't show it from outside to inside, he's just standing, it
00:22:40reminds us of what happened in gaza when they stood in dark places and said that this is
00:22:44what we have, this is what we have to spread this
00:22:47legendary steadfastness the...
00:22:49stance fighters there, you're talking about heroic
00:22:52actions that we can praise always and
00:22:56we can feel proud of, you're talking about
00:22:5917 attacks, as I said, you're talking about
00:23:02more than months of direct attacks by
00:23:06highly by the way, 17 attacks was registered before they
00:23:09claimed, so after that they
00:23:11attacding 19 enormous
00:23:15attacks, exactly, and now when they say that they have captured or they have making
00:23:19a... control of Ali Tahir, and they
00:23:22are still bombarding Ali Tahir, this tells you that they are building their narrative
00:23:25steadily a very assending way as to convince and to
00:23:29prepare their public about this so-called victory victory
00:23:33added to that they're still committing massacers over the weekend, they also killed multiple
00:23:37Lebanese civilians outside supposedly what's called the yellow line, we don't believe
00:23:41any lines that are drawn by the enemy, but at the same time they still
00:23:45renegging on what they already stated they wouldn't do,
00:23:48but exactly.
00:23:55internal political dimension, because a moment when zisual is seeking deep
00:23:58control the area of south Lebanon, especially if they actually take
00:24:02Alite,
00:24:03we know it's
00:24:03a military position, but it will be overlooking various
00:24:07amount of civilian residential areas
00:24:11in south lebanon abati and elsewhere, there is
00:24:14also we can hear loudly what the people are saying and how
00:24:18they are unhappy with what the officials of Lebanon, they are
00:24:21calling the government in Lebanon a puppet government controlled by the west,
00:24:25they are saying that
00:24:26they are effectively serving the demands the Israeli
00:24:30entity over their own people's right for liberation, for
00:24:34victory, for reclaiming their land. how is this position being received by
00:24:37the Lebanese public and can any Lebanese government credibly
00:24:41negotiate sovereignty and liberation while appearing to actually stand
00:24:45against the right of its own people for liberation?
00:24:49whatever the... the public say about the government, they fall short to
00:24:53describe it, to describe this kind of surrender and
00:24:56retreat from responsibilities and the unwillingness to do
00:25:00anything
00:25:07the most important issue, the resistances all over the history,
00:25:10starting by the Roman empire, whatever, when you talk about resistance, you don't talk about
00:25:14classical army that fight in order to
00:25:18prevent the enemy from taking... control of a certain geography or whatever, you're
00:25:22talking about inflicting heavy damage on the Israelies, degrading
00:25:26their moralities, steadfastness till the last point, and then it's a
00:25:30hit and run, this is this is the gorilla warfare the
00:25:33resistances, they are not army or
00:25:36classical army that, this is very important, so we have to know this is what the
00:25:40resistance has been able to
00:25:50talk about the framework agreement, the
00:25:54government that the those who are in
00:25:58authority in lebanon gave to the president and the prime minister, yeah
00:26:02they... they they gave it to the Israelis as a price and they are still
00:26:05astonished, they are, they they they not capture it, that's why they
00:26:09have to make use of it as much as they can, and they
00:26:12have to preserve it, they want to make kind of preservation, that's
00:26:16why if you see that the Israelis are not doing
00:26:20what they want to do fully and in one full scale, this is because they
00:26:24want just to give up service to those who you
00:26:28mentioned actually, so the thing is that the public in Lebanon is
00:26:32divide. but what we can say somely
00:26:36very sure that the majority the Lebanese, 60, 70% the
00:26:40Lebanese are against what the government is doing when it comes to
00:26:43South Lebanon, when it comes to negotiating with the Israelis when it comes
00:26:47to this kind of policy that they are in acting in Lebanon, so you have
00:26:51to promise me that soon enough we will sit again and tell me what will
00:26:55be done about those policies from a political perspective that is allied
00:26:59with the resistance and
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