🇮🇱🇱🇧 70,000 troops. 110 days of fighting. For all that, Israel controls about a quarter of South Lebanon.

Elijah Magnier has spent over 35 years reporting from the world's worst conflict zones, and few have witnessed the realities of modern warfare so closely.

He broke down the human cost of Israel's occupation for me:

Based on Israel's own casualty figures, he calculates roughly 13 to 15 Israeli soldiers killed or wounded every single day of this campaign.

Hezbollah isn't even trying to stop Israel's advance anymore, he says. It's letting them in, then bleeding them out, "a real feast," in his words.

And his warning for Iran: don't take the bait.

Netanyahu WANTS Iran to resume the war, because without someone to fight, "he's going to die politically."

Enjoy my conversation with @ejmalrai.