• Published 13:26 15.10.09
  • Latest update 12:04 02.11.09

Hezbollah vs. Israel: Who has 'real' video of Lebanon blast site?

Group denounces IDF video of militants removing arms from site as lie, airs clip detailing 'true events.'

By Jack Khoury and The Associated Press Tags: Hezbollah Lebanon Israel news IDF

Hezbollah on Thursday broadcast a video detailing the "true events" surrounding the site of an explosion in south Lebanon on Monday, after the Israel Defense Forces released footage it said proved the site was an arms cache.

The Lebanese militant organization's video, aired on its Al-Manar TV and other local stations, shows two persons loading what appears to be a steel garage door onto a white covered pickup truck in front of the building where the blast allegedly occurred.

The militant group said the truck was being used to take out debris from the garage.

The IDF video was shot by a drone in the area of the explosion. The army said the grainy, black and white video showed Hezbollah operatives sealing off the explosion site, recovering rockets from the home and driving them away in two covered trucks.

Hezbollah denounced the video as a fabrication by Israel.

The Lebanese military and Hezbollah said the explosion Monday in the village of Tayr Filsay, near the southern port city of Tyre, left one person wounded.

But Lebanese sources said Monday that five people were killed in the blast, including the Hezbollah official, Saeed Nasser, and his son.

Meanwhile, a Lebanese MP has said that the IDF video of the weapons cache is proof that Israel is still spying on his country, and constitutes a violation of the United Nations resolution that ended the war. The lawmaker called for Lebanon to submit a formal complaint on the matter to the UN.

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  • 23. 0 0
    Fair's fair
    • Colin Wright
    • 18.10.09
    • 10:08

    When Israel can explain how its drones can legally be over Lebanon, we can ask Hezbollah what it is doing with what appear to be weapons. Generally, if one country violates the territory of another, the issue is not what they find, but the violation itself.

  • 22. 0 0
    The Israeli footage and Hezbollah footage - DIFFERENT
    • SDHD
    • 15.10.09
    • 20:09

    The Hezbollah footage and Israeli footage are completely different and ARE NOT showing the same thing by any stretch of the imagination. In the Israeli footage, Hezbollah is clearly walking an elongated white object from one location onto a truck. They ARE NOT loading it from an adjacent platform onto a truck. This footage is of two completely different events in the first place. They in no way resemble one another. Where is Hezbollah's footage of the elongated object being WALKED from one location onto the truck?

  • 21. 0 0
    The Atomic Garage door
    • Falafel
    • 15.10.09
    • 19:42

    In easy operated hand held digital cameras in every phone. Media has taken a new turn into the future, you tube has footage of many many Israeli human rights violations reported by Betsalem the Israeli human right organization. Yes Hizbo has weapons stocked up in south Lebanon but where are those weapons. that proves that hizbo did not only win the military war against Israel but they won the intelligence and propaganda war laced with a physiological factor and this video is witness with that, give us peace why does Israel want to wage war. falafel Taza

  • 20. 0 0
    Richard Pearce
    • vik
    • 15.10.09
    • 18:50

    Lets assume you are correct and Hez recorded the removal of garbage becuase they thought they would be accused of doing wrong. Was this the only garbage pick up being filmed? Release other video taken the same day of garbage removal. Get real, some film school student was hired to recreated a garbage pickup scene to match what IAF filmed from the sky.

  • 19. 0 0
    Some questions answered
    • Richard Pearce
    • 15.10.09
    • 18:25

    Read the comments, then watched the clip, and will now propose answers to some of the questions and comments. Why film the removal of debris? Well, if I had a pretty good idea that I was going to be accused of doing something nefarious when I was in fact doing something innocuous, you can be sure I'd make as good a record as I could of what I was doing. As for the sound quality, I've done sound work in studio and from live recordings. They've cleaned up the sound through the use of filters and an equalizer (I think they boasted the high end a little more than I would have, but then again I hear a little more in that range than most), but unless they have some foley artists who put the pro's to shame, that was live sound.

  • 18. 0 0
    Hezbollah is learning how to play the PR game
    • Bloodyscot
    • 15.10.09
    • 18:14

    After the last explosion I think Hezbollah knew Israel would try the PR game with this one and they were ready. The only thing these videos show is that bothsides play abit loose with the rules. I think Israel is more worried about Hezbollah right now than Iran, since it would need to be weaken before any attack on Iran. The UN may want to increase it forces soon or start pulling them out. I surprised that they are not shooting down the drones, the US already has a system to quickly bring them down, I sure Russia has one or soon will.

  • 17. 0 0
    Hezbollah
    • Aref
    • 15.10.09
    • 18:09

    Those people record everything you can imagine.

