I'm John Batchel with Thethe's McCutter, and we're welcoming Malcolm

online reporting on the region. Thadis,

you have a question.

Yes, Malcolm, the IDF is in Lebanon.

What is the progress there?

Well, they're just really starting to go in in depth.

They are pushing in troops.

They've called up reserves because the government of Lebanon is clearly not able, even though they have verbally

attacked in ways that they had not before, and even called their, the Hezbole activity is illegal,

but they don't have the power or the will to exercise whatever power they have to control

them.

Hezbollah used the opportunity to reorganize, and once the war started, and not immediately,

but they started firing, and now they have fired hundreds of missiles, 150 in a single

day against Israel's north.

It's almost impossible to cope with that kind of number.

And so they've done damage in the north.

Israel has gone in, and they have deployed, Hamas has redeployed in various sections

of the north.

It's infantry units, the Radoan continue to operate, although we see in Iran some defections.

And John, you know, that's always the first thing we look for.

If IFC defections, they are beginning.

Here we've seen also in Lebanon defections from the, from the Hezbollah forces.

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