Veteran Arab Journalist Ghassan Ben Jeddo on the 'Legendary' Battle of Maroun Al-Ras - 2006 War between Hezbollah and Israel, November 2013. (With English Subtitles)
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00:00 On that day, it was also the fifth day, and yet the resistance was steadfast in Marouna
00:07 al-Ras.
00:08 What does Marouna al-Ras mean to the Arab brothers?
00:10 The Lebanese may know it.
00:11 Perhaps also a part of the Lebanese does not know Marouna al-Ras.
00:14 Now they may know it.
00:16 Marouna al-Ras is a small village on the borders with occupied Palestine.
00:20 It was assumed that the Israeli forces could enter it in an hour.
00:24 If the matter lasted five hours, I mean five minutes, it was assumed that the Israeli forces
00:30 could not cross the hill in five days.
00:33 There were less than 15 fighters from the Lebanese resistance.
00:38 Despite this, they confronted and fought against the Israeli forces.
00:42 The Israelis thought that there were at least a hundred fighters who confronted them and
00:47 fought against them, otherwise Marouna al-Ras could not have remained steadfast in that way.
00:51 But what we also discovered at that time was that the media war began between the
00:56 satellite channels and the news agencies.
00:58 At that time, the Israelis were trying to show how they were advancing and entering.
01:02 The images that were broadcast by the news agencies in general and the satellite channels
01:06 were their images on the other hill, on the opposite side of Marouna al-Ras, in occupied
01:10 Palestine.
01:11 But they were lying.
01:13 Marouna al-Ras did not enter at that moment at all.
01:15 After five days, less than 15, and I think that only two witnesses were martyred, and
01:20 then those fighters were dragged to Bint Jbeil.
01:23 One of the myths that confirms how the resistance was able to confront with all the perseverance
01:29 and with all the strength in Marouna al-Ras for five days and in the Hill on the fifth day,
01:33 the Israeli forces were not able to cross the first hill, a few meters from the people's
01:39 home, that small town, which is about 100 meters away from where the operation of the
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