00:00On the night, the foreign soldiers opened the area of the Bufour.
00:04They were there with pride at the flag of the State of Israel and the flag of the Golanai.
00:11I remind you that in 44 years, this place was a sign for a sign of the Bufour, a hero
00:18of our soldiers,
00:20but also a sign for an amulet in our territory.
00:24Today, we moved to Bufour, we moved to Bufour, we moved to Bufour, we moved to Bufour, and we moved
00:29to Bufour, and we moved to Bufour.
00:32I spoke with the soldiers on the ground on the ground on the 60th, and they said to me, tell
00:36the people of Israel what we are doing here.
00:38The government, the government, doesn't know what we have to do.
00:42And in the beginning of the war, we killed 8,000 from the army of the Hizballah.
00:48Since the last week, it was 3,000.
00:51In the last week, it was 700.
00:54This is more than all of what we did in the second time of the war.
00:58I went to the Hizballah to see the flag of Lebanon.
01:02The forces of us were sent to the Alitani.
01:04They were sent to the land of the Bufour.
01:06They were sent to the Bufour.
01:08And now my suggestion is to see and see the flag of us in the places that were in the
01:14Hizballah.
01:15And the Hizballah is a dramatic change in the country that we are moving.
01:21We have raised the fear.
01:24We are focused, we are working in all the areas.
01:27In Syria, in Gaza, in Lebanon.
01:29We made security measures across our borders to protect our citizens.
01:35On the 6th, I talked with the Makhatim.
01:37They are the Makhatim who are flying around the border.
01:40They are the Makhatim who are flying around the border.
01:42And they said to me,
01:43The Prime Minister, we are making a decision.
01:47We are waiting for the future.
01:50And the Hizballah is on his mind.
01:52And I said to them,
01:54I am with you, the whole army of Israel is with you.
01:57It will take time.
01:58But we will move the security to the eastern citizens.
02:01Exactly as we did to the eastern citizens.
02:05It will take time.
02:06But we will move the direction.
02:15A fortress built by Crusaders 900 years ago,
02:19perched above a cliff above the Latani River.
02:22And as of this weekend, back in Israeli hands for the first time in 26 years.
02:28After days of fierce fighting around the Nabatea area,
02:32Israeli forces have seized control of Beaufort Castle and the surrounding ridge,
02:37roughly nine miles inside Lebanese territory.
02:41The IDF says the operation is focused on establishing control of the Beaufort Bridge
02:46and the Wadi al-Saluki Valley,
02:49dismantling what it describes as Hezbollah command infrastructure
02:52that was used to coordinate attacks on Israeli civilians.
02:57Hezbollah didn't give it up quietly.
02:59They claim to have destroyed an Israeli tank near the castle during the battle.
03:03Lebanese state media reported intense bombardment in the surrounding area
03:08for days before the flag changed hands.
03:11Here's what makes Beaufort different.
03:13From just another hilltop.
03:15Built by Crusader knights in the 12th century,
03:18it sits on a high cliff with commanding views over the Latani River Valley
03:23and deep into southern Lebanon.
03:25Whoever holds it, sees everything, controls everything in range.
03:30Israel held it before, for 18 years, from 1982 to 2000.
03:36That occupation ended with a withdrawal that was widely seen in Lebanon as a Hezbollah victory.
03:43Now, Israel is back.
03:45Beaufort isn't an isolated move.
03:47It's the sharp end of a much larger Israeli advance.
03:51Netanyahu confirmed last Friday that Israeli forces have now crossed the Latani River,
03:57the line that ceasefire agreements have long treated as the boundary Hezbollah must stay behind.
04:03Israel has issued evacuation orders for villages north of the river
04:07and is pushing deeper into territory it hasn't operated in since 2006.
04:12Defense Minister Kotz put it bluntly.
04:15Anyone who threatens Israeli civilians will lose their strategic assets one by one.
04:21Far-right Finance Minister Smotrich went further,
04:24calling for permanent territorial control and threatening that for every drone fired,
04:29buildings in Beirut should fall.
04:32The gloves clearly are off.
04:34Iran is currently in fragile nuclear negotiations with the United States,
04:39and Tehran has insisted any deal must include a ceasefire in Lebanon.
04:44Israel pushing across the Latani and capturing symbolic strongholds could torpedo those talks entirely.
04:52President Trump told Netanyahu last week he supports Israel's freedom of action on all fronts,
04:58including Lebanon, essentially a green light.
05:02But a green light in Lebanon could turn the Iran talks red.
05:06One castle, one river crossing, one chain reaction.
05:11Whether this is a calculated pressure campaign or the opening move of something far larger,
05:16nobody quite knows yet.
05:18But the Latani has been crossed, the castle has fallen,
05:22and the Middle East just got a little more unpredictable.
05:36And India app now.
05:38And India app now.
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