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01:03:18.120And the missiles actually like hitting and shit like that.
01:03:20.160Now, the reason for that is because the Israelis had a law in place during the 12-day war where journalists could not show what was happening.
01:04:48.700Now, this is why y'all didn't see anything.
01:04:50.300And I was the one that was showing you guys what the fuck was going on.
01:04:52.880But, like, mainstream media did not want you guys to see this.
01:04:57.500It was crazy, dude, how Western media was fucking covering this shit, man.
01:05:00.740They succeeded in the first goal but failed in their second as Iran was still capable of reality.
01:05:06.400And not only were they able to successfully retaliate within a day, guys,
01:05:17.580the reason why that's so impressive is because they had their air defense compromised, they had their backline compromised, they had generals assassinated, they had scientists assassinated.
01:05:26.280So, the fact that Iran was able to retaliate back against Israel within, I think, 18 hours was the official response time is fucking wild.
01:05:37.160Because the Mossad did a fantastic job of synchronizing with the Israeli Air Force and the IDF to coordinate not just the backline intelligence operation but also coordinating all the airstrikes and the drone strikes.
01:05:50.840Because, guys, all of this shit was happening at the same time.
01:05:54.340So, Mossad operatives in Iran activated.
01:05:58.300They started sending drones to the air defense, blowing them up.
01:06:03.220Meanwhile, the Israeli Air Force was coming in as the air defense was being destroyed and they started dropping bombs on the nuclear sites.
01:06:14.180And as they're doing that, precision strikes are hitting the generals and the scientists at the same time.
01:06:32.880The Israelis do blitzes like this where they hit you with everything at one time.
01:06:36.520Intel activates, drones activates, Air Force activates.
01:06:39.420They all hit you at the same time in one synchronized hit.
01:06:43.200Operation Rising Line was, I ain't going to lie, it was like a fantastic cohesion between different apparatus, different military and intelligence apparatuses working as one to have one unified and coordinated attack.
01:06:59.080This is what the Israelis are good at.
01:07:00.520I will always give them credit for that.
01:07:01.680You guys know I praise their intelligence services on this channel many times.
01:07:05.140But it's because I know what they're capable of that I will never accept the fact that they've killed tens of thousands of innocent people because I know what they're capable of.
01:07:12.940I know that they have technology better than us in some regards, by the way, just so you guys know.
01:07:19.180There's many ways that their intelligence services are actually better than ours.
01:07:22.920So, that's why I'll never accept the bullshit that they be doing.
01:07:27.620Iran did not destroy most, half, or even one-third of Iran's launchers.
01:07:34.880Iran, as a massive country, had mobile launchers in secure locations all over the country.
01:07:39.740What Israel did achieve, however, was the elimination of northwestern Iran as a launch site for their ballistic missiles.
01:07:47.400You see, Israel had two key objectives for this war.
01:07:50.360Suppressed air defenses so their air force could carry out attacks and suppress launch sites to limit the scope of Iran's retaliation.
01:07:57.920They succeeded in the first goal, but failed in their second, as Iran was still capable of launching missiles.
01:08:03.740And these are some of the missiles that hit back into Israel.
01:08:07.560But because Israel had control of northwestern Iranian airspace, Iran could not risk launching missiles closer to the border.
01:08:15.560So, they needed to fire from further away in the center of the country.
01:08:19.440This meant Iran was forced to use newer missiles, which they have less of, in their waves of retaliatory attacks on Israel.
01:08:25.880Because the newer missiles have longer ranges.
01:08:28.020Israel's hope was that Iran would exhaust these missiles and then lose the ability to respond.
01:08:32.800But this didn't happen, as Iran continued to pummel Israel up until the final moment 12 days later.
01:09:35.980Immediately after Iran's first successful wave of strikes, Israel declared full censorship of any documentation of Iran's missiles, threatening to arrest anyone releasing video of the missile barrages.
01:09:48.480In this video, a German reporter shares how Israeli officials were preventing them from documenting any damage.
01:09:54.560She says they only allowed them to film if they were documenting civilian damage and not military targets.
01:10:01.360I'm a correspondent for German TV ARD covering Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza.
01:10:05.960And I want to talk a little bit about the challenges we're facing here as journalists at the moment.
01:10:10.900So, of course, there is a security concern, Iranian missile attacks.
01:10:13.780So, whenever we go out and film, we think about where the closest shelter is.
01:10:17.380Then there are restrictions, military censorship.
01:10:19.460And according to these rules, we are only allowed to film and report if civilian targets were hit, residential buildings, for example.
01:10:26.980But if military or strategic targets were hit, we are not allowed to film and report unless we get the approval of the censor.
01:10:34.700And in this video, a German reporter was interrupted mid-interview by an angry Israeli who didn't want her showing any missile damage to a sensitive location.
