Well, hi everyone, welcome on over to another episode to Speak the Truth podcast, I'm your host, Matt Tardio.

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Now, within the last 24-ish hours, we've seen a lot of explosions taking place over inside Lebanon.

Israel has done a pretty dang good job taking out a bunch of these Hezbollah fighters.

And how good of a job have they done?

You asked?

Well, wouldn't you know it?

I happen to have some up-to-date figures for you.

So according to this article from Reuters, which happens to be titled Hezbollah,

handheld radios detonate across Lebanon. This is coming out from this afternoon. It says

Lebanon's health ministry said that 14 people have been killed and 450 people injured on Wednesday while the death toll from

Tuesday explosions rose to 12 including two children with nearly 3,000 injured.

So that put the number right around 3,500 injured. So that put the number right around 3,500 injured with only two civilian casualties, it would look like, at least according to my count.

So let's bring that. I mean, those are reasonable civilian casualties then being children so I think that's a fair assessment

And we're gonna actually talk about why that number is so low number one and what this actually means for the Israeli military, because truthfully, it

looks like they're about to go into Lebanon.

We can talk about all that and a little bit more going throughout this episode.

Now, surprisingly enough, it wasn't just Hezbollah that ended up getting injured

in the attack. No, no, no, for some reason, a ransom ambassador to Lebanon also happened to have

a Hezbollah pager attached pretty close to his face, which means he likely picked it up to read a message when it

detonated, taken out one of his eyes, and severely injuring him. Now, apparently he is pretty much

blind and they have medevacked him out to Iran. So he's left Lebanon and they are now confirming

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