I'm John Batcher, Bill Rajo, senior fellow for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, keeping the Long War Journal, and we're moving toward Lebanon right along the border.

Thanks to David Diyud, reporting for FDD and for the Long War Journal. I read from an entry from February 9th earlier this month.

At 3.22 p.m., Lebanon reported that an Israeli quadcopter dropped stunned

explosives near two young men who were located in Aeta Ash Shab's cemetery. Later, an IDF sniper

positioned inside Israel, targeted an individual while he was near the municipality building of

Ata Ash Shab, one kilometer away from the Israeli position. I stopped there. David, a very good

evening to you. Quadcopters and stun brigade. This is new information that I have about the battle with Lebanon rolling into the ceasefire

stage. How long of the quadcopters been part of the arsenal and what is the thinking about

quadcopters and stern brigades? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Well, they've been there

since November 28th of 2024, the day the ceasefire

went into effect. And what the Israelis are doing along the frontier, right, there's not

a official border between Israel and Lebanon, is engaging in policing operations.

What the Israelis, there's the five positions the Israelis have maintained in South Lebanon, daily operations in

South Lebanon along this frontier area. And what this is meant to do is to deter and prevent

Hezbollah from returning to the border area, deter and prevent any suspicious activity from

occurring on the border area, and create an environment whereby the residents of northern Israel,

100,000 plus of whom evacuated from the border during the area for fear of an October 7th-style

attack coming from Lebanon, given that October 7th, the way that Hamas conducted this attack was

created by Hezbollah, prevent this fear, right? Get rid of this fear among

these residents and allow them to return home in peace, right? I think the idea is that when an

Israeli resident returns north, when they look northward, what they see now no longer is, you know,

threatening billboards in poorly Google translated Hebrew or Hezbollah

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