  • 16. 0 0
    IDF should upload the drone video to Youtube
    • better than WMV
    • 15.10.09
    • 18:07

  • 15. 0 0
    Murray - GET REAL
    • Israeli
    • 15.10.09
    • 17:47

    That wasn't just any garage door! It was a newly fabricated state of the art Al Aqhbar-7 garage door designed by the famed American artist Jesse Yousef Jackson inscribed with numerous statements from the renowned Muslim Imam Jimmy ibn Carter and inscribed with pictures of hundreds of virgin volunteers for the Shaheeds. It is fully automated with an IP link allowing the Ayatollahs perpetual access as proscribed by abu Goldstone. It is a valuable piece of art. OF COURSE they would tape it. It is a remarkable piece of Islamic art in the making. Apologize now!

  • 14. 0 0
    Amazing sound...
    • Anon
    • 15.10.09
    • 17:39

    Speaking as both an actor in both film and theater, I must complement them on their sound it is almost as if the microphone is right next to the truck... quite an achivment considering the distance that the camera is place, this can only mean that either they have planted a boom mike/directional mic in the area (not likly to film the removal of a garage door) or this whole film is staged, not to mension that the actors/personal seem to be a bit rehersed. Overall looking at this clip I can only conclude it was staged and badly at that, my prof. would only give this a 70 and that would be if he was in a merciful mood Bad acting guys, try again and make it real

  • 13. 0 0
    I suppose your view on who has the right video
    • Chris Linthwaite
    • 15.10.09
    • 17:35

    depends on whose side you are on. Personally I believe they are both probably faked. As I am not an expert in interpreting military survelliance videos, and was not present when Hezbollah videoed their version of events. What we are seeing is a propaganda war in which Israel is trying to get Unifil to be more proactive and Hezbollah are trying to reassure UNIFIL that there is nothing untoward going on. Very entertaining though.

  • 12. 0 0
    lol Since when does the army do cleanups?
    • josh
    • 15.10.09
    • 17:08

    lol i guess there were some budget cuts in Hezbollah, and maybe they needed to get some contracts on the side to compensate, either that or this explosion had def. something to do with them.

  • 11. 0 0
    I think what peeves Israel the most
    • Highly amused
    • 15.10.09
    • 17:08

    I think what peeves Israel the most is that they're being played at their own game. This one is called "anything you can fake, I can fake better." And, also in true Israeli style, the attention is now deflected away from the real issue. Instead of discussing the weapons, the debate now centers on who has the real video. I think this round goes to Hezbollah.

  • 10. 0 0
    the best way to find out if a missile is sent to israel
    • tea man
    • 15.10.09
    • 16:55

    they should have tagged the door and next time a door land in haifa israel should say to the world aha aha we told you so any way doors can be transformed into missiles but the leak if you get my drift

  • 9. 0 0
    When will these Orwellian flying drones be unleashed on all of us
    • jim the mechanic
    • 15.10.09
    • 16:14

    Israels never ending war and the need for spy,s and surveillance will subjugate us all! This "war" on terror are the last nails in the coffin for any possibility of real freedom that following generations will pay the price and have to live under. ....who new Israel would be the scientific testing grounds for the future 1984?

  • 8. 0 0
    Hezbollah's Refutation
    • Bear's
    • 15.10.09
    • 16:13

    This staged video undermines the "Hezbollah Story" and in no way refutes the Israeli video.

  • 7. 0 0
    Israel lies very frequently, experience.
    • Shadi
    • 15.10.09
    • 15:50

    Israel made it look as if UNRWA trucks were used for rockets... as to get rid of its then head, angry for his telling truth about Israeli crimes.

  • 6. 0 0
    food for thought. remember the clip by IDF in GAZA war shot by
    • socalmaverick
    • 15.10.09
    • 15:34

    a drone where it allegedly showed Hamas members moving rockets into a truck. then the IDF bombed them. B'Tselem later showed the site where it was actually bottled gas warehouse and those people were killed for false positive and misinterpretation of the footage. go to B'Tselem's page and see for yourself

  • 5. 0 0
    Uniformed Garbage Collectors
    • Michael
    • 15.10.09
    • 14:51

    The battle is surely lost! If Israel is battling terrorists who have enough money, not only to film their rubbish collectors, but also to give them uniforms, then we really are in trouble. What puzzles me is why they are in army fatigues? Must have got them from a local army surplus store!

  • 4. 0 0
    Who videos random people clearing rubbish?
    • Matt
    • 15.10.09
    • 14:23

    What possible reason could some random Lebanese have to set up a video camera to record people moving rubbish on to a truck?

  • 3. 0 0
    Why would Hezbollah tape the removal of a garage door? :o)
    • Murray of Montreal
    • 15.10.09
    • 14:20

    Rest assured that Silvienne, etc will believe the Hezbollah video.

  • 2. 0 0
    A resolution against the eye in the sky?
    • Ziv
    • 15.10.09
    • 14:18

    Hilarious! Complain to the UN that Israel is keeping an eye on them.. yeah, and for no reason at all as we can see.. Twist it 180 degrees and the UN has already lost eye for the truth.

  • 1. 0 0
    Film by Hizzballah a total fabrication
    • r
    • 15.10.09
    • 14:11

    How ridiculous that people would belive hiz's film clip