01:10:43.340You know, you cannot take the video of the location, right?
01:11:43.900Police would hunt down anyone filming Iran's missile attacks.
01:11:48.300Ben Gavir said, broadcasts that show exactly where the missiles land.
01:11:52.360Because Ben Gavir also admitted that he did not think that Iran had this capability when they got hit back with the missiles.
01:11:58.100They did not anticipate that they would hit him back this hard.
01:12:01.780So, besides the fact that they were militarily surprised, they didn't want reporters showing the damage.
01:12:07.640Because if they showed the damage, what would happen is the Iranian intelligence services and the people that are launching the missiles would be able to refine the attack coordinates to be more accurate.
01:12:20.700That's why they didn't want them showing it.
01:12:22.840And on the state of Israel are a danger to the security of the state.
01:12:27.320And I expect that anyone who does this will be treated as someone who harms the security of the state.
01:12:33.860Israel engaged in the censorship for three reasons.
01:12:56.320Is they didn't want mass hysteria going on in Israel or people didn't feel safe.
01:13:00.140...data on the success of their strikes.
01:13:02.600You see, Iran does not have the precision capabilities that Israel has with all of its satellites, reconnaissance, planes, drones, fighter jets,
01:13:09.700and access to American intelligence and guidance systems.
01:13:13.040If Israel wanted, they could hit a cockroach in Iran.
01:13:16.400On the other hand, Iran has to rely on its own guidance and is limited in their ability to confirm the accuracy of their strikes.
01:13:23.080Mobile phone footage could confirm for them whether or not they actually hit their targets.
01:13:26.980And Iran needs this data in order to determine whether or not they need to improve the guidance systems for their missiles.
01:13:32.360But despite the censorship, footage poured out of Israel anyway, showcasing Iran's successful strikes on a number of military targets.
01:13:39.280For example, Iran took out the Wiseman Institute, a center that supports the Israeli army with AI, drone guidance, advanced weapons, cyber defense, and nuclear tech.
01:13:48.980See, notice how you guys don't see it.
01:13:50.820None of these clips got shown on mainstream media, by the way.
01:13:57.640Um, and American media doesn't want y'all to know this for obvious reasons.
01:14:02.720The Wiseman Institute works very closely with Elbit Systems to develop bio-inspired military materials and maintains its ties with defense firms like Israel's aerospace industries.
01:14:18.700The Wiseman Institute suffered two direct hits during the war with Iran.
01:14:22.860No lives were lost, but the damage to buildings and research is estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
01:14:28.920And the Telegraph reported that at least five secret and strategic Israeli bases were targeted and destroyed by Iran's missiles.
01:14:37.620Yep, and they definitely had that, uh, had that, uh, sorry, excuse me, hid that as well.
01:14:43.420We know for a fact that a Mossad and an Oman base were hit, which, um, as you guys know, Mossad is like their CIA, but Oman is their military intelligence.
01:17:06.580And I showed a bunch of those clips when I was live.
01:17:09.380Because a lot of you guys might be new here.
01:17:10.760So, anyway, um, Israel has since restocked its interceptor missiles while Iran reportedly added advanced, untested missiles to its arsenal.
01:18:23.760This is kind of like a similar layout to, uh, to Hezbollah.
01:18:28.720The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, is a Zaydi revivalist, an Islamist political and military organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s.
01:18:36.760It is predominantly made up of Zaydis, whose namesake leadership is drawn largely from the Al-Houthi family.
01:18:42.060The group has been a central player in Yemen's civil war, drawing widespread international condemnation for its human rights abuses,
01:18:48.080including targeting civilians and using child soldiers.
01:18:50.940The movement is designed, or sorry, designated as a terrorist organization by some countries.
01:18:56.480They are widely considered part of the Iranian Axis of Resistance.
01:18:58.740And if you guys watch me, you guys already know what the Axis of Resistance is.
01:19:00.920So, but I think it's very important that you guys understand that the Houthis, like Hezbollah, are not the official military of the country, okay?
01:19:09.640This was a paramilitary organization created, right, through conflict.
01:19:49.600And Hezbollah is created in the 80s, guys, when Israel invaded Lebanon to go after the PLO, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, when Yasser Arafat and his boys were still alive, running around, okay?
01:20:00.140So, they were created in the 80s to fight them.
01:20:03.380Now, Hezbollah has fought with the Israelis more than any other group, even Hamas.
01:20:13.380They fought them, I think, in the 90s and the 80s.
01:20:16.040So, they've had many different conflicts with the Israelis, okay?
01:20:19.140And, to this day, the Israelis still bomb southern Lebanon, trying to destroy military locations that Hezbollah is under control of.
01:20:29.300Now, with the Houthis, the Houthis are similar because they are also a paramilitary group that kind of operates independent of their government, okay?
