Anshel Pfeffer

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205 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 4 Aug

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Missing peace: will Israel imperil Iran deal? · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

It has been empty now for a while and even though it was very dark there you could see that many of the buildings have been destroyed by Israeli airstrikes.

There's no electricity, but there was light in an Israeli command post and in the underground location where we were taken.

Run about thirty meters under the centre of the village.

There's this long and very wide tunnel, which from what we were shown there was used as a factory or an assembly line for building killer drones.

I've been in quite a few tunnels over the last two and a half years under Lebanon and under the Gaza Strip.

I think this was certainly the widest.

most well constructed tunnel I've seen in these wars so far.

And from what we were shown there, just the piles and piles of dozens of sets of triangular wings, long cigar shaped fuselages and cylindrical explosive charges, it was clear that this place was being used to assemble kits of drones, dozens and dozens of them.

which were then to be launched from rails in other parts of the village towards Israel.

According to Israeli intelligence back in

Twenty four some of these drones hit Israeli bases, killing soldiers, and also hit

Been a minutenows seaside villa as well.

And embed with the idea if it's usually something that you're there in a couple of hours from your home or office and spend a few hours out in the field and then you're back again.

So it's something very short.

You come, you meet the unit, there's the issue of the convoy, and most of the convoys into the battlefields of Gaza or South Lebanon are relatively short, about twenty or thirty minutes, and you're in but that's sort of a tense moment when

Your

driving on rather unsecured roads.

And usually they want to show you something.

There's obviously a PR or propaganda purpose for these visits.

In this case, they wanted to show this drone factory that they had discovered a few days earlier to make the point that Hezbollah, with Iran's support, still has a very significant military presence in southern Lebanon, which is a point that Israel's been trying to make again

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