I'm John Batcher with Bill Raggio of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy

he keeps the Long War Journal and a frequent contributed to Long war journal as a Jerusalem post-war

correspondent Seth Fransman also the author of the book October 7th Wars which is up to

date right before Sinuar's death.

We're going to Hezbollah and the north.

The news over the weekend here in the US

was that a drone said to have been launched by

Hezbollah or its agents, came very close or struck at the Prime Minister's

house.

Now we have more drones over the Mediterranean all the time aimed at airports.

Bill you have a question for Seth about Hezbollah.

Yes, Hezbollah has been launching in some days hundreds of rockets at Israel.

Are these coordinated fires by Hezbollah?

Or is it, or do the Israelis view these as random attacks?

I think the recent information is that they do attempt to sometimes coordinate a bit of it. So you might have, for instance, some medium-range rockets fired in the north and then you know drones would be launched at some

point as well so that maybe the air defenses are focused on one thing and the other.

In general we're talking about usually as you said up to 200 rockets a day and several drones.

So in the attack on the Prime Minister's house in Kissaria, the drone obviously penetrated somehow. I think one other was intercepted.

And there was a drone attack on a training base nearby, not so far from there, a week ago,

in which four soldiers were killed and 60 were injured and that again

involved several drones in which two were intercepted and one kind of got lost

and then it of course ran into this base.

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