01:20:38.020And they've structured themselves this way to avoid detection, assassinations, or if a member is assassinated, they're able to still operate.
01:20:47.440They don't, they don't, like, these paramilitary organizations, chat, don't operate like typical militaries from a top-down structure that's highly organized.
01:20:56.200They kind of operate in cells to a degree where they're fairly autonomous.
01:21:00.020And the reason why they have to do it this way is because the Israelis have a damn good fucking intelligence operation.
01:21:04.980And since the Israelis have such a goddamn good intelligence operation, they need to operate in a way where if the Mossad or Israeli intelligence penetrates one component, they're not able to take down the entire operation, okay?
01:21:20.820We saw this with the Pager attack with Hezbollah.
01:21:24.140So, and Yemen's been going through a brutal civil war, guys, over the past, you know, decade or so.
01:21:29.880And they've been fighting with the Saudis and the Americans.
01:21:32.660Yemen, I think, is like the poorest country in the Middle East, right?
01:21:39.460So, when Israel launched this attack and killed these Yemeni political figures, these guys are Sunni Muslims, okay?
01:21:49.980They're Sunni Muslims who are not necessarily members of the Houthis.
01:22:22.600And I think you guys are starting to see a trend here where you have government actors like the Lebanese army and the official Yemeni government alongside, you know, insurgents slash non-state actors like Hezbollah and Ansar Allah, a.k.a. the Houthis.
01:22:38.940But Israel is painting it as, oh, this was a monumental W for us because we took out the Houthi leadership.
01:22:45.840But in reality, they took out, because Houthis also, guys, are Shiite.
01:22:50.840Sunni is the most popular, you know, version of Islam.
01:22:55.160Like, 95% of the Muslim world follows Sunni Islam.
01:22:59.080But there are some that are Shiites like Iran and, you know, Lebanon and, yeah, the Houthis.
01:23:07.400So the guys that got killed were Sunnis, regular government.
01:23:11.320But, of course, Israel wants to, you know, chalk everything up as a W for them.
01:23:15.020So I don't know if they responded yet.
01:23:19.380And we'll go ahead and cover some of this stuff.
01:23:21.940But that's a general gist of what went down.
01:23:23.600So we got the assassination of Abu Abeyda and we got the bombing and assassination of multiple Houthi leadership members, okay, which I described before the prime minister and some of his cabinet.
01:23:42.900They killed, like, a bunch of cabinet guys that, like, you know, facilitate, you know, the ministry of energy, ministry of travel.
01:23:48.500Like, they killed a bunch of these, like, political figures that aren't Houthi members.
01:23:53.600So let's go ahead and cover some of this real fast.
01:23:58.860Oh, before I do that, let me read some chats so I don't forget you guys or we don't let them pile on too, too much.
01:26:02.120Because I was like, wait, who the fuck are these niggas?
01:26:04.360Like, I don't, like, when they got killed, I was like, wait, who are these dudes?
01:26:07.500But the reason why also that you guys need to understand, let me cover this too.
01:26:14.380So you guys are probably wondering, why the fuck would they go out of their way to bomb dudes and kill dudes who aren't necessarily Houthis?
01:26:22.760Why are they wasting, like, why are they going to, you know, expend these resources to go after these guys?
01:27:23.400Now, just so you guys know, the Houthis run this area, okay?
01:27:26.500This is where they mostly operate because, like I said before, Yemen has like two different, they have an official government, then they got the unofficial government with the Houthis.
01:27:35.220Now, what the Houthis do, which has been a thorn on the side of Israel, is they board ships that come through this critical choke point, okay?
01:27:44.260And basically, any ship that has any type of affiliation to Israel, they board, they control, and they destroy that ship.
01:27:52.780Guys, we're talking about Israel losing billions of dollars in trade, okay?
01:27:57.540So, this has been extremely, not just militarily painful for the Israelis, but it's been financially and economically painful for the Israelis as well.
01:28:09.860One of their ports had to shut down because of these niggas, bro.
01:28:15.920Literally, Israel had to shut down one of their ports because of this shit.
01:28:18.300So, they've been doing this shit for a while.
01:28:21.140So, because you guys are probably wondering, well, Myron, why the fuck is Israel spending time and energy bombing and killing these government officials in Yemen if they're not aligned with the Houthis, who are the ones that are actually causing them the chaos?
01:46:43.420He could really realize his talent in all the staging that he made in the events that they designed with bringing back the hostages in a way that they really succeeded to exemplify themselves as victorious, as a group in power.
01:47:09.680And, of course, what we have against Hamas is a war not only in the physical dimension.
01:47:34.860...ending into Gaza City, now deeming it as a dangerous combat zone.
01:47:39.180Well, that's what the military is saying now.
01:47:40.840We know thousands of Palestinians actually are starting this evacuation.
01:47:44.680But only about 10,000 to 20,000 people have fled so far in recent days.
01:47:49.580There's estimated to be up to 1 million people in this area.
01:47:53.020Is there a possibility the majority of the population won't evacuate?
01:47:56.980And if this does happen, how will this impact IDF operations?
01:48:00.500We can realize that Hamas is making obstacles to prevent the civilians, the unemployed people,
01:48:14.780to go to immigrate from Gaza to a more safe zone.
01:48:19.560Actually, according to all international law of warfare, it is an Israeli obligation before starting the massive fighting to give them the option to go outside.
01:48:39.020And I believe that as long we will gradually make more military pressure, then they will realize that they have no choice but to take themselves and to go outside from Gaza.
01:48:56.860Israel will not really be possible for them to stay in Gaza.
01:49:07.540Now, the IDF and Shin Bet also recovered the bodies of these two hostages in Gaza just last week.
01:49:12.860We don't know many details about this operation and the intelligence that led them there and where they found the bodies.
01:49:19.880But what can you tell us in general about these operations to recover the bodies of hostages like these?
01:49:25.460The details are not important because not only they are secret, but also because what's really important is the fact that with our presence in Gaza,
01:49:42.860and with our insistence to go ahead to fight, we are getting more information and we can really succeeding to come to release more and more hostages.
01:49:54.900So everyone that we're succeeding to find in our own effort, it is a huge achievement.
01:50:01.440And once again, massive protests are still going on in Israel.
01:50:05.900I think that was another big one like a day or two ago with like 100,000 plus people or some shit like that.
01:51:26.640Israel says it has killed the spokesperson of Hamas' armed wing, Abu Obaidah.
01:51:33.100A masked voice since at least 2007, his death marks the loss of one of Hamas' leading figures.
01:51:40.700Obaidah, whose real name according to Israeli military is Hudaifah Al-Kalut, gave his last statement Friday.
01:51:47.140As Israel began the initial stages of a new military offensive in Gaza City, now declared a combat zone.
01:51:55.300Its defense minister confirmed online that Obaidah had been killed in a targeted attack on Saturday, adding it would continue to target top commanders.
01:52:02.920Soon, as the campaign in Gaza intensifies, he will meet many more of his partners in crime.
01:52:08.920A joint IDF and Israeli security agency statement published in local media called him one of Hamas' last remaining senior figures from before its unprecedented attack on southern Israel in 2023.
01:52:22.680Under his command, Hamas' propaganda apparatus was responsible for spreading footage of the atrocities of the October 7th massacre using footage taken by Hamas terrorists.
01:52:34.480Additionally, he was also responsible for distributing incitement videos across the Arab world and among the Palestinian public, encouraging them to commit similar acts of terrorism.
01:52:44.140The spokesperson is the latest of Hamas' top military and political leadership to be assassinated by Israel.
01:52:51.940Its army chief of staff has also vowed to target Hamas figures abroad.
01:58:46.480The third ambush targeted the IDF's 84th Jivati and 401st Armored Brigade.
01:58:52.920Israeli media claimed that the August 29th attack was one of the deadliest since October 2023.
01:59:00.560As Israel plans to intensify its military operations and occupy the Gaza Strip, experts have warned of severe consequences.
01:59:08.780Military strategists have warned that there would be more casualties among the IDF...
01:59:12.580Yeah, because this is the last leg of it.
01:59:14.740And this is probably like the last stronghold for Hamas.
01:59:20.220So this is obviously gonna be a very dangerous operation for these guys.
01:59:23.740If Netanyahu continues with the takeover plan, they have warned that Hamas' guerrilla warfare tactics will be difficult for the IDF to tackle.
01:59:36.980So, yeah, I've heard this as well, that they kidnapped, even though we haven't gotten confirmation.
01:59:42.080But, you know, they're definitely not going to confirm it unless Hamas comes out with a video.
01:59:48.560Because then they'll have to address it.
01:59:51.100Mr. B93 says, is this a video, Lions of Zion?
02:09:07.980We're going to cover Saidi Akhan and everything, uh, as well.
02:09:11.500But, yeah, I think it's time for us to cut the YouTube, bro.
02:09:18.780I'll keep Rumble and Kick a little bit longer.
02:09:20.540But I'm going to cut Rumble and Kick, too.
02:09:21.700Just so y'all know, bro, um, you guys can join the OSS right now with the code 271K at best.
02:09:32.480So, I will stay and Rumble and Kick a little bit longer for you guys because it's not fair that I would just cut the stream on y'all in the middle of this war coverage.
02:09:39.860I do think you guys need to know what the fuck is going on in the Middle East.
02:09:42.340Especially since there's been so much goddamn disinformation.